jim crow laws

Grapes of Wrath by the Undercover Research Team As the Great Grape Boycott carries onto another summer, Listen Magazine now turns to a real person of this struggle, the farmer. Marina Jalos*, a grape picker for the Giumarra Vineyard Corporation and a single mother of two, of Modesto, CA tells Listen her life in the field. She, herself, has never met Cesar Chavez, in head of the UFWOC (United Farm Workers Organization Committee) who is …

…blow against the Jim Crow system of racial segregation was struck in 1954 by the Supreme Court's decision in Brown VS. Topeka Board of Education which declared segregation in the public schools unconstitutional. However, the Bus Boycott and the further hardship of blacks like voting registration restrictions in the South can no longer be dismissed. So we ask, if you are or have been victimized from any ‘Jim Crow’ law please write us about your experience.