| An old Jim Crow law in the Southern states sanctioned and legalized racism, the segregation of blacks and whites. |
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| This was known as the ' Jim Crow ' system, named after earlier caricature portrayals of blacks. |
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| Given the reality of the Jim Crow South, however, majoritarian democracy could hardly have been said to be in play. |
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| The Jim Crow law was winked at by the firm, and many colored patrons were served in the main parlor, which was also on the second floor. |
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| When this war comes to an end, will you herd me in a Jim Crow car like cattle? |
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| Pilgrim is curator of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich. |
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| Five years later, Tennessee adopted the first Jim Crow law and the rest of the South rapidly fell in line. |
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| Readers also will learn that black success in a Jim Crow society was necessarily grounded in betrayal of the community. |
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| What Jackson did was an act of protest, not unlike what Rosa Parks committed when she refused to give in to a Jim Crow law. |
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| By 1913, just as there was for schools, housing, public transportation, there was a Jim Crow section for black Civil War memory. |
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| This is a nation that practiced slavery, genocide of the native peoples, Jim Crow apartheid and war mongering. |
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| Slowly, still falteringly but inexorably, Jim Crow justice was disappearing in the South. |
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| Of course the legal apparatus of Jim Crow is now gone, but it is reflected in every meaningful social statistic: health, life span, jobs. |
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| Yet most AFL unions refused to admit black workers or else organized them in separate Jim Crow locals. |
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| Malcolm X described a world emerging from colonialism and an America emerging from Jim Crow segregation. |
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| But in America, he suffered under the oppressiveness of Jim Crow, which forced his oversized personality into a more humble version for his white colleagues. |
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| And during Jim Crow, I think it's fair to say it was not affirming of African-American humanity. |
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| To put one�s name on a lawsuit publically challenging the Jim Crow system was to risk one�s life. |
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| After Jim Crow laws were abolished, these preemptory challenges were the tool used to keep blacks off of juries. |
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| So-called Jim Crow laws institutionalized inequality, segregating blacks from whites, a situation the civil rights movement fought to rectify. |
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| For them the Jim Crow South was a grotesque spectacle, often more ridiculous than intimidating. |
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| The Supreme Court overturned Jim Crow law schools in the state of Texas because the state was not complying with the standard of separate but equal. |
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| But he also would have helped to keep calls for a smaller federal government from being seen as a backdoor attempt at Jim Crow. |
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| America has obviously made tremendous progress since the days of Jim Crow, bull Connor, and voter intimidation at the polls. |
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| Thus, during Jim Crow, black men were routinely hanged, castrated, and lynched for alleged sexual assaults against white women. |
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| In the face of her constant courage, her unshakable faith, her inner strength, and quiet grace, even Jim Crow had to yield. |
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| As governor of South Carolina in the post-war years, Thurmond was the preeminent defender of Jim Crow. |
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| I recall wondering if the Sons of the Confederacy or some such organization might summon up similar chutzpah to package a Jim Crow tour of the Old South. |
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| Soon after Jerry disappeared, she shook the red dust of south Georgia from her shoes, gathered her brood about her and climbed aboard a Jim Crow train. |
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| They are the type of laws that supported slavery, bringing about the creation of an Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the type of laws that sustained a Jim Crow era of segregation. |
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| Nearly two hundred years separate Jim Crow from Vanilla Ice, The Rapper Show, Eminem, the Beastie Boys, and a legion of other wanksta wiggers. |
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| Blacks in the South during the Jim Crow era, beginning in 1880s and lasting until the 1960s, were discriminated against, disfranchised and terrorized. |
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| However, this gain was undermined in the South during the almost century-long Jim Crow era, when blacks suffered discrimination, disfranchisement and violence. |
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| Those times were the heyday of Jim Crow, eugenics and manifest destiny. |
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| Among those who arrived during October, November and December were Pootook and Big Head's boy, Jim Crow, Innutiak and Havkillich, Isaac Fleming, Nukki, and Amedlut Gull. |
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| This anthology also explores how her literary features were further defined during the postbellum era of Jim Crow segregation and civil rights abuses. |
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| The wholesale disfranchisement of Southern black voters occurred during these years, as did the rise and triumph of Jim Crow. |
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| And it was in Pontiac that I dug that Jim Crow man in person, a motherferyer that would cut your throat for looking. |
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| She compares mass incarceration to Jim Crow laws, stating that both work as racial caste systems. |
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| Jim Crow Laws, which were enacted in the 1870s, brought legal racial segregation against black Americans residing in the American South. |
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| These groups, especially in the Jim Crow South were under great pressure to conform to segregation. |
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| By the late 1890s, Southern states enacted Jim Crow laws to enforce racial segregation and disenfranchisement. |
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| Most African Americans obeyed the Jim Crow laws, in order to avoid racially motivated violence. |
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| Large numbers began migrating north looking for better job opportunities and living conditions, and to escape Jim Crow laws and racial violence. |
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| Prior to the 1950s, Black Americans in the South were subject to de jure discrimination, or Jim Crow laws. |
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| Disfranchising legislation accompanied Jim Crow laws passed in the late 19th century, which imposed segregation in the state. |
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| They would say that it is the return of the old Jim Crow laws or some scheisse like that. |
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| Consequently, Jim Crow aided hooch to flow freehandedly in the Baptist Bottom. |
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| Most people think of the Klan as the night riders in the South after the Civil War, terrorizing black communities and establishing Jim Crow segregation across the South. |
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| Proponents of a right to discriminate based on religion get angry when they are accused of favoring a new version of the South's noxious Jim Crow laws. |
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| That injustices christened by slavery and shaped by Jim Crow laws are alive and well in current police, municipal and court practices is not an eye-opener. |
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| Democratic Party whites retained political power through Jim Crow laws. |
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| When confronted with violence and discrimination in the period of Jim Crow, their response often reinforced racist and even eugenicist discourse instead of challenging it. |
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| Segregation, which began with slavery, continued with Jim Crow laws, with signs used to show blacks where they could legally walk, talk, drink, rest, or eat. |
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| From 1969 to 1971, state legislators under Governor Mills Godwin rewrote the constitution, after goals such as the repeal of Jim Crow laws had been achieved. |
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