The punishment for vagrancy typically included days (or even months) in jail, forced labor, or expulsion from the state. These laws remained on the books until 1972.

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said his previous theory that the Trump administration would enact “Jim Crow 2.0” is coming true.

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 ...

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

The Trump administration has opened the door for segregation to return in federal contracting, undoing decades of civil ...

The xenophobic, bigoted, and cruel policies of the Trump administration are bringing back traumatic memories of American racism and all the nightmares that went with it. A protest against Jim Crow ...

That was the Jim Crow era, and I believe our mostly rural Republican legislators would like to return us to that time. I for one don’t, and I think those racists should be ashamed of themselves ...

The objectives of the politicians currently attacking diversity efforts are just as invidious as the Jim Crow laws that the Brown v. Board of Education ruling sought to dismantle more than 70 ...