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 ...

SOCIETY What are Jim Crow laws and when were they abolished? Conjuring up images of a minstrel show character these laws represented a dark era of legalised racial oppression in the United States.

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.

Congress passed a “prevailing wage” law in 1931 specifically intended to favor white workers and white-only labor unions over nonunionized and minority workers. Jim Crow is long gone. But ...

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris -- who touts herself as a prosecutor running against "felon" Donald Trump -- once equated law enforcement in America to lynching and Jim Crow laws.

Laws restricting where Black people could stand in public. Even after the 19th Amendment finally gave women the right to vote in 1920, Jim Crow laws prevented many Black women from doing so.

Terror, Murder and Jim Crow Laws: Inside Mississippi’s Racial Voter Intimidation History Black Mississippians’ right to vote has constantly been under threat. A recent bill that would have restored ...

Otherwise, we simply have Jim Crow laws of a new color. The states must also provide an appeals process for immediate resolution when documents are deemed unacceptable.

A U.S. appeals court upheld Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era voting law that was written to stop Black people from voting. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday voted 10-7 against two men who ...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday kept in place a Jim Crow-era voting restriction in Mississippi’s constitution that removes voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies ...