Jim Crow Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/jim-crow Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Fri, 15 May 2026 15:01:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg Jim Crow Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/jim-crow 32 32 White Power Grab: a Modern GOP founded in the 1980s but rooted in the 1880s https://www.halphillips.net/unprecedented-nope-modern-gop-still-harking-back-to-the-80s-the-1880s?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unprecedented-nope-modern-gop-still-harking-back-to-the-80s-the-1880s https://www.halphillips.net/unprecedented-nope-modern-gop-still-harking-back-to-the-80s-the-1880s#respond Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:27:33 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=3977 TULSA, Okla. (June 12, 2020) — With word that President Donald Trump planned to resume his in-person political rallies in Oklahoma next — on Juneteenth, a commemoration of slavery’s end and black America’s biggest secular holiday — the 40-year strategy of Republican dog-whistling finally came to a close. The event will take place here Tulsa, […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/unprecedented-nope-modern-gop-still-harking-back-to-the-80s-the-1880s/feed 0 Voter Suppression: NC Legislature Earns ‘Commendation’ for Self-Hating Political Mendacity https://www.halphillips.net/nc-legislature-earns-commendation-for-self-hating-political-mendacity?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nc-legislature-earns-commendation-for-self-hating-political-mendacity https://www.halphillips.net/nc-legislature-earns-commendation-for-self-hating-political-mendacity#respond Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:38:25 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=3438 RALEIGH, N.C. (Dec. 10, 2018) — The term Jim Crow is rightly loaded down with socio-racial connotations. But it’s important to recognize that, at its core, Jim Crow was a political system. Yes, a central byproduct was a social system that consigned black folk to second/third class citizenship. But this construct was enabled and perpetuated […]

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