Jim Crow

A photograph by Hugh Mangum from Photos Day or Night: The Archive of HughMangum, by Sarah Stacke with texts by Maurice Wallace and Martha Sumler, Hugh Mangum's granddaughter. Image courtesy of Hugh Mangum Photographs, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manus

Arts

Photos Day Or Night: How One Photographer Documented The Segregated South

7:01am December 23, 2018

by Sarah Stacke

Evident in the new book, "Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum," is a playfulness that was unlike the work of any other photographer from the turn of the 20th century.

The exterior of the Supreme Court of Louisiana in New Orleans.

National

'Jim Crow's Last Stand' In Louisiana May Fall To Ballot Measure

8:13am November 04, 2018

by Debbie Elliott

Louisiana is one of only two states in the country that allow non-unanimous juries to convict defendants. A ballot measure will be voted on Tuesday that would amend the state's constitution.

Race

After 80 Years Hayes-Taylor YMCA To Be Razed But Powerful Memories Remain

5:30pm October 23, 2018

by David Ford

Next week, the Hayes-Taylor Memorial YMCA in Greensboro will be razed.

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Percy White Jr. holds his son Percy White III, circa 1963.

National

'Him Doing Well Was Through His Children': Sharecropper's Son Makes Dad Proud

5:05am August 03, 2018

When Percy White's father left the Virginia farm he worked to move north, the land owner said he wouldn't make it, and would come back. He didn't. That is, until he returned to say "I told you so."

Human Interest

Remembering Civil Rights Attorney J. Kenneth Lee

3:24pm July 27, 2018

by David Ford

People across North Carolina are remembering civil rights icon J. Kenneth Lee, who passed away earlier this month.

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The National Memorial for Peace and Justice to honor thousands of people killed in racist lynchings opens Thursday in Montgomery, Ala.

National

Lynching Memorial In Alabama Remembers The Victims Of Unacknowledged Terror

8:52am April 26, 2018

by Samantha Raphelson

The first memorial honoring the victims of lynching across the American South opens Thursday in Montgomery, Ala. The non-profit Equal Justice Initiative documented the names of 4,400 victims.

Billy Graham's Civil Rights Stance: Theological Principle And Careerist Caution

7:00am February 22, 2018

by David Ford

During much of Billy Graham's long and influential life, the nation's best-known Christian evangelist largely kept his distance from volatile political and social issues of the day.

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In a speech at the Golden Globes, Oprah Winfrey told the story of Recy Taylor's violent rape by six white men in 1944. Taylor, pictured above, died last month at age 97. Her attackers were never prosecuted.

'Recy Taylor's Rape Still Haunts Us'

5:43pm January 14, 2018

by Michel Martin

At the Golden Globes, Oprah Winfrey told the story of Recy Taylor's rape in 1944. Taylor died last month at 97. NPR's Michel Martin reflects on their 2011 interview and why her story still haunts us.

Francine Anderson grew up in a small town in Virginia in the 1950s. She says that when she was 5 years old, she first realized that the color of her skin could put her in danger.

National

After 60 Years, Girl's Experience At Whites-Only Gas Station Still Hurts

4:29am August 18, 2017

An African-American woman remembers growing up in segregated Virginia in the 1950s, and being in the car when her father tried to get gas from a whites-only truck stop.

Sybil Morial has written a memoir about growing up in segregated New Orleans.

'Witness To Change' Recounts Civil Rights Struggles Of New Orleans

6:00pm March 13, 2016

Sybil Morial's memoir details her formative experiences living under Jim Crow laws.

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