The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal ... mandating segregation of schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and ...

Under Jim Crow, most schools available to African Americans were inadequate and underfunded. But between 1912 and 1937, the Rosenwald Schools program helped black communities build 4,978 new ...

demonstrate against Jim Crow with sit-ins and marches. She was always too young to participate, but integrating the local high school gave her a way to fight for civil rights, too. “I heard ...

Segregation and Jim Crow laws were designed to take from Black ... “It’s important to plow to grow stuff, just like school is important to learn things.” “Mr. Fuller, would you teach ...

Jim Crow laws enforced segregation in the south, meaning it was legal to have separate facilities for Black and white Americans. Segregated spaces included: Schools Waiting rooms Public transport ...

As the 2025 legislative session draws near, hundreds of Louisiana prisoners remain in political limbo. But a new bill could provide them with relief.

Surveying 173 schools, we found that 42 percent offer ... pernicious trend that goes back to the 1960s, not long after Jim Crow segregation was banned under federal law. The first neo-segregated ...

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal ... mandating segregation of schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and ...