A Documentary History Of De Jure Segregation

notorious for its De Facto segregation, which they were able to turn into De Jure segregation the reason for this is because the law and police enforced segregation. After the reconstruction period in the late 1870’s African Americans were given multiple amendments to provide them rights as American citizens. Good majority of southern Caucasians were not very ecstatic about this action, this then later on caused them to perform multiple Jim Crows law to the full extent. The definition of this term according to Jim Crow America A Documentary History “Jim Crow was not a single federal law, but a series of state, local, and county statutes, as well as unwritten codes of conduct, that evolved into a restrictive, punitive system of widespread segregation, created in the North and later concentrated in the American South.” …show more content…
With this law the South was able to segregate schools, buses, restaurants and more, fundamentally everything was segregated. However the issues with this action are that the places designated for African Americans has very bad conditions. This made residential living hard for African-Americans in the rural south; it was extremely difficult for them to find good living conditions because white people did not want African American tenants. The Southern states mostly used their own Jim Crow laws for occupational options for them. Also because in the South the main profit-making job was farming, blacks had to buy farms to live on and this deed was difficult because a lot of farm owners did not want black tenants. Since it was extremely difficult for African Americans to find housing in the South there was not a lot of information on their housing