After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, segregation became even more ensconced through a battery of Southern laws and social customs known as “Jim Crow.” Schools, theaters, restaurants ...

Jim Crow excluded Black taxpayers from using facilities ... and opportunity and giving it to white families is good for African America. Furthermore, Donald’s entire definition of “family ...

African-Americans Came Out of the Civil War and Ran into Jim Crow Historian Lonnie G. Bunch III identifies 1877 as the year when all the gains of the Civil War, for Black people, began to be erased.

In the Learning Activity, students view video segments from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross to learn about what life was like during the Jim Crow era. Finally, in the Culminating ...

and social standing of African Americans. Guest editor Lawrence D. Bobo suggests that today we inhabit a similarly unsettled place: situated somewhere between the overt discrimination of Jim Crow and ...

In an event presented by the Sonoma County Library and Petaluma Blacks for Community Development, author Miriam Thaggert will share stories and insights from her book “Riding Jane Crow: African ...

“And the African Americans who were suffering through Jim Crow really needed his help.” Between 1913 and 1937, they built nearly 5,000 Rosenwald Schools. Rosenwald provided financing, but not ...