Jim Crow

At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina; there is a colored-waiting sign to signify where African Americans were allowed to wait. 

<p><span class="deck">When one weary woman refused to be harassed out of her seat in the bus, the whole shaky edifice of Jim Crow began to totter</span></p>

<p>In the 19^th Century, white performers invented the minstrel show, the first uniquely American entertainment form</p>
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<p><span class="deck">BORN IN SLAVERY AND RAISED IN ITS PAINFUL AFTERMATH TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AMERICAN ICONS, SHE HAS BEEN MADE TO ENCOMPASS LOVE AND GUILT AND RIDICULE AND WORSHIP, AND STILL SHE LIVES ON.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Before there was William Faulkner, there was the small Southern universe of Oxford, Mississippi.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">He was to turn a segregated little army within an army into the world’s first black pursuit squadron</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In William Faulkner’s greatest work, a bitter epic of violence and despair resolves itself on a note of love and longing.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Is it a symbol of a brave past or a banner of treason? And is there perhaps another Southern standard to be raised?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">…And the real secret in Strom Thurmond’s past</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Separate and Unequal and Unconstitutional</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Although marred by the grisly murders of three young activists, the Freedom Summer of 1964 brought revolutionary changes to Mississippi and the nation.</span></p>

<p>He was a lieutenant in the Army of the United States: he saw no reason to sit in the back of the bus</p>

<p>Dubbed the “AAA guide for black people,” the underground travel manual encapsulated how automobile travel expanded — and limited — African American lives under Jim Crow.</p>

<p>An honest telling of history, including deeply disturbing events such as the murder of Emmett Till, allows us to look at our past in a richer and more meaningful way. </p>