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Filmmaker Crystal Kwok speaks to a customer at shop featured in the film,"Blurring the Color Line."

‘I want people to have uncomfortable conversations’: A new documentary explores Chinese and Black relations in the Jim Crow South

Race

Crystal Kwok is the director of “Blurring the Color Line,” a new documentary about her family’s experience in Augusta, Georgia, and the relationships between Chinese Americans and Black people during the Jim Crow era.

Freedmen voting in New Orleans in 1867.

Revolutions and lasting change: Part I

Critical State
George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver overcame segregation and Jim Crow laws to become one of America’s most influential scientists

Science

NAACP turning to U.N. as it protests ‘concerted attack’ on minority voting rights

Global Politics

The Changing Face of the South

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Jim Crow: The Supreme Court’s Fault?

Immediately after the end of the Civil War, Congress drafted and pushed to ratify the 14th  and 15th amendments to the Constitution, which were intended to guarantee African-Americans full equality under the law.  But despite these amendments, Jim Crow laws quickly took hold of much of the nation, stripping African-Americans of such basic rights as serving on […]

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