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How Mississippi’s Jim Crow laws still haunt Black voters today
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 2 months agoCharles Caldwell was never meant to have a voice. Mississippi’s White ruling class made sure of it....
Supreme Court rejects challenge to Jim Crow-era Mississippi voting law
NBC Universal via AOL· 12 months agoThe Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a constitutional amendment adopted by Mississippi during...
Jim Crow Is Resurrected in Mississippi
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPhoto Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/ReutersEarlier this month, white representatives in the Mississippi House approved a bill to create...
Federal appeals court upholds Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era voting law ‘steeped in racism’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFaced with an opportunity to ‘right a 130-year-old wrong’, a federal appeals court upholds language...
The Nazis studied US eugenics and Jim Crow laws as a model for their policies. When they were...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTop: A segregated store for migrant workers in Belle Glade, Florida, in 1941. Bottom: The Warsaw...
From separate hotels to cemeteries, striking historical photos show what segregation looked like in...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAfrican American men wearing tuxedos carry a coffin and a "Here Lies Jim Crow" sign down the middle...
Ex-rep slams Mississippi’s cops, court plan as “Jim Crow 2.0”
theGrio via AOL· 1 year agoJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Efforts by the majority-white Mississippi Legislature to create courts with...
Mississippi Jim Crow-era voting law upheld by appeals court
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA U.S. appeals court upheld Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era voting law that was written to stop Black people from voting. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday voted 10-7 against two men ...
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Jim Crow-era voting law
The Hill via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThe Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a challenge next term to a Mississippi Constitutional...
Bill to change Jackson judges looks 'like Jim Crow,' Mississippi lawmaker says
ABC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Republican-led Mississippi state House of Representatives passed a bill on Feb. 7 that would...
