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 ...

I thought Jim Crow was dead, but it seems to be making a comeback through policies designed to roll back progress.

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 ...

In 1921, 17-year-old Edna Smith boarded a city streetcar in Nashville on what was known as the Broadway and West End Line. Smith, a young Black woman, was instructed by the driver to sit in the ...