A young African-American Army officer who refused to adhere to Southern protocol and move to the back...
Jim Crow
In the South, electoral politics remained a parade of electoral fraud, voter intimidation, and race-baiting. Just as...
Jim Crow states passed statutes severely regulating social interactions between the races. Jim Crow was the name...
The first real challenge to the constitutionality of state segregation laws came in 1938. Brown v. Board...
It would take several decades of legal action and years of nonviolent direct action to spark real...
It was not until 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education and later 1964 with the Civil...
Religion was no barrier for Southern lynch mobs intent on terror. White pastors joined the KKK, incited...
The South was allowed to go back to their old ways of bigotry. The American Story is...