The Reconstruction / Jim Crow Era

Untold numbers of black men, women, and children fearlessly resisted white supremacy in the South during the Jim Crow era, often risking their own very lives. It is impossible to know how many of the African Americans lynched by white mobs were men and women who had challenged Jim Crow by some evident act of defiance, such as walking proudly down the street or talking back to whites rather than stepping aside. Most of the …

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