Jim Crow laws, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, made it perfectly legal to discriminate against a person based on the color of their skin. Into the 1960s, a Black or Latino ...

Poll taxes were usury and random. And none of it was applied to whites, who were exempted or “grandfathered” by rules that allowed even illiterates or tax dodgers to vote if they could trace ...

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Jim Crow was not the problem. Jim Crow was meant to be the solution. The problem was Rutherford B. Hayes winning the Electoral College but losing the popular vote in 1876. To get over the hump ...

Jim Crow was not the problem. Jim Crow was meant to be the solution. The problem was Rutherford B. Hayes winning the electoral college but losing the popular vote in 1876. To get over the hump ...

During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative – Black people have always been conservative minded – but more Black people voted conservatively,” he said.

The reach of Jim Crow extended far beyond physical segregation. Literacy tests and poll taxes were used to disenfranchise Black voters, effectively stripping them of political participation.

Byron Donalds expresses nostalgia for the Jim Crow era, when ‘the Black family was together’ The Trump surrogate's comments, made during a Black voter outreach event in Philadelphia, sparked ...

These Jim Crow-era laws included a lifetime voting ban on any Mississippi resident convicted of certain felonies. That lifetime ban is still in effect in the state today, more than 130 years later.

In the early 1900s, changes in state election laws, including the introduction of the poll tax, effectively disenfranchised most Black voters and many poor whites as well.

But the largest wave of laws was created after the Civil War in the same decade as poll taxes and other Jim Crow laws designed to suppress the votes of Black people in the U.S. Many of these laws were ...