Jim Crow

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“He was wrong to do so,” Mr. Pence tells us, “as the Jim Crow laws of the southern states amounted to a systematic abuse of the nation’s highest principles.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

When the Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes, assumed the presidency, Reconstruction ended and the era of Jim Crow soon began.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Presidents from Harry Truman to Lyndon Johnson were forced to see that Jim Crow was not just a moral catastrophe but a geopolitical liability.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

You can hear the differences in lives and backgrounds and upbringing, of men and women in the ’60s, of class and Jim Crow, it’s all in there.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2026

Enumerating these challenges to Jim Crow doesn’t prove that either Ann Atwater or Durham, North Carolina, was unique in this regard; they were not.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson