Activists are warning of a return to the Jim Crow era in America. But who or what was Jim Crow?
Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...
10 Black Leaders Who Take Your Civil Rights Seriously
As Black Americans stand in the face of what might be a Civil Rights Movement 2.0, we celebrate our contemporary civil rights ...
Barbara Pope Was a Civil Rights Activist Who Refused to Give Up Her Seat on a Segregated Train
Almost 50 years before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws on an Alabama bus, another civil rights activist, Barbara Pope, ...
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Milestones Of The Civil Rights Movement
The city and state, however, insisted that bus drivers continue to enforce Jim Crow laws ... the president invoked a rallying cry of the civil rights movement. An SCLC staffer watching the ...
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Legacy of Smithfield Four lives on years after library desegregated: 'Challenged Jim Crow policies'
SMITHFIELD, N.C. (WTVD) -- Since she was 16 years old, Mary Cox Matthews has spent every moment by her late husband Frank J. Matthews' side. She was emotional as she stood in front of a historical ...
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MLK knew health was part of equity. Communities of color still face disparities. | Opinion
From slavery through Jim Crow, systemic racism excluded African ... restricted access to essential care. Even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed segregation, systemic inequities ...