Jim Crow was not the problem ... of the South’s white supremacists who were still angry about losing the Civil War. They weren’t going to be allowed to reinstate slavery.

Following the American Civil War and the abolition of the slave ... This was particularly the case in the southern states of the USA. Jim Crow laws denied Black people rights by enforcing ...

southern Jim Crow laws, northern Black laws, civil rights movement, and race issues. Ditlevson’s program is open to the public. Admission is $3 or a Litchfield G.A.R. Civil War Roundtable ...

Later, given the racist Jim Crow laws enacted after Reconstruction ... In the meantime, the Civil War Trust has listed New Market Heights among its “most endangered” sites 4.

As Jim Crow took hold, African-Americans found their constitutional freedoms curtailed. Historian Lonnie G. Bunch III identifies 1877 as the year when all the gains of the Civil War, for Black ...

U nderscoring the backwards meaning of “Make America Great Again,” the Trump administration is touting the president’s ...

Defenders of Trump’s move will point out that there are still civil-rights laws in place prohibiting employment discrimination, but the absence of policies to enforce them is a big deal.