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Analysis of Richard Wright's "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow"Rather than simply stating the Jim Crow laws, Richard Wright utilizes his childhood anecdotes to capture the dominant white attitude that imposed a low social status on blacks
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DNC Chair Plays Race Card with Jim Crow CommentsDNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz continues to entertain. While appearing on TV One's "Washington Watch," she accused Republicans of "literally" wanting to reinstate the Jim Crow Laws that denied African Americans civil rights.
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An Apology for Jim Crow and SlaveryThe House of Representatives has taken some time out from wrangling about minor issues like oil drilling and the economy and is poised to pass a resolution formally apologizing to African Americans for slavery and Jim Crow.
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Jim Crow Laws: OverviewJim Crow laws were somewhat like black codes, which were put upon freed slaves after the civil war. Anti-African American legislation, Jim Crow laws, included discriminate laws against blacks in the south, barring them from...
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Southern Reconstruction, the Jim Crow Era, and Black Civil RightsThe Reconstruction period from 1863 to 1877 saw legislation aimed at integrating blacks into society as equals to whites. Though promising, the opportunities for black advancement were stifled by state and local laws during the Jim Crow era that followed.
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Is the War on Drugs the New Jim Crow?Is the War on Drugs just modern day Jim Crow laws? This article will tackle the issues of the War on Drugs and show the similarities of the laws created with those of the south's Jim Crow laws. -
Jim Crow Laws Effect on Interracial Marriage TodayAlthough racism is not as strong today as it was in the Jim Crow Era. Although, interracial marriage was not accepted back then, it is still not fully accepted today.
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Civility Watchdog: Republicans Want Jim Crow Laws?Debbie Wasserman Schultz demonizes the GOP, saying that they want to reintroduce racial segregation.
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Was There a Real Jim Crow?Yes, there was. In a manner of speaking? -
The Year was 1953: A Black Man Shoots and Kills a White Man in Jim Crow SouthRacial prejudice in Mississippi helped create one of the largest manhunts in American history after Eddie Noel shot and killed a bar owner. -
Jim Crow Alive and Well in JenaIt's a story that reads like one from America's troubled and racially explosive Jim/Jane Crow era. A white "victim" using the justice system via judges, prosecutors and all-white juries to keep "uppity negroes in their place." -
Recipe for CrowThe intervention is a 20th century (and 21st) creation and it is still subject to errors in judgment...it's a nightmare for those grounded in facts. Read my story about the FBI intervention to see what it is that the problem is. Ruhht Roe! -
Michael Baisden Provides National Support for the Jena 6On September 20, 2007 best selling author and radio personality Michael Baisden will be broadcasting his program live from Jena, Louisiana. People from across the country will protest in Jena, a small town where racism, segregation and Jim Crow laws are still enforced. -
Trouble in Mind: An AnalysisTrouble in Mind analyzes the experiences of black Americans in the South after Reconstruction to show how Jim Crow laws were designed to trap blacks in a state of maligned servitude.
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My Little CrowA poem about a crow. -
Music Review: Anders Parker - "Skyscraper Crow""Skyscraper Crow" is the double album from Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Anders Parker. -
Whites-Only Basketball League Forming: Is the All-American Basketball Alliance Off Its Rocker?In 2010, the spirits of Jim Crow and segregation are alive and well when ideas like this are put out there.
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The Valley Swim Club ControversyA day care camp consisting mostly of minority children have been turned away from a swimming club. Protestors accuse the club of racism.
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The International Civil Rights Center & Museum Opens in Greensboro, North CarolinaThe International Civil Rights Center & Museum opened in Greensboro, North Carolina 50 years to the day that four young African-American college students began a sit-in at a "whites only" lunch counter in the "Jim Crow" South of the time. -
Jim Crow, Caste System, and Minorities Migrating to PrisonBlacks and Latinos are being imprisoned at alarming and increasing rates, as more prisons are built in America. Racism and discrimination play a huge part of this phenomenon.
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From Cotton Picking to EnlistmentThis is an untold history of the first black command sergeant major of the 1st Cavalry Division. Based on personal interviews, this piece honors a man that broke free of Jim Crow and made history.
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'The Help' a Non-Threatening Racial DramaCritic Robert Denerstein says 'The Help' is a beautifully acted but non-threatening movie about a subject that probably should have proved more unsettling: race relations in the Jim Crow South. -
Equal Rights HumiliationI will argue that the need for the 14th amendment and the (former) presence of Jim Crow laws and segregation is representative of a blatantly embarrassing silliness that has no place in America's past or present.
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Finally, a Black Princess in a Disney MovieEven in the Jim Crow south fairy tales can come true even for a Black princess.
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A Biography of African American Track and Field Olympian Jesse OwensJesse Owens was the black man that showed Hitler that there was no such think as a dominant race. In spite of his Olympic success in Nazi Germany, Jesse Owens was snubbed in the Jim Crow environment of America in the 1930's.
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The Wisdom of a BuffoonIn the Jim Crow South, black-faced minstrels had to be ten times wiser than a field worker
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Charlotte Hawkins Brown Affected Civil Rights Through EducationCharlotte Hawkins Brown worked tirelessly to educate African Americans during the Jim Crow Era. Her main goal in life was to show that African Americans were not inferior to whites.
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We Build TogetherAt a time of racial discrimination and Jim Crow laws, Chicago children's librarian Charlemae Rollins set out to influence the publication of books sensitive to African American children.
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The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce, Ohio, Near DaytonIn Wilberforce, Ohio, near Dayton, visitors to the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center can learn more about how Jim Crow laws kept African Americans from professional sports and how the right to vote was obtained.
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Racism and Capital Punishment in AmericaFrom the days of slavery when African Americans were considered property, through the years of Jim Crow Laws and "Separate but Equal," the majority of those affected by the death penalty have been African American.
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REPARATIONAn analysis of the causes of the social conditions caused by slavery and Jim Crow with a proposal for solution.
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Reaction to "House Apologizes for Slavery and Jim Crow"Commentary on an unsincere apology that should have come years ago.
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Blacks and the Struggle for Civil Rights After ReconstructionAn examination of the Jim Crow laws that restricted blacks after the post- Civil War's Reconstruction Era and the response: the predecessor of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 60s.
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Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut, Jr - Book ReveiwThe story of how a boy growing up in Jim Crow days became one of the most powerful lawyers in Alabama.
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There's Something About Buba?Over the last two years we have witnessed the Second Evil Birth of Jim Crow betrayed though the iconography of the 2008 Campaign. -
60th Anniversary of Blacks in Professional FootballJim Brown, Walter Payton, Jerry Rice and Deion Sanders all of these men were trendsetters during their time in the NFL. Read about three men that paved the way for them and many others.
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What Martin Luther King Means to a White GirlHe gave hope, strength and direction to a nation of black Americans, but does his message have any bearing on white folks? And is it relevant almost forty years after his death?
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Remembering Martin Luther King, JrIt's important to acknowledge the man behind Martin Luther King Day. So commemorate his memory by remembering all of the ways he's helped society. -
Addressing the Long Term Impacts of Slaverythe continuing problems of centuries-old slavery still lingers in todayh's society
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Racism, Misogyny, and Animal Abuse in DumboA modern viewing of the Disney film Dumbo reveals all the prejudices held by the producers of this 1940s animated flick. This article details various instances of racism, misogyny, and animal abuse as depicted in the film.
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