Jim Crow

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/6/2021
  

  If It’s Not Jim Crow, What Is It?

  by Jamelle Bouie

  NYT Columnist Jamelle Bouie relies on the historical writing of J. Morgan Kousser, who showed that disenfranchisement after 1877 affected African American and poor white southerners, was implemented through color-blind means, and had partisan, rather than simply racial, goals. But it was still Jim Crow, and the comparison to Georgia's new law is fair and valid. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  3/17/2021
  

  The South's Jim Crow Barriers to Voting Rights are Going National

  Columnist Hayes Brown says that it's only fitting that new Jim Crow-style voting restrictions are a national phenomenon; Thomas Rice, the minstrelsy performer who invented the Jim Crow character was a New Yorker who successfully peddled anti-Black caricature across the nation. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg Equality
  3/11/2021
  

  My Family’s Long-Gone Texas Land Shows How Black Wealth Is Won and Lost

  by Jacqueline Simmons

  A host of the Pay Check podcast introduces a new season that will examine her family's history of landholding in Texas as a lens on the historical roots of the black-white wealth gap. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/11/2021
  

  The Lynching That Black Chattanooga Never Forgot Takes Center Stage Downtown

  "Even as the bridge became a central gathering place of the city, some Black Chattanoogans who know its history have refused to cross it."

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  2/17/2021
  

  He Risked His Life Filming A Mississippi Senator's Plantation In 1964

  Senator James Eastland of Mississippi justified his segregationist politics with paternalism. Conditions on his family's plantation showed otherwise. 

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  2/19/2021
  

  A Look Inside the Green Book, Which Guided Black Travelers Through a Segregated and Hostile America

  UCLA historian Scot Brown calls the "Green Book" a "Black GPS" for the Jim Crow era in an overview of the publication that helped African Americans exercise the freedom to travel. 

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• SOURCE: Spectrum One News
  1/26/2021
  

  Website Documents Over 700 Lynchings in Texas

  Jeff Littlejohn of Sam Houston State University has launched a website to make accessible information about more than 700 documented lynchings in the state of Texas. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  1/4/2021
  

  The Bravery of William Winter

  by Stuart Stevens

  Former Mississippi Governor William Winter should be remembered for facing down extremists and advancing a moderate vision of change in Mississippi that centered on education. He died at 97 on December 18. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/22/2020
  

  The Latest Chapter in Mississippi’s Long History of Squelching Anti-Racist Activism

  by William Sturkey

  The silencing of journalists and academics has always been integral to the regime of white supremacy in Mississippi. Now that new challenges are emerging to that regime, attacks on academic freedom, including the firing of historian Garrett Felber, have resurfaced.

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• SOURCE: Montgomery Advertiser
  12/3/2020
  

  When the Textbooks Lied, Black Alabamians Turned to Each Other for History

  Edward Ayers and Kevin M. Levin are cited in a discussion of the gradual turn of Alabama's history curriculum away from the Lost Cause mythology and apologetics for slavery. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/30/2020
  

  Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation

  Journalist and photographer Richard Frishman examines traces of segregation and racial exclusion in the built environment of the US.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/13/2020
  

  Once a Symbol of Desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ School now Reflects another Battle Engulfing Public Education

  by Connie L. Schaffer, Martha Graham Viator and Meg White

  The New Orleans school integrated by Ruby Bridges is now operated by a private charter school company, part of a trend that three education scholars say jeopardizes the survival of the entire system of public education in the United States.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  11/9/2020
  

  An American Pogrom (Review)

  by David W. Blight

  David W. Blight reviews a new book on the 1898 Wilmington massacre and the violent overthrow of multiracial democracy in North Carolina. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/3/2020
  

  We Must Do More to Honor the People and Places Lost to Violent Racism

  by Walter Greason

  Teaching a course about collective racial violence in the United States showed a professor the extent to which this history is both integral to the nation and completely hidden from the majority of Americans. 

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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.