Essay On The Jim Crow Era

It was the start of 80s in 17th century, civil right act was passed in 1875. At this time, whites of America felt a need to control over the blacks living in the cities. That is how the Jim Crow laws were introduced. These laws segregated the blacks from the whites. U.S Supreme Court declared the Civil Right Act of 1975 unconstitutional. These new laws were introduced in Southern and border states. Jim crow were more than laws, it was a way of life where a race of people was superior to other just on the bases of color. The name Jim Crow is believed to be derived from a minstrel song of 17th century. Important argument here, is that whites declared blacks separated from them and called it equality. So, weather it is separated or any term, the laws were made for inequality.
Before starting the discussion about responses to Jim Crow era by different Afro American social thinker and artists, it is important to understand why this era is considered horrible and why there was a need to respond these laws on soft grounds. Playing of black and white people together was prohibited, marriages between white and black people were restricted, Separate schools for the children of black people, public transport had separate seats for black and white people, restrictive …show more content…
They had to resist this separation, the laws that weren’t inequality in the eyes of white people was definitely inequality for black people on reality grounds. African American people started resisting these laws by different means. Some started struggle in rural areas by violent means, some people started struggling against the separated transport system there are many famous examples of this struggle, some black people fought these laws politically and they were rethinking about the civil rights movement. In last, there were the people with the power of pen and art brushes. Like always, artists and social thinkers resisted Jim Crow laws in their own