Jim Crow

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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

The Cold War simmered, Emmett Till had been murdered less than a year earlier and in Montgomery, Ala., a young minister named Martin Luther King Jr. was challenging Jim Crow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

During Jim Crow, Mississippi’s black voter-registration rate was the lowest in the region.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

One thing it clarifies is why Jim Crow monuments are all rendered in the same backward, Beaux-Arts style, exploiting classical forms and elaborate ornamentation harnessed for the 1890s City Beautiful movement.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025

After nearly a decade of prodding by Douglas Moore and others, King was at last prepared to endorse a national nonviolent direct-action campaign aimed at ending Jim Crow.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson