Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...

Jim Crow was not the problem ... the results — Hayes agreed to remove federal troops from former Confederate states. In short: The Reconstruction era wasn’t ended because Black Americans ...

When whites re-gained control of Southern states’ governments ... a battery of Southern laws and social customs known as “Jim Crow.” Schools, theaters, restaurants, and transportation ...

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 ...

This was particularly the case in the southern states of the USA. Jim Crow laws denied Black people rights by enforcing segregation and discrimination in southern states. The Ku Klux Klan targeted ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of a wide range of felonies.

The concern is misplaced, because if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.” Even if Mitch McConnell’s viral gaffe last ...

BIG RAPIDS, MI - Ferris State University has broken ground on a new standalone building for its Jim Crow Museum. The new building will be better equipped to handle the its entire collection of ...