Jim Crow

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Progressive critique has long demanded that students learn the truth: that dismantling Jim Crow required sophisticated, institutional organizing at the grassroots level.

From Salon • May 20, 2026

The Voting Rights Act was a landmark of American liberty that helped to break Jim Crow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Moy was born in 1938, the second of nine children raised by a “gospel-loving mom” and “jazz-loving dad” who had fled Jim Crow Louisiana for a relatively comfortable middle-class life in Detroit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

You can hear the differences in lives and backgrounds and upbringing, of men and women in the ’60s, of class and Jim Crow, it’s all in there.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2026

Just as Jim Crow, as a system of racial control, was dramatically different from slavery, mass incarceration is different from its predecessor.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander