Jim Crow

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/24/2020
  

  How to Steal an Election

  by Jon Grinspan

  Many of our election rules date from that moment, around 1900, when Americans redirected their “love of smart dealings” toward tightening up electoral systems, rather than finding ways around them.  

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/22/2020
  

  The Supreme Court Is Helping Republicans Rig Elections

  by Adam Serwer

  Historian Lawrence Goldstone supports the argument that today's Roberts Court is continuing the jurisprudence of the post-Reconstruction era by denying the racism of restrictions on voting even as nonwhite voters are disenfranchised. 

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• SOURCE: Law.com
  10/19/2020
  

  US Justices Won't Take Case Over 1946 Georgia Lynching Records

  The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a Circuit Court decision that would have allowed access to the grand jury records of the Moore's Ford Lynchings, the unpunished murder of four Black Georgians in 1946. 

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• 10/04/2020
  

  A Personal Encounter with White Supremacy

  by Robert Huddleston

  A lynching in the author's Missouri hometown in 1936 demonstrates the danger of white acquiescence to prejudice and racism. 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  8/21/2020
  

  Historian Eric Foner: Broken Promises Of Reconstruction Relevant To Today's Racial Justice Movement

  "Our society has never allowed African Americans to accumulate money and assets the way white families have,” Foner said.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/18/2020
  

  ‘Pitchfork Ben’ and the Jim Crow South Got Away with the Disenfranchisement of Voters. Will Trump?

  In order to win, Trump "must find a way to reduce the number of anti-Trump voters who can actually cast a ballot," writes columnist Colbert I. King.

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• SOURCE: The Marshall Project
  7/29/2020
  

  Will The Reckoning Over Racist Names Include These Prisons?

  Historians including Robert Perkinson and Monica Muñoz Martinez discuss the impact of having today's cruelly punitive prisons named for racist figures of the Jim Crow era.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  7/11/2020
  

  “Do You Think You’re Not Involved?” The Racial Reckoning of “Blood at the Root”

  A charge of rape north of Atlanta in 1912 led not only to a lynching but to a violent and total purge of African Americans from Forsyth County that lasted generations. Patrick Phillips's Blood at the Root examines the purge and its legacy.

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• SOURCE: Arkansas Democrat & Gazette
  7/12/2020
  

  Arkansas History Books Carried Rebel Slant

  Arkansas historians Kenneth Barnes and Carl H. Moneyhon discuss the political influence of Confederate sympathizers and white supremacy over the content of history books in the state. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  7/14/2020
  

  How Woodrow Wilson Tried to Reverse Black American Progress

  Historian Eric S. Yellin discusses the impact of Wilson's decision to impose segregation on federal employment, a major blow to black aspirations. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  6/22/2020
  

  American Fascism: It Has Happened Here

  by Sarah Churchwell

  A cultural historian of the American right argues that efforts to trace American allegiance to European fascist movements miss the point. There are American traditions of racial dictatorship, strident nationalism and populist demagoguery that have come close to converging in a homegrown form of fascism. 

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• SOURCE: KXAN
  6/15/2020
  

  Calls to End ‘Eyes of Texas’ Draw Focus to Professor’s Lessons on UT’s Racial History

  UT Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies Edmund T. Gordon explains how the university's spirit song is tied to Robert E. Lee.

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• 6/7/2020
  

  Excerpt: Routine Dehumanization Under Jim Crow Policing

  by Kevin Shird

  Police in Jim Crow Alabama offered two kinds of outreach to schools: an "Officer Friendly" visit to white children, and traumatizing and intimidating threats of incarceration to black children.

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• 6/7/2020
  

  "I Imagine Everything Happened on Beale Street": Remembering Memphis in "Brother Robert"

  by Annye C. Anderson and Preston Lauterbach

  In an excerpt from the new book Brother Robert, Annye Anderson, sister of blues legend Robert Johnson, describes time spent with Johnson in Memphis, and the trends in music, movies, and black politics that shaped Johnson's personality as well as his innovative music.

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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.