Posts Tagged ‘American history’
The Five Pillars of Jim Crow
“Jim Crow” refers to a five-part system developed in the late 1800s and early 1900s to support white supremacy and oppress black citizens. Although there were laws that discriminated against African Americans throughout the country, the Jim Crow system existed only in the South. This exhibit briefly describes the five oppressions of the Jim Crow system.
Read MoreWho Was the First African American?
Henry Louise Gates Jr. dispels a myth about African immigrants to America and introduces readers to the man with the honors of being first.
Read MoreMaking America America
Many Black Americans don’t feel as if they quite belong, which can have a reaching impact on American life and politics.
Read MoreHow Many Slaves Landed in the US?
Henry Louis Gates Jr. examines how many people were kidnapped from Africa and forced into enslavement in the west.
Read MoreWho Will Mourn George Whitmore?
George Whitmore’s experience in the criminal justice system and court of public opinion, only to be forgotten, leaves us questioning.
Read MoreAnti-Amalgamation Law Passed This Day in 1664
More than 350 years ago, Maryland made interracial marriages illegal between white women and Black men with the anti-amalgamation law.
Read MoreVoting Rights for Blacks and Poor Whites in the Jim Crow South
From about 1900 to 1965, most African Americans were not allowed to vote in the South. White people in power used many methods to keep black people from voting. Some of these methods also prevented poor white people from voting. Today there are still laws and customs that make it harder for African Americans, other minorities, and some whites to vote.
Read MoreThe Education of Black Children in the Jim Crow South
Education is the key to economic success. It is true now, and it was true in the Jim Crow South. Southern education was not very good – even for white children. But education for blacks in the South in the early 1900s was worse in many ways. In this exhibit you can learn what school was like for most African American children in the South – and why.
Read MoreToday Marks the Founding of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Many who don’t know the Association for the Study of African American Life and History know the Black History Month it inspired.
Read MoreInheriting Home: The Skeletons in Pa’s Closet
With its store of family memories, Arkansas defines home for me. But embracing and claiming it as my own is prickly business. “Home” has closets of skeletons that are anything but comforting: the Lost Cause, Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, lynchings.
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