Jim Crow

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• SOURCE: New Orleans Public Radio
  6/1/2020
  

  Q&A: Historian Andrew Kahrl On The Segregation History Of Lincoln Beach And Plans To Reopen It

  The long-shuttered African American beach was created to preserve segregation in New Orleans.

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• SOURCE: Crosscut
  5/25/2020
  

  From Civil Rights to COVID-19: ‘Without Truth, You Don’t Have Justice’

  Investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell has deepened the public memory of the Civil Rights Era. His reporting offers important lessons for today.

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• 5/24/2020
  

  Citizen’s Arrest: Racist at its Roots

  by Alan J. Singer

  Georgia's Citizens's Arrest law has always been used to enable and support white supremacy since its enactment during the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  5/20/2020
  

  Exclusive First Look at New Photograph of Blues Legend Robert Johnson

  Even if he didn’t sell his soul at the Crossroads, the massively influential Mississippi guitarist remains shrouded in mystery. An upcoming memoir from his 94-year-old stepsister brings new depth to Johnson’s mythos—and the third verified picture of him in existence.

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• SOURCE: Library of Congress
  5/18/2020
  

  May 18, 1896: Plessy v. Ferguson Decided

  On May 18, 1896 the Supreme Court's decision validated the "separate but equal" principle that was used to justify racial apartheid in the United States.

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• SOURCE: Equal Justice Initiative
  5/4/2020
  

  Ida B. Wells Honored with Posthumous Pulitzer

  Ida B. Wells's pioneering role as a journalist on the front lines of struggle against racist terrorism at the nadir of American race relations was posthumously recognized with a Pulitzer Prize yesterday. 

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• 5/3/2020
  

  Healing And Reconciling History 100 Years After the Elaine Race Massacre

  by J. Chester Johnson

  The author's realization that his beloved grandfather had participated in a racist massacre in Elaine, Arkansas led him to an unlikely journey of reconciliation with a descendent of one of the victims of that campaign of terror, and an understanding of the need for honesty about how heritage can excuse racism.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  4/27/2020
  

  $500,000 Federal Grant Awarded to Former “Americus Colored Hospital”

  The National Park Service and Historic Preservation Fund awarded the grant to an Americus preservation group to create a new civil rights museum in the original building of a Jim Crow-era hospital that served the black population of southwest Georgia.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/30/2020
  

  Records in 1946 Lynching Case Must Remain Sealed, Court Rules

  No one was ever charged in the killing of two black couples by a group of white men in rural Georgia, known as the Moore’s Ford lynchings.

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• 3/22/2020
  

  Plots Against America?: Jim Crow was Homegrown Fascism

  by Guy Lancaster

  HBO’s prestige adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2004 novel The Plot Against America makes it worthwhile to examine whether fascism is really so alien to the United States as many wish to believe.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/13/2020
  

  A White Republican Mayor Seeks the Truth about Tulsa’s Race Massacre a Century Ago

  Bynum, a white Republican in deeply red Oklahoma, said he would not back down from trying to find answers to what happened.

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• 3/1/2020
  

  When Anti-Lynching Law Was a Tool of Oppression

  by Guy Lancaster

  Arkansas used its ostensible “anti-lynching” law to transform the “bad violence” of the mob into the “good violence” of the state, to transform lynching into officially sanctioned execution.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/19/20
  

  When Jim Crow Reigned Amid the Rubble of Nazi Germany

  by Alexis Clark

  Thousands of African-American troops were sent to a defeated Germany to promote democracy, even as they were confined to the social order of Jim Crow.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/10/10
  

  Lynching preachers: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence

  by Malcolm Brian Foley

  Religion was no barrier for these white murderers, as I’ve discovered in my research on Christianity and lynch mobs in the Reconstruction-era South. White preachers incited racial violence, joined the Ku Klux Klan and lynched black people.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/4/20
  

  Historians Nathan Connolly and Beryl Satter Interviewed On Housing Discrimination in the Jim Crow US and The Case for Reparations

  Nathan Connolly is the Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and Beryl Satter is Professor of History at Rutgers University.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/17/20
  

  The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration’

  by Michelle Alexander

  From mass incarceration to mass deportation, our nation remains in deep denial.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/1/19
  

  Mississippi governor’s race taking place under Jim Crow-era rules after judge refuses to block them

  by Gideon Cohn-Postar

  A federal judge ruled on Nov. 1 that he would not stop Mississippi voters from electing a governor on Tuesday under an old, Jim Crow-era election law that a civil rights lawsuit argues perpetuates “white supremacy” and violates the principle of “one-person, one-vote.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/20/19
  

  The Jim Crow Car

  The North, the South and the forgotten origins of racial separation.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/8/19
  

  Eric Foner Reviews "Separate" by Steve Luxenberg

  by Eric Foner

  '“Separate' reminds us that our history is not simply a narrative of greater and greater freedom."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/25/19
  

  The Green Book’s Black History

  by Brent Staples

  Lessons from the Jim Crow-era travel guide for African-American elites.