The Legacy Of The Jim Crow Laws

The Jim Crow laws were everything but fair, and equal. Jim Crow is the name they used in the laws on separating the African Americans from the Caucasian men and women. These laws deprived African Americans from their civil rights because of the many things they were not allowed to experience due to these laws. Jim Crow laws oppressed the educational rights, voting rights, and social freedoms of American citizens, this essay will be discussing the oppression of these rights and freedoms.

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 dominated every aspect of African American life from its inception after Reconstruction up to the civil rights era and its affects can still be felt today. During this era of Jim Crow African Americans had different ways of coping with these oppressive laws. These ways of coping included these three methods, migration, agitation and accommodation. Out of these three methods the most effective at defying Jim Crow laws and fighting segregation was agitation.

Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment which made segregation illegal. Eventually, the Supreme Court came to the conclusion that separate public facilities were “inherently unequal” (McBride 1). Brown vs. Board challenged and signaled the end of Jim Crow and “separate but equal” clause.

Thomas Rico was a famous actor in the 1860’s, who played the character named Jim Crow, in theaters. Around the time that Jim Crow became popular, slave were being free from plantations and new laws were being made in the south. These laws were created to limit the freedom of newly freed African-Americans. White people in the south grew fond of both Jim Crow and the new laws that they started calling these laws “Jim Crow Laws”. Though the African-Americans were freed and had rights, whites would use laws so they could have power over African-Americans,

In a progressive society like the United States, looking to the past is common, to learn from our mistakes but some undeniable issues of the past repeat and are omitted from our society because of their unpleasant nature, a great example of this is the Jim-Crow Era. In this paper, I will be discussing the main events of the Jim-Crow era, its initiation, the new style of slavery in the south, and the way it re-shaped the lives of African Americans all across the country, its re-enforcement in the beginning of the twentieth century, its major supporters, like the Ku Klux Klan. Confederate state leaders, and its major oppositions like the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, and the idea of the United States setting a global example of

Can you imagine being told where and what to do based on the color of your skin? Many people born between 1800s and 1900s have experienced this. Whites and Blacks were considered completely different species back in those days. People thought that the races being separated was okay, as long as everything each race had was equal. This was never the situation though because blacks always had less than what the white people did. A group of laws that enforced this behavior were known as the Jim Crow Laws.

What if you woke up one day and everything became separate? School, sports, and even parks; would you be able to cope with Jim Crow laws? Though many whites opposed the idea of integration and supported Jim Crow laws, many citizens of color fought for the right to use the same restroom, water fountain, go to the same schools, and even to intermarry. Jim Crow laws were instituted to separate those of color and whites, because of this, many blacks were discriminated against in social areas and job and school opportunities.

“...Jim Crow”, states Michelle Alexander, “appears to die but is then reborn in new form, tailored to the needs and constraints of the time” (page 16). Indeed, as Alexander argues throughout her book, the new Jim Crow of our modern time is ever-present and thriving in the country that is claimed to cater “for all”. This time, mass incarceration is the answer to the country’s troubles. Alexander’s thesis explains that racism is still alive in America through the new Jim Crow despite the progression of the black and brown man. The book focuses on how black men are still subject to the same racism that plagued their ancestors years ago. They are being trapped in a cycle formed by the criminal system which

African American adults emerged in many ways following the chaos of the civil war. The African Americans needed to build a community following this occurrence. They were able to do so using the many job experiences and skills that they had developed and later became fine-tuned as time went on. These job experiences included millwrights to build mills, carpenters to build homes, blacksmiths to make the tools and everything needed for building, and stone masons for stone structures and buildings. Being skilled in these areas was very important to the community building process, allowing them to build their schools, churches, mason halls, and orphanages. This allowed them to even start a bereavement fund and building plots for those who have passed. The African Americans also would have been able to support their family using these skills and experiences to earn the money. And take the time and ingenuity to build their community’s as they stuck together as one. African Americans needed

According to The New Jim Crow (Alexander, 2010), today 's society in the United States

The Jim Crow Laws have been reincarnated into a new form according to Michelle Alexander. The Jim Crow Laws were established in the 1800s. The Jim Crow Laws enforced racial discrimination and segregation. They were in place until 1965. However, according Michelle Alexander the Jim Crow laws have taken new forms. Alexander talks about the war on drugs, legalized discrimination, mass incarnation and more.

The Whites were always superior over the blacks during this period. No matter what Jim Crow did, he can never overdo unless being told to or he will be scold or blame being an ego. He can never trespass the boundaries in social hierarchy of the society which the blacks were placed at the bottom of the hierarchy and the whites were at the top. Even if the Whites were wrong, blacks don’t have the right to correct the Whites or else their job will be threatened or even putting their life on risk. The way Jim Crow address his boss got him into trouble as well. Even if the blacks have older than whites, still the blacks will be addressed as boy where the whites will be addressed as Sir. Jim Crow accidentally addresses his boss by his first name

Jim Crow is a character that was created by a white man in 1836, who had intentions of displaying derisive and cruel behavior of African-Americans on stage in order to entertain Caucasians. Jim Crow was the law of both Southern and Northern United States for over a half a century. During the 1830’s, Jim Crow was considered one of the most popular forms of mass entertainment Jim Crow had entered the American vocabulary, and many whites all of which came away from minstrel shows with distorted images of black life, characteristics, which led to the aspiration of Jim Crow (Litwack, Preface of Trouble In Mind 1998, xiv). This paper will illuminate one’s knowledge on the etiquettes, definition, history, and the ideology of how Jim Crow came about.

I’m tired of all this foolishness. Everywhere I glance there are signs that read Whites and Colored. Jim Crow Laws are everywhere and they’re a number of laws requiring racial segregation. Jim Crow Laws created segregation and discrimination against African Americans. People judge us by what they see, the color of our skin instead of us as an individual. Everyone’s human and no one should feel any lesser than anybody, we all have feeling and sometimes I even feel terrible because of the way I get treated. Everyone should be equal no matter the shade of color because that doesn’t mean you can’t have the same rights as others. People see African Americans as less just because of the simple fact we’re black. Therefore, I’m going to take all my pride and stand up for what I believe.