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Who or what was Jim Crow?
Jim Crow was the name given to the system of racial segregation in the US – predominantly in the South but holding influence all over the country – from the period immediately after the American Civil War (the end of the Reconstruction era) to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
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With ‘separate but equal’ as the guiding doctrine, state and local laws restricted black rights. Black people were denied the vote; educational, economic and vocational opportunities; and basic human dignities. Yet Jim Crow was more than that: it was an all-pervasive way of life to keep African-American people as second-class citizens by sanctioning and normalising their oppression in a post-slavery world, and enforcing that with the constant threat of the law, intimidation, violence and death.
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Montgomery, Alabama: Confronting America’s painful past at the Legacy Museum, along the U.S. Civil Rights Trail
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Posted Apr 01, 2021
Victims of lynching in Ohio are listed on a steel box at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.
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I pause when I get to a block representing Ohio.
Ohio had lynchings? I did not know. I should have known.
It was one of many things I learned on a recent visit to Montgomery , a major destination on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, and home to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened in 2018 to recognize more than 4,000 victims of lynchings in the U.S.
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