VINITA, Okla. – Just weeks after Oklahoma became the nation’s 46th state in 1907, the Oklahoma Senate passed its first law — a Jim Crow law—calling for mandatory segregation between races in train ...

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — who eagerly describes herself as a prosecutor running against “felon” Donald Trump — likened law enforcement in America to lynching and Jim Crow ...

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., a prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump, recently tried to draw Black voters to Trump’s side, but a comparison he made involving the Jim Crow era drew ...

Members of the Edward Livingston Historical Association recently explored the continuity of arguments prominent Southerners used, sometimes 100 years apart, to defend chattel slavery and Jim Crow ...

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Before Rosa Parks, there was a veteran riding on a bus through Durham who took a stand against racist Jim Crow laws - but he did not survive his action. Before Rosa Parks, there was a veteran riding ...