Segregation – The Jim Crow Laws
Segregation – The Jim Crow Laws
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Because of Jim Crow Laws
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Murders were conducted in secret and in public by white men. The blacks were harassed and abused, physically and verbally. These violent acts became a part of their life.
signs were put up to separate facilities saying "whites only" and "coloured" or "Negroes" appearing on parks, toilets, waiting rooms, theatres, and water fountains
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‘Jim Crow’ was a character in an old song who was revived by a white comedian called ‘Daddy’ Rice. Rice used the character to make fun of black people and the way that they spoke. The term ‘Jim Crow’ came to be used as an insult against black people.
In a bid to stop black Americans from being equal, the southern states passed a series of laws known as ‘Jim Crow’ laws which discriminated against blacks and made sure that they were segregated (treated unequally) from whites.
We cannot say
that a law which authorizes
or even requires
the separation
of the two races
in public conveyances
is unreasonable.
United States Supreme Court
May 18, 1896
A black man, Homer Plessey, took a railroad company to court because he had been made to sit in a ‘coloured only’ carriage.
The case went to the Supreme Court who supported the railroad company.
The ruling meant that the ‘Jim Crow’ laws were legal and that it was not illegal to keep blacks and whites separate.
Blacks were excluded form all newspapers and from trading. Negroes gradually lost jobs in government, which they gained after the Civil War.
Whites owned the land, the police, the government, the courtrooms, the law, the armed forces, and the press. The political system denied blacks the right to vote.
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