Black graves are being moved to make way for an industrial park in Virginia, drawing a mix of emotions
A decision to move the remains of hundreds African American tenant farmers from a former Virginia tobacco plantation to a ...
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Activists are warning of a return to the Jim Crow era in America. But who or what was Jim Crow?
The term Jim Crow refers to the long period in US history when black Americans could not exercise the same rights of citizenship as white Americans. “Jim Crow” segregation began when slavery ...
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Black graves are being moved to make way for an industrial park, drawing a mix of emotions
according to “The Hairstons,” a 1999 book by Henry Wiencek that chronicles the Black and white Hairston families. Samuel Hairston, the plantation's owner, was reputedly the largest enslaver in ...