Gayle “Asali” Dickson provides historical context for Jim Crow — legalized racial segregation in the United States, beginning shortly after the emancipation in 1865 of enslaved African-Americans and lasting for almost a century. She reads what Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III (Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, United States) said after his 2025 Easter sermon: reconstruction (1865-1877), which began when the U.S. Civil War ended in 1865, was followed by the ‘redemption movement’ period thereafter, in which plantation owners in the southern part of the U.S. took actions to “take the country back and make the south great again.” The Reverand asserted that Jim Crow started with the redemption movement and was written into law, accompanied by propaganda that painted black people as lazy and untrustworthy and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) as the heroes of the south. Asali describes the Jim Crow era as a white supremacist reaction to the ascendancy during reconstruction of African-American lawyers, educators, and other professionals and leaders. “It was legalized terror,” she says.
Gayle Asali Dickson: the Historical Context of Jim Crow
Gayle “Asali” Dickson explains the historical context of Jim Crow, which, according to some, came about from the ‘redemption movement’ led by plantation owners in southern United States, who were unhappy with the ascendancy of black leaders during reconstruction.
Gayle Asali Dickson (she) is an artist, storyteller, activist, a former minister, and long-time member of the Black Panther Party, for whom she helped run several of their social services programs and the Black Panther Party newspaper.
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