The Dangerous Spread of Jim Crow Nostalgia

The Dangerous Spread of Jim Crow Nostalgia

With inaccurate claims about Black Americans’ poverty and crime rates having migrated from the far-right fringe to mainstream outlets like the Wall Street Journal, it is worth considering what the data actually say. Doing so will show that there is no empirical basis for such claims, only an ideological one.

Jim Crow, Title IX and the Facts of Life

Nancy Jane Moore grew up near Houston in the 1950s and '60s. Decades later she contributed to "Whites Remember Jim Crow," a collection of reminiscences that accompanied a 2001 American RadioWorks documentary about racism in the segregated South. "I remember the little things," she recalled, "like the first time I realized that the gas station where we did business had three restrooms: women, men and ‘colored.' " She was "particularly appalled" t…