Jim Crow

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When the Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes, assumed the presidency, Reconstruction ended and the era of Jim Crow soon began.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

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

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

Olsen: “Sinners” is rooted so specifically in the world of the Jim Crow South here in America.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

The politics of respectability made sense to many black reformers during the Jim Crow era, since African Americans had no vote, could not change policy, and lived under the constant threat of the Klan.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander