Jim Crow

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/20/2022
  

  Governors DeSantis and Abbott Borrow from the Jim Crow Playbook

  by Greta de Jong

  "Immigration scholars have noted how U.S. foreign policies contributed to the poverty and violence in Central and South America that migrants are fleeing. Yet rather than acknowledge this – along with assuming the moral responsibilities it entails – some GOP leaders denigrate and dehumanize refugees to win support from voters."

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  8/28/2022
  

  Recovering the Core Radicalism of the Civil Rights Movement: An Interview with Glenda Gilmore

  by Robert Greene II

  Cold war histories of civil rights have obscured the key role of communists and other radicals in establishing the economic demands of the movement and the practice of interracial mobilization. 

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  8/24/2022
  

  Court Upholds Mississippi's 1890 Jim Crow Voting Law

  The framers of the state's voting laws were explicit in their intention to use the law to strip as many Black men of their right to vote as possible. A federal court recently ruled that the law, amended with nominally color-blind language, is acceptable. 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  8/3/2022
  

  Can 500 Dinner Discussions Bring Atlantans to Recognition and Reconciliation over the 1906 Race Massacre?

  Local activists seek to overcome a local pattern of forgetting of the events of 1906, a collective amnesia supported by the city's black and white leaders who have favored the image of a harmonious city as part of a good business climate. 

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• 7/31/2022
  

  Weaponizing Bad-Faith History is a Conservative Tradition from Jim Crow to Alito

  by Charles J. Holden

  "Conservatives’ invocations of history often mixed wishful thinking about the past with bad faith in interpreting it. And it was always done with the present-minded purpose of maintaining elite white male rule, especially on matters of race."

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• 6/5/2022
  

  Is the Republican Party Willing to Purge its Extremists?

  by Jeff Kolnick

  Beginning in the 1920s, the Democratic Party began the long, difficult, and politically costly process of dissociation from white supremacy. Do today's Republicans who claim to reject extremism have the courage to do the same?

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• 6/5/2022
  

  The Dobbs Decision Punctures the Supreme Court's Sacred Mythology

  by Alan J. Singer

  The Supreme Court uses a myth of its own impartiality to justify a legacy of judicial review that is tainted by its service to slavery and Jim Crow. 

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• SOURCE: Codastory
  3/30/2022
  

  Germany's Racial Reckoning Offers Warnings for US

  "Seen from an American perspective, Germany is often portrayed as the wise and capable professor of remembrance; the U.S its difficult student."

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• SOURCE: Oxford American
  3/22/2022
  

  Questing for the Past

  by Katherine Churchill

  A nameplate in an 1864 edition of Gawain and the Green Knight led the author to discover the connections between a mythic medieval past and the Lost Cause ideology of Jim Crow Virginia. 

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• SOURCE: PBS News Hour
  3/19/2022
  

  Will Alabama Expunge White Supremacist Language that Remains in its Constitution?

  Alabama's 1901 constitution was written expressly to enshrine white supremacy. Voters will have the chance to approve changes to its language by a ballot referendum this fall. 

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• SOURCE: AL.com
  1/16/2022
  

  Ambushed in Eufaula: Alabama's Forgotten Racist Massacre

  In 1874 a group of Black Republicans who came to the town of Eufaula to vote were ambushed by white mobs, part of the Democratic overthrow of Reconstruction and a step toward reestablishing white supremacy in the state.

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• SOURCE: AL.com
  1/12/2022
  

  Alabama's Capitol is a Crime Scene, with a 120 Year Coverup

  The Alabama Capitol in Montgomery was the first seat of the Confederate government and the place where white Democrats ratified a Jim Crow constitution in 1901. You'd learn little of this by touring the museum-like building. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  1/5/2022
  

  Homer Plessy's Posthumous Pardon Finally Recognizes His Heroism

  by Keisha N. Blain

  "The decision to pardon Plessy and finally clear his record are the culmination of efforts by Keith Plessy, the great-great-grandson of Homer Plessy’s cousin, and Phoebe Ferguson, the great-great-granddaughter of John H. Ferguson, the Louisiana judge who upheld the state's Separate Car Act."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/5/2021
  

  Ghosts of Mississippi

  by Charles M. Blow

  The Times columnist argues that the oral arguments in the SCOTUS abortion case recall the bitter history of disenfranchisement in Mississippi, and the subsequent decades when rights were stripped away from Mississippians without democratic process.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/12/2021
  

  Louisiana Governor to Decide Posthumous Pardon for Homer Plessy

  Louisiana's Avery C. Alexander Act, named for a longtime state House member, calls for pardoning individuals who were convicted of violating laws establishing segregation or discrimination, but has seldom been invoked to do so. 

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• SOURCE: KUT
  10/28/2021
  

  Structural Racism Hinders Efforts to Preserve History of Texas "Freedom Colonies"

  Dr. Andrea Roberts of the Texas Freedom Colonies Project says that the history of Black settlements during Reconstruction and Jim Crow is hindered by rules about what sites qualify as "historic."  

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  9/1/2021
  

  Journalist William Huie Concealed Lynchers In Emmett Till Case And Got Away With It

  The commonly-know story of Emmett Till's lynching has long been distorted because a journalist who reported the accounts of two acquitted killers had written out other conspirators from the story for legal reasons. 

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• SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
  9/1/2021
  

  The Last House in Historic Rosewood, Florida May Become a Museum

  “It’s a place that needs to be remembered,” said Lizzie Jenkins, 82, whose aunt escaped the massacre. “That house is part of who I am.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/28/2021
  

  The "Leesburg Stockade Girls" Locked Up in Georgia in 1963

  15 girls aged 12-15 were locked up in appalling conditions, for 45 days or more, and often without their families' knowledge, in southwest Georgia in 1936. This is their story.

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  8/19/2021
  

  Off Main Street: Black Space, Agency, And Community Building In The Jim Crow South

  by Kirin Makker

  Nostalgic references to "Main Street" are common today, but conceal the racially exclusionary nature of both business ownership and consumption in American history.