The Violation Of Constitutional Rights

During the civil rights movement there was a set of laws called the Jim Crows. These were a set of laws which enforced segregation between the white and the blacks. The term Jim Crow was a derogatory term used to describe the African-American people. The laws affected both whites and blacks but the laws affected the blacks more negatively than the whites, the blacks were mainly affected in very unpleasant ways. In the South of America the Jim Crow laws were more strongly enforced than in the Northern part of America. African-Americans travelled North to gain a better life but with travelling bought danger and risk. In the constitution equal rights were stated, but they were not followed white people thought that the African-American race was placed on the Earth to work and that they did not deserve any respect. They thought that the black people were thought as workers, animals and slaves even after slavery was abolished.

The Jim Crow Laws were created to separate blacks and whites in public areas and degraded African Americans by providing unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government. These laws contravened with the 14th amendment according to Document A, “Article 14 Section 1: No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”. The Jim Crow Laws set a “Separate but Equal” system that the government failed to comply to since the African Americans were issued with accommodations that were not the same as whites. The Jim Crow Laws also breached the 15th amendment by prohibiting African Americans to vote in almost all Southern states. As stated in Document A, the 15th amendment is “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude--”. The ballots of many African Americans were either not considered valid or thrown away for those who did

Education was and still is a very important aspect in life, but Jim Crow laws made receiving an equal education an impossible task. “Education: The schools for white children and the schools for Negro children shall be conducted separately” Florida (“Jim Crow Laws”). Although both races did receive an education, they were not equal. Schools for white

Some people may wonder what are the Jim Crow Laws. The Jim Crow Laws are laws that segregated everything. “ Separate but equal was a term used during the time. Everything that was shareable was segregated. Things that were separated was schools , pools , bathrooms , waterfountains , and restaurants. They were labeled as colored and white. The name Jim Crow came from a character in a popular minstrel song. The Jim Crow law became effective after the supreme court case Plessy v. Ferguson which was considered constitutional encouraged by the blacks and whites. There is a book out called “ The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. “ By looking at the title you can tell that it is racial related. African Americans have the largest incarceration rate in the United States. In

The Jim Crow Era was an era that had anti-Black laws and an all-white justice system (Lecture 11/06/13). Some of the laws included Black men not being allowed to shake a white man’s hand, could not offer to light a women’s cigarette, Black couples were not allowed to show public displays of affection (PDA), and Black people could not eat with white people (Lecture 11/06/13). There was several other little laws that were anti-Black. Racism was huge during the Jim Crow Era, for example, the use of bad language towards Blacks were in books and newspapers (11/06/13). Institutional racism also existed with voting and lynching. Only white democrats could vote in primaries and over a half of white police officers participated in lynching (Lecture 11/06/13). The lynching of Black people went on for a long time, from 1882 through 1968 (11/06/13). One historical event that was violent towards Blacks was the Scottsboro Boys in 1931. There was nine unemployed Black men that were

In the former Confederacy and neighboring states, local governments constructed a legal system aimed at re-establishing a society based on white supremacy. African American men were largely barred from voting. Legislation known as Jim Crow laws separated people of color from whites in schools, housing, jobs, and public gathering

Jim Crow laws were the act that legalized segregation between blacks and whites back in the late 1800’s. These laws were mainly enforced in the southern states. They were created to separate blacks and whites from having even the slightest bit of contact. Some JIm Crow laws were no interracial marriage, blacks and whites had to go to separate schools, and use different tools, and also go to different hospitals. Everything that went one between the blacks and the whites had to be different. This essay will go over what some of the specific Jim Crow laws were, and how it affected the people in the united states.

Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws, it was a way of life. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second-class citizens. Some of the laws excluded blacks from public transport and facilities, juries, jobs, and neighborhoods, voting, holding public office, and school. Although the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution had granted blacks the same legal protections as whites. After 1877, and the election of Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, southern and border states began restricting the liberties of blacks.

From 1916 to 1970 there was an event-taking place across the country. This event called the great migration brought millions of African Americans north running from the segregation and racism in the south. Many laws such as the Jim Crowe laws gave African American a huge struggle to find peace in the south even in the early 20th century. Even though slavery was outlawed in all of the United States these laws gave black people un-equal rights and made it hard for

Jim Crow Laws were laws that were used to mandate racial segregation. The segregation consisted of places such as schools, restaurants, bathrooms, housing, public places and also the United States Military. This has impacted African Americans both mentally and physically. In the 1960’s, the Civil Rights Movement was aimed to put an end to the Jim Crow Laws, which were later repealed. Racial Profiling continued to survive.

Jim Crow Laws The Jim Crow Laws greatly affected the way African Americans lived during the 1930s. Jim Crow Laws were a series of rules that limited African Americans rights. During this period of time segregation, and violence towards the African Americans were a big part in the Jim Crow Laws. “ A black male could not offer his hand (to shake hands) with a white male because it’s implied being socially equal” (Pilgrim pg 1).

The Jim Crow Laws made life more difficult for African Americans.  In Florida, African Americans could not marry a white person.  If you were an African American and and wanted to marry a white person you could not and that would make you feel sad and heartbroken because you can’t marry the person you love. African Americans could not sit with a white person on buses and they had to go to a separate ticket booth to buy their ticket in Alabama. The white people got to sit in the front of the bus and the black people had to sit in the back of the bus.  Black people did not have the ability to sit where they wanted to sit.  Also in Alabama, employers had to provide separate toilets for their black and white employees.  African Americans in Alabama had to have separate dining in restaurants.  If a restaurant wanted to have both white and black customers,

Jim Crow laws were laws that were in place from 1866 up until the 1960’s. These laws were meant to enforce the principle, “separate but equal” which was meant to bring equality to the races while minimizing the interactions between them. These laws created separate but unequal environments for the races. They supported the idea that the white race was superior to others and they created a constant state of fear in the lives of countless African Americans. (Pilgrim, Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memrobilia 2000)

During the 1880’s, American race relations reached their rock-bottom as whites sought ways to dominate the blacks on every front in the country. This spanned from school segregation to disenfranchisement. Such domination saw the rise of the Jim Crow system, a system that was adopted from a song-and-dance routine that aped an old, crippled slave named James Crow (Kousser 479). By 1838, the term Jim Crow became associated with the black community and by the late nineteenth century, whites in the South used the term to refer to a system of racial discrimination and segregation, meant to subjugate African Americans. Therefore, the Jim Crow Laws were ordinances and statutes that were set up between 1874 and 1975 to segregate black races from the whites.

Before Jim Crow laws, African Americans had legal and political rights solely because of support from the federal government. Once this support was pulled, though, which happened in about 1877, these few rights were stripped from them. This was, in part, due to Jim Crow laws. Essentially, Jim Crow laws were laws that enforced segregation. They made it increasingly hard for African Americans to vote, taking away the majority of their political voice. Soon, it was legal for state governments to discriminate against black people, instead of just individuals and private organizations. There was also a significant increase in racial violence at the time that these laws were passed, and an increase in lynching, specifically in the South.