Tag: Jim Crow laws
Freedom Riders’ 1947 Convictions Vacated in North Carolina
Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they...
California panel OKs reparations limit for slave descendants
By JANIE HAR, Associated Press
California's first-in-the-nation task force on reparations has decided to limit state compensation to the descendants of free and enslaved Black...
Weber Shares Thoughts on Framework for Reparations Eligibility
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media
California Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber shared her thoughts on who should be compensated for the...
Black man behind ‘separate but equal’ ruling is pardoned
By Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press
Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad...
Homer Plessy, key to ‘separate but equal,’ on road to pardon
By Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press
A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a “whites-only" railroad car to...
