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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.
- 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
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.- 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.
- 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.
Was There a Real Jim Crow?Yes, there was. In a manner of speaking?- 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.
- 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.
- Are There Two Americas?When Mrs. Koolbreeze and I watched the CNN special "Black in America" last week, it got me to thinking about some things my mom had tried to explain to me as I was growing up in Detroit during the 1970s and '80s.
- Reaction to "House Apologizes for Slavery and Jim Crow"Commentary on an unsincere apology that should have come years ago.
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."