Trump surrogate and vice presidential hopeful Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., is trying to walk back his claim that Black Americans had it better when segregation was still being imposed, falsely claiming ...

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries ripped a fellow congressman for suggesting that Black people were better off during the era of Jim Crow segregation. The Democratic House minority leader on Wednesday slammed Rep.

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century beginning in ...

NMAH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Although the origins, application, and socio-historical implications of the Jim Crow system have been studied and debated for at ...

Members of the Edward Livingston Historical Association recently explored the continuity of arguments prominent Southerners used, sometimes 100 years apart, to defend chattel slavery and Jim Crow ...

Black Americans forced to go North for advanced degrees return home to fight Jim Crow in the South. The untold story of Black Americans in pursuit of higher education in the North when Southern ...

NMAFMAI copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. "Jim Crow's Legacy shows the lasting impact of segregation on the lives of African Americans who lived through it, as well as its impact on future ...

It’s hard to go anywhere and not run into Black travelers. Every year, more African Americans explore destinations further away from their homes. For some, travel and wellness have become synonymous.

Elena Wilson is a summer intern on The Tennessean's opinion and engagement journalism team. She is a rising senior and journalism major at University of Missouri. In 1921, 17-year-old Edna Smith ...

Almost sixty years ago, the United States of America became a representative democracy. Until 1965, if you count African Americans, this nation was a democracy for some, but not others. The Voting ...

Trump surrogate and vice presidential hopeful Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., is trying to walk back his claim that Black Americans had it better when segregation was still being imposed, falsely claiming ...