After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, segregation became even more ensconced through a battery of Southern laws and social customs known as “Jim Crow.” Schools, theaters, restaurants ...

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The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century ...

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CNN's Scott Jennings ran this victory lap about Chuck Schumer and several other Senate Democrats giving Republicans the votes they needed to keep the government funded for another six months, Sunday ...