Jim Crow

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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.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-27-18
  

  UVA’s Andrew W. Kahrl says the Starbuck’s racial incident highlights a problem white northerners long ignored

  by Andrew W. Kahrl

  Jim Crow existed in the North, too, but in disguise

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• SOURCE: Medium
  3/8/18
  

  From Segregation to Gentrification

  by Mike Green

  Lessons from Seattle and Detroit: How city policies and NIMBYism lead to unimpeded market forces displacing poor people of color.

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• SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
  

  Historian: Let's call this system what it is ... 21st century Jim Crow

  by Victoria L. Jackson

  The non-revenue athletes don't get paid but most generate huge sums for the schools where they play. Oh, and most are black.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  1-12-18
  

  Sports Historian Explains Why She Wrote that the NCAA is the Modern Jim Crow

  Victoria Jackson’s claim appeared in an explosive op-ed for the Los Angeles Times.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11-25-17
  

  Mississippi’s bold new Civil Rights Museum offers unflinching view of US history

  Topics overlap: slavery, the civil war, Jim Crow laws, the Delta blues. The result is a sweeping view of Mississippi’s history that puts the civil rights movement into context.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-5-17
  

  The forgotten civil rights case that stopped the spread of Jim Crow

  by Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant

  How? By focusing on white property rights, not black civil rights.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  9-12-17
  

  We Legitimize the ‘So-Called’ Confederacy With Our Vocabulary, and That’s a Problem, say some historians

  by Christopher Wilson

  Tearing down monuments is only the beginning to understanding the false narrative of Jim Crow.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8-12-17
  

  Republicans and Democrats in North Carolina are locked in a battle over which party inherits the shame of Jim Crow.

  At issue: the only coup d’état ever to take place on American soil.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2-28-17
  

  Betsy DeVos Press Release Celebrates Jim Crow Education System as Pioneer of “School Choice”

  She praised historically black colleges  –  which were formed after white colleges blocked blacks from attending  –  as a positive example of school choice. 

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• SOURCE: Crosscut
  5-20-16
  

  Geographical names with “Jim Crow” are history in this state

  All of the names in Washington state’s map that feature the words “Jim Crow” could be erased before the end of this year.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2-11-16
  

  The police beating that opened America’s eyes to Jim Crow’s brutality

  by Chris Lamb

  On February 12, 1946 Isaac Woodard, a 26-year-old black Army veteran, boarded a bus in Augusta, Georgia. After he asked to use bathroom police were called and he was beaten so badly he went blind.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  2-3-16
  

  It’s the anniversary of one of the largest Jim Crow protests in NYC, but who’s heard of it?

  by Matthew Delmont

  Thousands of New York City students staged a one-day boycott to protest segregation in February 1964 and it barely made the history books.

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• SOURCE: Crossroads
  11-1-15
  

  The Continuing What-Ifs of Reconstruction

  by Brooks D. Simpson

  A critique of Gordon-Reed’s essay in the Atlantic on the failed hopes of Reconstruction. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10-26-15
  

  What If Reconstruction Hadn’t Failed?

  by Annette Gordon-Reed

  The pervasiveness of white-supremacist ideology in academia gave license to Jim Crow efforts for decades after the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: NC State University
  10-8-15
  

  NC student’s senior thesis selected as top paper sheds light on little-known victory over Jim Crow

  It’s a story pulled from today’s headlines: Black voters turn out on election day only to learn that their names have been stricken from the voter rolls. But this one has a happy ending.

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• SOURCE: Media Matters
  6-8-15
  

  IA GOP Kingmaker Mickelson Wants To Bring Back Jim Crow-Era Voting Laws

  Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson, the state's self-appointed vetter of GOP presidential candidates, recently told members of the League of Women Voters that it should be harder for people to vote, suggesting it be limited to state property owners or people who pass a civics test.

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• SOURCE: The Times-Picayune
  5-5-15
  

  Historian traces racist origin of Louisiana law allowing 10-2 jury verdicts

  Thomas Aiello says the law allowing such verdicts was crafted during the Jim Crow era.