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Black Jockeys Were Once the Backbone of the Kentucky Derby, Now They've Been All But Forgotten Over Time

Black jockeys have a long-sorted history in horse racing as we look back on the 150th Kentucky Derby. ....

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Inside the overlooked history of black horse race jockeys

During the earliest years of the Kentucky Derby, black jockeys rode most of the winning horses. But then Jim Crow arrived and white jockeys took their place. Now a new generation of African-American sportsmen is helping to honor this untold legacy. ....

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Jim Crow in the saddle | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal

Allison Shertzer, Randall Walsh
The legacy of Jim Crow continues to this day. Contemporary historians, such as Chernow (2017), have cast off the traditional depiction of the ‘carpetbagger era’ and have documented the official and unofficial repression of African Americans in the post-Civil War period. Economic research, such as Lisa Cook’s (2014) study of the dearth of patents for African American inventors, has shown how Blacks and whites have been harmed by the aftereffects of Jim Crow. Some in the popular literature have drawn a link between the incomplete task of Reconstruction and recent political violence, such as the assault on the US Capitol (Cineas 2021). ....

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