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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 ...
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.
In 1901 and 1902, the white Democratic majority in Virginia held a constitutional convention to enshrine Jim Crow laws in the state constitution, including a poll tax, literacy tests and a ...
The delayed freedom of Texas slaves reveals much about the fragile nature of legal authority when confronted by entrenched ...
Courts have recognized a “private right of action” in the Voting Rights Act since the law’s inception. In 1966, a dispute ...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s plan to give $400 million in state funds to historically underserved communities isn’t sitting well ...
Claims that no progress on racial equity has been made in the eight decades since Opal Lee graduated from I.M. Terrell are ...
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston announcing the enforcement of ...
“It is my duty to honor them and my grandmother, Johnnie Mae McKamey (married last name Hardin), who was an heir of most of ...
The exhibit also arrives at a time when "Jim Crow"-type images and associations are being examined in creative and provocative ways by African-American artists, such as Ryan Coogler, in his hit ...