Which came first: Jim Crow laws or the Compromise of 1877? What issue was resolved with the great compromise between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists? Was the Compromise of 1867 successful? What did the Wilmot Proviso, introduced in Congress in 1846, propose to do?
reparations stems not just solely from slavery, but from unfair housing practices that have furthered the income divide, systematic segregation perpetuated by the government, primarily through Jim Crow laws and the general disregard white America and its government has for the well being of blacks....
There is strong opposition to racist ideology in the United States. The demise of the First Klan came at the end of the 1870s, when it was deemed to have served its purpose. In 1877, Reconstruction came to an end, and many states brought in Jim Crow laws. These provided the suppressi...
“Anora” is arguably his most mainstream film: a screwball comedy welded onto the class struggle between a Brighton Beach stripper and her Russian oligarch in-laws who want to dispose of her like an empty magnum of champagne. Momentum is on Baker’s side: After his recent ...
Jim Crow Laws were heavily enacted in the South, and the mandate of “separate but equal,” was spread across the U.S. This segregated schools, public places, and public transportation, where African American facilities were almost always inferior. Though northern America was thought to be much...
"But in the minor leagues, it doesn't matter what your last name is. That was really my first experience dealing with race issues in baseball, when I got to the minor leagues. When I would go to Huntsville, Alabama; in Nashville, Tennessee; in Wisconsin. I mean, you're prepared for...
Political Correctness (politically correct or PC), describes how much tolerance, sensitivity, censorship, and freedom of expression "is correct" in a given setting.
The first is C. Vann Woodward’sThe Strange Career of Jim Crow.InJim CrowWoodward tells the story of the emergence of the increasingly severe laws enforcing segregation in the South following the end of Reconstruction. (In the North we were more De Facto than De Jure about segregation.)They...
those who had been in power began to wretch with fear and anger, and they rebelled. They intensified efforts to keep Black people under their control, creating Black Codes and Jim Crow laws, designed to put and keep things “back” to where they were “supposed” to be. That included ta...
You can get a sense of their raw energy from their recordings, but seeing them live is truly a physically overwhelming experience. Instead of going to another big-name show at Webster Hall and having to pinch yourself mid-way through to confirm that you are not in fact dead, go see ...