Jim Crow Laws

This comprehensive report analyzes the potential impacts of "Project 2025," a radical political blueprint created by the Heritage Foundation, on Black communities in the United States. The report dissects Project …

enacted racial apartheid laws, also known as Jim Crow laws, to deprive Black people of their full citizenship … Thurgood Marshall founded LDF to challenge Jim Crow laws,3 which undermined the project of U.S. democracy …

More than two years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization1 overturned the federal right to abortion, ignoring the legal precedent set …

evolved into police departments meant to enforce Jim Crow laws, which were rooted in racism and white supremacy … h%20Amendment.pdf. 56. Jason Silverstein, “Jim Crow Laws Are Gone But They’re Still Making Black People … https://www.vice.com/en/article/health-effects-jim-crow-laws-cancer. 57. See Sarah St. Vincent, “What Do …

From the abolition of slavery until now, Southern white elites have used a slew of tactics to suppress Black political power and secure their economic interests—including violence, voter suppression, gerrymandering, …

Southern leaders adopted Black Codes and later Jim Crow laws to entrench white supremacy and maintain an … Reconstruction quickly met a violent backlash, with Jim Crow laws ushering in a new era of racialized political … barriers to voting established by Black Codes and Jim Crow laws, 25 states still have some form of felony disenfranchisement …

David's passing is felt deeply within the Institute, among those who advance classical liberal values worldwide, and by so many across the breadth of the political and philosophical spectrum who …

income tax rates, sodomy and obscenity laws, Jim Crow laws, wage and price controls, and entry into transportation …

Too many of the radical students at the time, and the professors and philosophers whose views affected them, interpreted the physical world through a conceptual superstructure that is established by …

instruction on the institution of slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the failure of Reconstruction to heal all …

This essay provides a review of two important recent books on economic growth: How the World Became Rich by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin and Slouching Towards Utopia, by J. …

center policy evolution on the transition from Jim Crow laws and the many discriminatory laws and regulations …

We show that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades and use these trends to study the causal mechanisms underlying changes in economic mobility. For white …

rates of slavery before 1860 (Berger, 2018), Jim Crow laws from 1870-1960 (Althoff and Reichardt, 2024) …

We examine racial discrimination in the New Deal by examining access to work relief. The Federal Government prohibited racial discrimination in work relief programs. However, eligibility was determined by local …

numerous ways included support for slavery, Jim Crow Laws, segregated and unequal schools, inadequate … and Economic Power of the Black Population Jim Crow laws kept most Black citizens from voting in southern …

Those who experienced racial discrimination are more likely to say these institutions intentionally or negligently harm Black people.

history, from slavery to the implementation of Jim Crow laws in the South, to the rise of mass incarceration …

Reparations proposals typically target wealth. Yet slavery’s and Jim Crow’s long echoes also steal time, such as by producing shorter Black lifespans even today. I argue that lost time should …

(Reece 2022). Second, I examine counts of Jim Crow laws passed by each state before 1950. These laws … large long- term economic consequences of both Jim Crow laws and Jim Crow school quality, using data on … components) is 0.89, and with the count of Jim Crow laws (a much simplified version of which is one … pro- portion enslaved in 1860, the count of Jim Crow laws, and the quality of Jim Crow schools—are reported … Jim Crow states. Additionally, the count of Jim Crow laws is also reported without Louisiana, which passed …