Do we have evidence that these individuals committed specific acts against African-Americans during Jim Crow?

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Jim DeMint's term, making the former congressman the first African-American Republican senator serving since Ed Brooke of Massachusetts in the 1970s.

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Kerry's campaign announced it would receive the endorsement of Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-South Carolina, a widely respected leader in the African-American community.

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Jim Clyburn, the most powerful black politician in the state and the only African-American member of the congressional delegation is the master of ceremony.

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He recalled how for half of his life, African-Americans like him weren't allowed to vote under the laws of Jim Crow segregation.

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Du Bois composed his text during Jim Crow, a time of official racial segregation that deliberately obscured to the wider world the human details of African-American life.

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