Jim Crow
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Mary Porter is worried by the Supreme Court's ruling and says "we don't want those kind of laws, Jim Crow laws, to come back"
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Over a century ago, when the Supreme Court helped usher in Jim Crow, Justice John Marshall Harlan took his colleagues to task for betraying the promise of Reconstruction.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
Today, black voter registration in the South, where black voter suppression was most pronounced in the Jim Crow era, is higher than in other regions of the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 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
