For the assignment this week, I decided in chapter eight lesson three Segregation and Descrimination to go more in-depth about the Jim Crow laws. The name of laws was said to come from the popular song and dance, "Jump Jim Crow", where a white actor would be in make-up to portray a black man and would preform comedy and act racist. The laws mandated de jure segregation in all public places. That stated that the blacks and whites were seperate but equal.
Overall, the laws were state and local laws that were active between 1876 and 1965. They were ultimately overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which put them to the end. Segregation was the most moving thing that took part in these laws. The white and black's treatment was different along with their schools and public facilities and even the United States Military.During the Reconstruction of the south, the federal law gave protection to the slaves that were freed in the south. The Democrats slowly took back over the south and white Democrats had eventually taken over power in every southern state. In the 1880's blacks could still be elected in local offices, but more laws were passed to make voter registration and election more difficult, causing blacks and poor whites not to participate.
The Progressive Era was when African Americans were being seperated from the general population and it was becoming legal. During any kind of sport or church event, even when the Jim Crow Laws were not present, everything was being shaped into a segregated culture. The first time the word "racism" was used in a Sepreme Court opinion was said by Associate Justice Frank Murphy in 1944.
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