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Jim Crow

African American Nurses at Camp Sherman

In 1918 and 2020, race colors America’s response to epidemics

A look at how Jim Crow affected the treatment of African Americans fighting the Spanish flu

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Culture
Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson

Black History Month poetic tribute: Jackie Robinson

He thrived while enduring hate and vitriol

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The Uplift
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Jackie Robinson was asked to denounce Paul Robeson. Instead, he went after Jim Crow.

His testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee was a turning point for the baseball hero

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Sports
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‘Separate and Equal,’ a new play about race and basketball in Jim Crow Alabama, trips over its subject matter

Birmingham Civil Rights Museum and University of Alabama jointly produced the play

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Culture
Mose+Waiting

Oscar-nominated film about Emmett Till contemplates how racial terror affects those left behind

Kevin Wilson Jr., the director of ‘My Nephew Emmett,’ is still in film school

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Culture
Recy Taylor

Recy Taylor, subject of new documentary about the rape of black women during Jim Crow, has died

97-year-old was at a nursing home in the same Alabama town where she had been attacked

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Culture
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‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’ explores the little-known terror campaign against black women

Just as black men were lynched, black women faced systemic sexual violence under Jim Crow

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Culture

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