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2 giorni fa · In the U.S. South, Jim Crow laws and legal racial segregation in public facilities existed from the late 19th century into the 1950s. The civil rights movement was initiated by Black Southerners in the 1950s and ’60s to break the prevailing pattern of segregation.
- Homer Plessy and Jim Crow
After a night in jail, Plessy appeared in criminal court...
- Homer Plessy and Jim Crow
2 giorni fa · The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. Such laws remained in force until 1965.
29 mag 2024 · Gale Academic OneFile includes The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (documentary; four VHS videotapes). by Louise P. Maxwell. Click to explore.
20 giu 2024 · After a night in jail, Plessy appeared in criminal court before Judge John Howard Ferguson to answer charges of violating the Separate Car Act. The Committee to Test the Constitutionality of the Separate Car Act then posted a $500 bond so Plessy could be released, after which the extensive legal maneuvers began.
10 giu 2024 · Jim Crow Segregation & White Supremacy. "Jim Crow is the common name used to describe the racial segregation and disfranchisement inflicted upon African Americans in the postbellum South. The term “Jim Crow” was the name of a popular, black-face minstrel show character that originated in the 1830s. This character represented the ...
5 giu 2024 · During the 1870s, many Republicans retreated from both the racial egalitarianism and the broad definition of federal power spawned by the Civil War. Southern corruption and instability, Reconstruction’s critics argued, stemmed from the exclusion of the region’s “best men”—the planters—from power.
6 giu 2024 · A Black U.S. Republican lawmaker said his comments expressing nostalgia for the Jim Crow era were taken out of context after Democrats criticised his words as outrageous and ignorant.
