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 ...

Jim Crow laws cast a long shadow over the South for nearly a century until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s challenged these discriminatory statutes. Related stories.

Jim Crow was not the problem. Jim Crow was meant to be the solution. The problem was Rutherford B. Hayes winning the electoral college but losing the popular vote in 1876. To get over the hump ...

Terror, murder and Jim Crow laws: Explore our timeline of the fight for Black voting rights. Associated Press. Yet as 20th-century civil rights laws stripped away most voting restrictions, voter ...

Letters to the Editor: ‘Jim Crow laws of a new color’ — on states making it harder to vote. A voter deposits his ballot in a dropbox in Mission, Kan., on Oct. 20, 2020.

Federal troops were withdrawn from Mississippi, ending Reconstruction, and ushering in the era of Jim Crow laws that legalized racial segregation. 1890. The state constitution was rewritten, adding ...