The Trump administration’s sweeping legal effort to obtain Americans’ sensitive data from states’ voter rolls is now almost ...

"For many people, especially those who came of age after landmark civil rights legislation was passed, it is difficult to understand what it was like to be an African American living under Jim Crow ...

Bill Clinton compares voter ID laws to Jim Crow: “There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the Jim Crow burdens on voting, the determined effort to limit the ...

Members of the Edward Livingston Historical Association recently explored the continuity of arguments prominent Southerners used, sometimes 100 years apart, to defend chattel slavery and Jim Crow ...

Survivors of Jim Crow deserve reparations. It wasn't just segregation. | Opinion "I Am Nobody's Slave" author Lee Hawkins makes a case for reparations for descendants of the enslaved and those who ...

Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered--and forever transformed--American popular ...