During the Reconstruction period of 1865–1877, federal law provided civil rights protection in the U.S. South for freedmen – the African Americans who had formerly been slaves. In the 1870s, White ...

I thought Jim Crow was dead, but it seems to be making a comeback through policies designed to roll back progress.

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 ...

Private Booker T. Spicely in an undated Army photo / Graphic from "Changing Same: The Cold-Blooded Murder of Booker T. Spicely" In 1944, a Black Army private was shot and killed in Durham, NC by a ...

To the editor: If the U.S. Constitution gives the right to vote to every citizen over 18 years of age, then states need to guarantee that every citizen can exercise that right. That means they must ...

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 30,000 ...

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 ...