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looks at the century of segregation following the Civil War (1863-1954). "Jim Crow," a name taken from a popular 19th-century minstrel song, came to personify government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the U.S. This website describes pivotal developments during that time—the Emancipation Proclamation, the Compromise of 1877, the Brown v. Board of Education decision, and others. (WNET, National Endowment for the Humanities)
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In 1946, Irene Morgan, a black woman, boarded a bus in Virginia to go to Baltimore. She was ordered to sit in the back of the bus, as Virginia law required. |
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May 17, 1954 |
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