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 ...

A new picture book, based on Sam Cooke’s iconic anthem “A Change Is Gonna Come” is set to publish this year via Little Bee Books. Take a sneak peek at the illustrations by Nikkolas Smith here!

The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum has a special exhibit called “A Better Life for Their Children.” Through ...

Many Jim Crow laws remained on the books and were vigorously enforced well into the 1960s. The system would not be officially dismantled until after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and ...

VINITA, Okla. – Just weeks after Oklahoma became the nation’s 46th state in 1907, the Oklahoma Senate passed its first law — a Jim Crow law—calling for mandatory segregation between races ...