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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...
Mississippi Jim Crow-era voting law upheld by appeals court
NY Daily News via AOL· 2 years agoThe 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday voted 10-7 against two men who sued after they were...
Federal appeals court upholds Jim Crow-era Mississippi law restricting voting rights for felons
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a Mississippi law restricting voting rights for...
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...
Living under Jim Crow: 'Mother Liddell' tells her story
Record-Courier via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDeseree Liddell, a great-granddaughter of former slaves, lived under Jim Crow laws in Mississippi...
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 court rules voting ban on ex-cons is ‘unconstitutionally cruel and unusual’
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA Mississippi appeals court overturned a Jim Crow law imposing a lifetime voting ban on people...
Black voters are making the Mississippi governor’s race more competitive. How will they use that...
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIn 1964, Flonzie Brown-Wright, then 22, attempted to register to vote for the first time as a Black...
'Racist taint.' Will the Supreme Court review a Jim Crow-era voting ban targeted at Black...
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWASHINGTON – The Mississippians who gathered to revise their state constitution in 1890 with new...
Mississippi should restore the voting rights of former felons, Democratic candidates say
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 9 months agoMississippi should stop defending a Jim Crow-era portion of its state constitution that permanently...
