New exhibit tells story of Rosenwald Schools in Jim Crow South
The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum has a special exhibit called “A Better Life for Their Children.” Through ...
The ‘Black Angels’ cared for tuberculosis patients when no one else would
In the early 20th century, these Black nurses came to New York City from the Jim Crow South to join the fight against the ...
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How Alabama Communists Organized in the Jim Crow South
In 1930s Alabama, Communist Party members fought brutal repression to organize black and white workers in the Jim Crow South. Their efforts remain a source of inspiration for those fighting racism ...
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Nazi Germany borrowed from racist ideology from Jim Crow South; prof shares experiences of Black Germans
like in the U.S. The Nazis borrowed a lot from the Jim Crow South and applied it to their populations of non-Aryans in Germany, so that included people who weren’t Black. [There were rules like ...
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Memoir connects abusive childhood in Minnesota to the Jim Crow South and slavery
The former Wall Street Journal reporter, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2022 for writing about the Tulsa massacre, also connects spanking to the Jim Crow-era crime of lynching, both of which often ...
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'Nickel Boys' is nominated for two Oscars, and its director is a RISD grad
“Nickel Boys” is a story about two African-American boys sent to an abusive reform school in the Jim Crow South filmed in an unconventional first person POV. Ross is a RISD graduate and ...
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Raymond Pace Alexander: Rising to the challange
Raymond Pace Alexander was born in Philadelphia in 1897 in the 7th Ward, currently Central City, where many working-class Black Americans lived. His parents moved north to Philadelphia in search of ...
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Winfred Rembert documented the Jim Crow era with deeply personal paintings
Winfred Rembert became physically ill whenever he painted harrowing scenes from his time growing up during the Jim Crow era in South Georgia. Created on tooled leather, some of his paintings ...