Effects Of The Jim Crow Laws

Another factor in the 1930’s that impacted African Americans is Jim Crow. The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. The Jim Crow laws affected African Americans by creating a status of 'separate but equal.' African Americans were not, under the Jim Crow laws, allowed to drink from the same water fountains as white people. They had to attend different schools, restaurants, and sit at the back of the bus. The Jim Crow laws affected almost every area of the life of African Americans. The Jim Crow laws took the first hit in 1954 in the ruling by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional.

Before there were players such as Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball was strictly white players only. The color line of Major League Baseball excluded black players until the late 40’s. This didn’t stop the colored men of America from playing the beloved American sport. The creation of the Negro Leagues in 1920 by Rube Foster gave colored men a chance to play in their own professional league, similar to the Major Leagues, but for African-American men. The creation of the Negro Leagues was a result of the Jim Crow Laws, state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period in the U.S., these laws continued in force until 1965. These laws created

Jim Crow Laws was caused due to many unhappy white southerners who weren’t happy about the ending of slavery. In addition, many white people also didn’t agree/like the fact that they would have to work with African Americans. Later on, there were “Black Codes,” which was a law in the southern states declaring that many African Americans wouldn’t have as much freedom. Also, “black codes” would make them not get paid the same amount as white southerners, and they would get paid lower wages and debts as well. For instance, the black codes also restricted civil and political rights for African Americans: a limit of freedom of employment, freedom of movement, the right to own land, and their freedom to testify in court.

Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor and the only surviving member of his family who spent several years in a concentration camp, stated, “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure

In the same way, the issue of racism was more opposed to people and was more openly abused in the past compare to present. African Americans were mistreated, and were slaved for a long time, and they did not have any rights until the 18th century. In 1865 and 1866 Southern states passed a laws called "black codes" which was meant to limit the rights of black and segregate them from whites; however, during the 1865 African American believed that the process of reconstruction would bring equality. The main object of reconstruction was to help African Americans become equal citizens, but reconstruction failed to help them, because the Southerners were not willing to accept the laws that were placed to give rights to the African Americans.

The reason as to why Jim Crow laws came about in the South came to hold so much power during their life has to do with a waning of the forces that had long held the Southern racists in check. The elements of fear, jealousy, and fanaticism were allowed to rise to prominence when such forces as Northern liberal opinions in the press and the higher levels of government, internal checks instituted by the Southern conservatives and idealistic radicals. “What happened toward the end of the century was an almost simultaneous – and sometimes not unrelated – decline in the effectiveness of restraint that had been exercised by all three forces: Northern liberalism, Southern conservatism, and Southern radicalism” (69). Northern liberalism’s power waned with the Supreme Court’s decisions such as Hall v. de Cuir in 1877 which stated that a state could not prohibit segregation, or Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 which the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine was clearly established (72-73). Southern conservatism, previously one of the newly freed Negroes’ greatest allies in the South after the war, changed their tune when they had to eradicate the carpetbaggers in the South. They needed the extreme racist

Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws passed that segregated African Americans from white Americans in all public places in the South. These laws prevented African Americans from attending the same schools as white people or sitting in the same section on a bus. These laws started after the Reconstruction period in the Southern United States and almost everything became segregated. They segregated bathrooms, restaurants, and even drinking fountains.

After the Civil War, the southern United States was in pieces. The land had been demolished, the economy was in the gutter, and plantation owners no longer had a source of cheap labor. In order to keep the newly freed African-Americans socially below white people, Jim Crow Laws were made. Jim Crow Laws were laws that segregated people of color and whites. These laws prevented African-Americans from using the same facilities as whites, completing daily tasks, and limited the exchange between African-Americans and whites. Jim Crow laws were in place for about 100 years. From the end of the Civil War, to the end of the Civil Rights Movement these laws had an effect on the

The Jim Crow laws were established to create segregation between racial groups in the south. They segregated African Americans from other racial groups in schools, restaurants, and public transportation, and backtracked towards slavery. The results of the Jim Crow Laws would be in effect of years to

America on the road to rebuilding its self to its former glory. The once great President Lincoln recently assassinated now hands the country over to Andrew Johnson. And throughout this entire time blacks have suffered but, pushed on in hope of a better future. Out of the three codes (laws) created, the Jim Crow Laws had the greatest negative impact on the blacks. Slave codes, determine the status of slave owners and the rights of the slave, Black codes, laws passed by Southern states, in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War, Jim Crow Laws, legalized segregation between blacks and whites. While moving towards the future is a major key, the first step is also one of the most important.

Over the years the African American citizen has come up against laws that have prevented them from being fully integrated citizens. One such law group of laws that made the most impact was most commonly known as Jim Crow laws. These were a group of laws that were put in place to enforce segregation mostly in the Southern

Since the beginnings of the United States there has always been some form of racism, whether it be individual, institutional, or systematic. Racism can be defined as prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. In the US today this racism is seen in many forms from a simple comment to a violent action. Recent actions such as the Dakota pipeline and the new mass incarceration system have begun to show new forms of racism. The way the systems work and progress is tremendously depended on people of color and the discrimination towards them. The fact that both the Dakota pipeline and the mass incarceration systems hugely relays on those of color being oppressed and controlled is in its self a blatant act of racism.

“You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.” (Anna Deavere Smith). But today, however, we almost vanquished all of Jim Crow law today. But before it was all just Racism around the blacks, voting prevention for the blacks, and justice for all black citizens.

How would you feel if you were a black living in the time that Jim Crow laws existed? Living Jim Crow had laws that were set in place for the blacks that stated “equal but separate facilities.” Even though the laws stated equal it was still segregated and was unfair towards the blacks seeing how whites were allowed to do many things while blacks were limited. Living Jim Crow had several effects on the people in this era.

The Jim Crow laws from the 1930s were about power. Power of one race over another. These laws really highlight the flaws and weakness of human nature. Although the Jim Crow Laws from the 1930s and the various laws presented today have some of the same impacts, there are still many differences between the two on black rights.