Between 1910 and 1970, approximately 6 million Black people emigrated from the rural South, a movement now known as the Great Migration. Black people fled the South in such numbers because of the threat of…
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Jim Crow
Named after a pejorative caricature of Black culture, “Jim Crow” laws were a collection of state and local statues enforcing racial segregation in the American South. Immediately following the Civil War, during what is now…
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