Jim Crow

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“The film speaks to the Black experience in America within these borders of 1930s Jim Crow South,” Coogler mused.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

Yet the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877 and the rise of Jim Crow left him embittered, mourning the rollback of hard-won rights.

From The Wall Street Journal

Both of Mr. Smith’s parents fled the Jim Crow South, met in Washington and imbued their son with ambition, purpose and tenacity.

From The Wall Street Journal

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