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A young boy, Jim Aherne Jr., is the only survivor of a wagon-train raid by Crow Indians. Sioux Indians rescue Jim, and Chief Yellow Eagle raises him as a Sioux, renaming him War Bonnet. When Jim grows to maturity, his loyalties between his tribe and his white heritage are questioned.
It is a murder mystery set in a segregated regiment of the U.S Army commanded by White officers and training in the Jim Crow South. In a time and place where a Black commissioned officer is bitterly resented by nearly everyone, an African-American JAG captain investigates the murder of an African-American drill sergeant in Louisiana following ...
Rembert stretched, tooled, and dyed leather, using shoe dye to depict scenes from the rural Jim Crow south where he was born and raised. As the colors in shoe dye that were available to him became more vivid, so did his paintings.
Windwalker is a 1981 Western film directed by Kieth Merrill and written by Ray Goldrup, based on a novel by Blaine M. Yorgason.It stars Trevor Howard and Nick Ramus.The film is set in the pre-colonial Intermountain West, and focuses on the life of a Cheyenne man, who comes back to life to protect his family from Crow warriors and be reunited with his long-lost son.
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South is a 2016 non-fiction book by American author Beth Macy.The book tells the story of George and Willie Muse, two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and forced to perform as sideshow attractions because they were albinos.
But its residents knew white people could use violence to enforce Jim Crow elsewhere. In 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley stayed in the town during breaks in the trial of two white men accused of torturing ...
Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida went on on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" with Joy Reid to defend comments he made that Jim Crow, a period of racial violence and segregation, was an era when “the Black ...
The white-dominated legislature enacted Jim Crow laws that established racial segregation and institutionalized efforts to impose white supremacy. The decades around the turn of the century were the period of the highest rate of lynchings across the South. White landowners often underpaid sharecroppers for their crops and paid when they saw fit.