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Who Or What Was Jim Crow? A Guide To The US Racial Segregation Laws


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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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Pamplin Media Group - Ida B. Wells-Barnett suggested as new name for Wilson High


Portland Public Schools Board to vote on recommendation for new namesake Jan. 26
The Portland Public Schools Board of Education is expected to approve the renaming of Woodrow Wilson High School to Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School.
A renaming committee was scheduled to present the suggestion for the new namesake to the school board on Tuesday, Jan. 26. Ida B. Wells-Barnett was among five names under consideration by the committee after public feedback was solicited via online surveys.
In December, the committee narrowed down a list of five names for final consideration, all of them Black women who had historic significance or notable contributions to American society. ....

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