Jim Crow laws
Documentation of segregation laws, their enforcement, and their devastating impact on Black communities.
Jim Crow laws (15 articles)
Documentation of segregation laws, their enforcement, and their devastating impact on Black communities.
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 (Jan) | Discrimination | In 1911 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns race-based segregation as dehumanizing, a caste undermining democracy, education, and civil life. |
| 1913 (Feb) | Burleson | 1913 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns Burleson’s push to segregate the federal civil service, links race exclusion to lynching, and urges action. |
| 1913 (Apr) | The “Jim Crow” Argument | In 1913 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns Jim Crow segregation as a racial tyranny that destroys democracy and insists on social equality. |
| 1913 (Jun) | Education | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) warns democracy is at risk unless lynching, disfranchisement and racial discrimination are confronted. |
| 1916 (Feb) | Carrizal | In The Crisis (1916), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns U.S. racism: Carrizal’s Black soldiers’ sacrifice exposes hypocrisy—honored in death, denied rights in life. |
| 1917 (Mar) | The Black Bastille | In 1917 in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns America’s ‘Black Bastille’ of racial prejudice that undermines democracy and demands its abolition. |
| 1919 (May) | A Statement | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) declares a critical racial moment, urging lawful resistance, NAACP organizing, and a fight against Jim Crow. |
| 1919 (Jun) | Votes | In 1919 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues Black suffrage is the central racial struggle: Northern voters can restore democracy, end Southern disfranchisement. |
| 1920 (Mar) | Forward | W.E.B. Du Bois urges in The Crisis (1920) a renewed NAACP campaign against lynching, Jim Crow, and for the Black ballot and racial democracy. |
| 1920 (May) | Get Ready | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) calls on Black Americans to prepare, defend voting rights, and legally resist Southern efforts to disfranchise Black women. |
| 1921 (Feb) | Reduced Representation in Congress | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) urges reducing Southern congressional seats under the 14th Amendment to punish disfranchisement and defend democracy. |
| 1922 (May) | 7000 | In 1922 W.E.B. Du Bois documents a 7,000-mile lecture tour in The Crisis, exposing Jim Crow, lynching, and Black life while urging racial democracy. |
| 1922 (May) | Inter-Racial Comity | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1922) urges interracial committees to act on race, the vote, Jim Crow, peonage and mob-law, warning against complacency. |
| 1926 (May) | Disenfranchisement | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1926) that Southern disenfranchisement of Black voters undermines democracy and fuels white supremacy. |
| 1934 (Jan) | Scottsboro | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1934) condemns Scottsboro trials as racial injustice — Southern courts using law to punish Black lives for profit and prejudice. |
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