Jim Crow – Page 3 – People's World

Remembering Bruce Carver Boynton, anti-segregation fighter and Freedom Ride inspiration

December 21, 2020 By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II And Elliott Smith

Boynton’s arrest and Supreme Court case 62 years ago helped inspire youth-led movements for social change.

House votes to toss statues of rebels from U.S. Capitol

July 24, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

The Democratic-run U.S. House voted to eject statues of Confederate leaders, plus racist U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, from the U.S. Capitol, especially Statuary Hall.

After a century or more of defeats, Congress finally declares lynching a hate crime

March 3, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

At least 4,742 people, 99% of them African Americans, were lynched between 1892 and the mid-1950s.

Jackie Robinson integrates baseball: Daily Worker archives 1947

April 15, 2019 By Lester Rodney

"The cheers for Robinson are saying something, something that will make it easier for Negro players to come, for the day when there’ll be no special pressure upon an American ballplayer whose skin happens to be...

Jim Crow racism is back with Florida Republicans’ poll tax

March 28, 2019 By Jesse Jackson

If Republicans have their way, they will use unpaid fines to block a substantial portion of African Americans from voting.