Jim Crow

Obama Uses Commencement Address to Recall Jim Crow, Racism

'...as a black man like you...'

12:12 PM, May 19, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER
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Democrats: Republicans Worse than Jim Crow

4:09 PM, Dec 16, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

In a fundraising letter sent out this afternoon by the Democratic National Committee, Will Crossley, counsel and voter protection director, asks folks to support his party because, he implies, Republican efforts to suppress voters are worse than Jim Crow-era laws.

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Confederate Statehouse Photo

Unamicable Split

South to North: Hello, I must be going.

Aug 15, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 45 • By EDWIN M. YODER JR.

Visual memories, especially those of boyish vintage, tend to be inexact but I am pretty confident of this one: Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton was a short, gnomish, balding figure, longtime chairman of the history department at the University of North Carolina, and founder of the great Southern Historical Collection there. And more to the present point, a valued friend and mentor to my father and his older brother, who had studied under him in the 1920s.

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Justice Thomas Defends 'Citizens United' Decision

Justice Thomas Defends 'Citizens United' Decision

10:40 AM, Feb 4, 2010 • By MARY KATHARINE HAM

As Philip Terzian noted, Justice Thomas spoke at a law school this week where he addressed student questions about the Citizens United decision. Because it's just plain fun to hear justices get candid—particularly Thomas and Scalia— I'm pulling out some quotes from the event:

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