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LETTER: Democrats compare Voter ID to Jim Crow

Las Vegas Review-Journal 13 Feb 2026
It’s Jim Crow 2.0 across the country ... The Jim Crow legislation was written by Democratic legislatures and enforced by Democratic governors ... Jim Crow 2.0 is nothing more than a smoke screen by the political party that created Jim Crow.
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Chuck Schumer faces backlash after doubling down comparing voter ID laws to ‘Jim Crow’ policies

New York Post 07 Feb 2026
It’s Jim Crow 2.0, and I called it Jim Crow 2.0, and the right-wing went nuts all over the internet,” Schumer replied ... He called it Jim Crow 2.0, and what I guarded against ... We’re not reviving Jim Crow all over the country.
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'Jim Crow 2.0': All about racial segregation laws and why Schumer linked them to SAVE Act

The Times of India 06 Feb 2026
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer recently described the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act as “nothing more than Jim Crow 2.0,” arguing that the proposal would “disenfranchise ...
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Ganucheau: The looming return of Jim Crow to America’s Blackest state

The Clarksdale Press Register 05 Feb 2026
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 effectively ended the Jim Crow era, codifying voting rights and political representation for Black people and other marginalized races in Mississippi and other Deep South states ... They called it Jim Crow.
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Schumer nukes GOP push for 'Jim Crow-era' voter ID laws in Trump-backed shutdown package

Fox News 02 Feb 2026
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., warned that if House Republicans try to jam voter ID legislation into the Trump-backed funding deal, it would be dead on arrival in the Senate.
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Gwen Patton describes the fall of Jim Crow laws in Montgomery

The Gadsden Times 27 Jan 2026
Gwen Patton reflects on the efforts behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott in this interview from Aug. 15, 2005. .
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Louisiana still imprisons people convicted by ‘Jim Crow juries’

The Real News Network 26 Jan 2026
Non-unanimous jury verdicts were a Jim Crow–era policy designed to silence Black jurors and secure convictions even when the state failed to prove its case ... Jim Crow, the Jim Crow era is kind of the era that we talk about after the Civil War.
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Ryan Coogler's Jim Crow-era vampire film 'Sinners' makes Hollywood history with 16 Oscar nominations

France24 22 Jan 2026
Ryan Coogler’s vampire epic "Sinners" dominated Oscar nominations on Thursday with a record 16 nods. The Academy also rewarded international films and handed a strong showing to Warner Bros ... .
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