Due to the racial segregation prevalent in the U.S. military and the enforcement of Jim Crow laws in numerous ... Did any men from Louisiana serve in the Tuskegee Airmen? Shreveport Democratic ...

Plessy, a man who was one-eighth black, but classified as black by Louisiana law ... of Southern laws and social customs known as “Jim Crow.” Schools, theaters, restaurants, and transportation ...

During Galveston's Jim Crow era, Black islanders who fancied ... Galveston hired its first Black lifeguard in 1935. That was Louisiana native Helton, a stevedore at the Port of Galveston who ...

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 ...