A white Republican voter in Ohio called C-SPAN’s Washington Journal program on Monday to assert that she is too busy working to “have time to be racist,” then falsely claimed that Black ...

Credit: Library of Congress The Jim Crow system was upheld by local ... that there were separate facilities was to say to black people and white people that blacks were so subhuman and so inferior ...

The term Jim Crow refers to the long period in US history when black Americans could not exercise the same rights of citizenship as white Americans. “Jim Crow” segregation began when slavery ...