US Supreme Court rejects challenge to Mississippi lifetime ban on voting by felons
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of ...
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Jim Crow Laws
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 ...
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Trump’s War on DEI Opens the Door to Jim Crow’s Return
Yes, EO 11246 was amended in 2014 by President Barack Obama to add sexual orientation and gender identity to prohibited ...
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Letters to the Editor: ‘Jim Crow laws of a new color’ — on states making it harder to vote
Otherwise, we simply have Jim Crow laws of a new color. The states must also provide an appeals process for immediate resolution when documents are deemed unacceptable. Preventing citizens from ...
Supreme Court won’t weigh Mississippi’s voting ban for felons
The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not consider whether a Mississippi law banning people convicted of certain felonies ...
Charles Person, youngest of civil rights ‘Freedom Riders’ who boarded buses to test Jim Crow laws
Charles Person, who has died aged 82, was the youngest of the civil rights activists – seven black and six white Americans – ...
The National Interest4d
Jim Crow
Many supporters of their removal argue that the vast majority were built during the era of Jim Crow laws,... After Jessica Anne Krug posted an apologia for passing as Black, the public furor was ...