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*Jim Crow Laws

-Jim Crow Laws were laws created by white southerners to enforce racial segregation across the South from the 1870's to the 1960's.

*Segregation

-Segregation is the action of separating people based on their race and/or gender.

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The connection with racism then and now is that we still have systemic racism and racial inequality. Also, the connections between them and now highlight the enduring legacy of Jim Crow Laws and the ongoing struggle to achieve true racial equity and justice in American society.

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*Persistence of racial inequality and discrimination

-Racial inequality means "the result of hierarchical social distinctions between racial and ethnic categories within a society."

-Racial discrimination means any discrimination against any individual on the basis of their race, ancestry, ethnicity, or skin color.

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*Booker T. Washington

-Booker T. Washington was an educator and reformer, the first president and principle developer of the Tuskegee Institute

*Ida B. Wells

-Ida B. Wells was an African American journalist and civil rights advocate.

*Web Dubois

-Web Dubois was an early leader of the civil rights movement in the United States.

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The connection from then to now is that there are so many reformers working to defeat racism and they are slowly fixing peoples point of views, The connection from then and now is that they both wanted to expand equality for colored people.

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*Adrienne Maree Brown

-Adrienne Maree Brown was an activist, writer, and fasilitator

*Tarana Burke

-Tarana Burke started the #MeToo movement in 2006

*Kimberle Crenshaw

-Kimberle Crenshaw is a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights, critical race theory, and black feminist legal theory.

*Patrisse Cullors

*Roxane Gay

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*National Association For The Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

-The NAACP 's mission is to ensure the political, educational, equality of minority group citizens of States and eliminate race prejudice.

*Tuskegee Institute

-The Tuskegee Institute's purpose was the first institution of higher learning for African Americans.

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The connection from then and now is that they both wanted to expand equality for colored people. There is an ongoing effort to broaden equality for people of color.

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*Advancing equality

-Racial inequality is improving from because the Biden-Harris Administration has championed racial equity and further advanced equal opportunity for underserved communities.

*Racial justice through the federal government

-On January 20, 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 13985 on “Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.”