HFW Session 6: The Rise of Jim Crow – Containment and Control

After Reconstruction was overthrown, white supremacy reinvented itself. The rise of Jim Crow marked a new era of control — one enforced through segregation, criminalization, and the myth of “separate but equal.”

In this session, we’ll explore how the systems of power created during slavery and Reconstruction evolved into laws, institutions, and cultural norms designed to contain Black freedom. We’ll trace the connections between the 1800s and today — from segregation to mass incarceration, from lynch mobs to policing, from “Black codes” to “law and order.”

We’ll also lift up the ways our people continued to build, organize, and thrive through it all.

📅 Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2025

🕡 Time: 6:30–8:30 PM EST

📍 Where: Zoom (Black folks only)