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5 days ago · In the U.S. South, Jim Crow laws and legal racial segregation in public facilities existed from the late 19th century into the 1950s. The civil rights movement was initiated by Black Southerners in the 1950s and ’60s to break the prevailing pattern of segregation.
- Homer Plessy and Jim Crow
Martinet, of course, knew that the Abbott case did not apply...
- Thomas Dartmouth Rice
Thomas Dartmouth Rice was an American actor regarded as the...
- Fourteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment, amendment (1868) to the Constitution...
- Carpetbaggers
carpetbagger, in the United States, a derogatory term for an...
- What Is The Origin of The Term “Jim Crow
From the late 1870s until the triumphs of the civil rights...
- Freedmen
freedman, former slave set free.In ancient Athens, former...
- Melvin I. Urofsky
Melvin I. Urofsky is Professor of Law & Public Policy and...
- Separate But Equal
The artifice of “separate but equal” collapsed in 1954 with...
- Homer Plessy and Jim Crow
5 days ago · By GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press May 17, 2024. RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The final surviving member of a trio of African American youths who were the first to desegregate the undergraduate ...
2 days ago · As Americans of African descent reached each new plateau in their struggle for equality, they reevaluated their identity. The slaveholder labels of black and negro (Spanish for “black”) were offensive, so they chose the euphemism coloured when they were freed.
- Hollis Lynch
15 hours ago · Commercial entertainment contracted again in the 1950s and 1960s as Americans spent more of their evening leisure hours watching television and began to regard urban public spaces with suspicion. Still, nightlife is viewed as an important component of urban economic life and is actively promoted by many municipal governments.
5 days ago · The first HBCUs were founded in Pennsylvania and Ohio before the American Civil War (1861–65) with the purpose of providing Black youths—who were largely prevented, due to racial discrimination, from attending established colleges and universities—with a basic education and training to become teachers or tradesmen.
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2 days ago · Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of ...
6 days ago · The history of Newark's African American communities (and the ethnic groups with which they interacted) up to 1970. Illustrated with a rich collection of primary documents, including digitized photographs, letters, speeches, maps, videos, oral histories, etc.
