Jim Crowism

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“This is a nation that has gone through slavery, Reconstruction, lynching, Jim Crowism,” Ms. Jackson Lee said Thursday.

From New York Times

I’m particularly interested in Jim Crowism — how African-Americans earned equality and then had it taken from them.

From New York Times

In 1893, with nascent Jim Crowism and the lynching epidemic, he wrote, “We have but one weapon unimpaired and it is that weapon of speech, and not to use it . . . is treason to the oppressed.”

From Washington Post

The 1917 march was silent but not without words: The Times said the banners the marchers carried told of “Jim Crowism,” segregation and disenfranchisement.

From New York Times

Board of Education in 1954 finally led to the school’s closing, and it ended its days as a symbol of Jim Crowism.

From New York Times