jim crow

Would Have John Booth Wilks failed kills Abraham Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln Escaped? Would Have Andrew Johnson and Woodrow Wilson Never came president after Lincoln Survived and Escaped? Would Have Abraham Lincoln passing bill Civil Rights Act 1866 black people voting after Lincoln Survived...

Let's say that, in this alternate timeline, the Civil Rights Act of 1964's prohibitions on racial discrimination only apply to public institutions, rather than to both public and private institutions. Let's also say that no federal legislation prohibiting private discriminations on the basis of...

So, the 14th Amendment was probably the most significant of the Reconstruction amendments to be ratified after the Civil War. Section 3 of the 14th amendment deals with disqualifying US government officials who sided with the CSA from holding public. The text of Section 3 is the following...

What if the US bureaucracy wasn't segregated in the 1910s? Say Woodrow Wilson doesn't get elected or that he doesn't impose Jim Crow in the civil service for whatever reason. How would race relations and civil rights evolve from then on? Could something like the Civil Rights Act be passed...

If the Confederates had won the Civil War, what effect would it have on segregation in the remaining Union states? The states of Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware all had jim crow laws, would they be allowed to still do so when a third of the country split off for the...

Since this is the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries I'll put the WI here. In 1896, decades after the end of Reconstruction, the state of North Carolina elected Daniel Lindsay Russell, a Republican, to the governorship by a margin of less than ten thousand votes. Russell, who had a majority in...

What if the Nazi government get the idea, that in order to keep the U.S. out of the war it starts to infiltrate the KKK in the South in the late 1930s? And get them to start a campaign of insurgency against the federal government in the South? This uprising keeps the US out of the war until mid...

First, to check, how plausible do you think it is for William McKinley and/or the Republican Party to pick this man to be the running mate in 1900? Second (if it is at least somewhat plausible), supposing this had happened and that McKinley was still assassinated September 1901 - what is his...

Ok, this is one of my personal favorite short stories, especially when it comes to Alternate History. While it's never a specific with the order, it does hint at a interesting timeline. The point of divergence seems to be during Woodrow Wilson's term. Here is the timeline. During the dark days...

What if the redeemers had been stopped and freedmen weren't denied the right to vote? How would politics be different? I'd assume blacks would be a very left wing group as IOTL. I think that with a south that worked to support rather than block progressive reforms, we'd be more like Canada or...

Hello everyone! Some of you may remember that a while back, I posted a thread about Joshua Chamberlain becoming president. After extensive research on Chamberlain and the politics of the early 1880s, this timeline is the result of some of the ideas from that thread. Technically our POD here is...