...Dred Scott Decision. · Democrats supported and passed Jim Crow Laws. · Democrats supported and passed Black Codes. · Democrats opposed educating blacks ... destroyed Reconstruction and introduced Black Codes, Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux ... that the Institution of Slavery and Jim Crow Laws weren’t promoted, protected and preserved by prominent individuals or ... Black Codes, in 1875 they passed Jim Crow Laws and in 1894 they ...

... myself." Davis and his family are living on the knife edge between past and present. Davis was born in 1968, just four years after the official end of Jim Crow laws that banned African Americans from the charming park squares of twisted oaks cloaked with Spanish moss that are the pride of Savannah. Presbyterian minister Ernest Risley told Time...

...by the Democrats against African Americans were initiated and committed at the state level under the Democratic Party's claims of States’ Rights based on the party's Jim Crow Laws and Black Codes. -- not too random uselessnet weirdness: Bill Shatzer wrote: "And over 4,000 Americans have paid with their lives for that little ...

... in law and enforced by the State, such as the class structure of medieval Europe, the class of slaves in the US prior to the Civil War (and the Jim Crow laws that followed), or the apartheid laws of South Africa. The only "natural" classes among humans having economic consequences, as among most animals, are the classes of males ...

... childhood for many reasons. Armando always talks about growing up Mexican in the Rio Grande Valley during that time as being like African-Americans in the Deep South during Jim Crow. Because they were just at the bottom of the barrel, because of racism, you know, they were poor, they were migrant workers, because of what was ...

...point very clearly. How could anyone *possibly* call YOU a racist? Why is it that despite 40 years of preferential treatment, your behavior is worse today than during Jim Crow? MLK promised us improvement. I'd love to see you speak like that to any black person's face. Whoppi would kick your cracker ass. The negro ...

... economy, exhibit the same crappy profiles. You're just a racist. Oh horseshit. That tired old excuse won't work anymore. When blacks were oppressed under Jim Crow laws, their behavior was far better than today. White liberal excusemaking contributes to their behavior by always telling them that they're "victims." And it's not just ...

... existence of this religious order was based on a rigid and brutal class system. Serfs were treated like despised "inferiors"--the way Black people were treated in the Jim Crow South. Serfs could not use the same seats, vocabulary or eating utensils as serf owners. Even touching one of the master's belongings could be punished by ...

... one of Obama's earliest supporters. "Our country is a country that for 2 1/2 centuries had Africans as chattel slavery and a century after that had Jim Crow," Ellison said Tuesday morning on Minnesota Public Radio. "America as a country keeps on getting better." The Clinton campaign Clinton's campaign spent much of Tuesday tamping down ...

..., just for being who they are. Personally, I haven't experienced a whole lot of discrimination, but certainly some. I've also heard of such things from my elder relatives, in the Jim Crow days. I try to have sympathy, if not empathy for others; seems like the right thing to do. :-/ Natalie