Jim Crow
December 19, 2014 -
George Stinney, Jr. did not receive fair trial in a murder case in the Jim Crow South, a judge says.
April 25, 2014 -
Mabel Williams, who with her husband, Robert F. Williams, advocated armed self-defense against racist violence in Jim Crow North Carolina, has passed away. In exile in Cuba during the 1960s, she and her husband launched Radio Free Dixie and published the influential underground newsletter The Crusader.
December 20, 2013 -
As part of its controversial new elections law, North Carolina will no longer count provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct -- leading a new report from the Fair Elections Legal Network to accuse it of moving in the wrong direction on voting rights.
October 22, 2013 -
The Virginia-based Tea Party Leadership Fund argues that requiring it to disclose its donors puts them in danger comparable to what NAACP members faced in Alabama in the 1950s. Campaign finance watchdogs beg to differ.
October 1, 2013 -
The Justice Department wants to subject the entire state to preapproval for any elections changes under Section Three of the Voting Rights Act -- not just the 40 counties previously covered under the law's now-defunct Section Five.
August 22, 2013 -
As the 50th anniversary of the historic march nears, there are a few points that cannot be overlooked if we want to honor its true story, writes Bill Fletcher Jr.
August 14, 2013 -
Mrs. Rosanell Eaton once fought for voting rights under Jim Crow. Now she and other civil rights advocates are fighting for voting rights under North Carolina's Republican government.
