LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - Stories from the public are being sought to complete research into the state’s history during the Jim Crow-era, when African-Americans used a “green book” to find ...
The teaching of Black history in segregated schools has a long history. After emancipation, freed people in the American South flocked to newly established schools to learn to read and write but also ...
At the show’s entry, the remarkable remains of a Robert E. Lee statue, the one whose planned removal from a public park ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota History Center's newest exhibit hopes to show Black Americans' fight for racial equity and full citizenship in the years following the Civil War. Opening Saturday, the ...
Lee Hawkins’ book shows exploring the connections between the past and present helps us understand the forces shaping our ...
(THE CONVERSATION) The news was startling. On June 19, 1865, two months after the U.S. Civil War ended, Union Gen. Gordon Granger walked onto the balcony at Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and ...
I thought Jim Crow was dead, but it seems to be making a comeback through policies designed to roll back progress.
BIG RAPIDS, Mich. — Ferris State University faculty and staff gathered to break ground on a new museum that will house the school's massive collection of racist materials. The university's Jim Crow ...
Lee Hawkins's book argues for expanding the reparations debate to include survivors of the Jim Crow era. The Jim Crow era subjected Black people to racial segregation, violence, and systemic ...