Many key events took place during the Jim Crow era. In evaluating these events and their effects it is helpful to first understand what Jim Crow laws are. In the 1830s a man named Thomas Dartmouth Rice, a white entertainer performed a character in blackface. When in character Rice performed a popular act with dancing and singing as a slave, named Jim Crow. In 1890 Jim Crow laws were implemented. Under these laws many were victim to segregation between Caucasian and African Americans. This took place at restaurants, churches, schools, parks, and various ways of transportation. In 1890 it was a requirement for railroad companies to offer “separate but equal” travel for African Americans. “Separate but equal” was a false tactic to calm those of
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The claim of these laws were the promotion of equality but it was made clear that segregation of African Americans from Caucasians were the basis. These so called equal accommodations were in fact the opposite of equal. Equality was simply not the case and African American passengers sat in unsafe and uncomfortable seating, while their Caucasian counterparts were seated in safe, clean and comfortable spaces. According to Henry Fireside’s article Separate and Unequal: Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court Decision that Legalized Racism, African American passengers were to sit in cars that had drunk and disorderly Caucasian individuals, and were often used for prison transport. Not all African Americans gave into these discriminations, in fact in 1892 a violation of the “Separate Car Act” took …show more content…
He was found guilty and charged with violating the “Separate Car Act.” According to Stephen Berrey who wrote in his article Resistance Begins at Home: The Black Family and Lessons in Survival and Subversion in Jim Crow Mississippi “The Supreme Court’s 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision cemented the laws dictating separate spaces for blacks and whites” Through this more laws were based from the ruling of the Supreme Court. Plessy was given the option to go to jail for a consecutive time of twenty days or to pay a fine of twenty-five dollars. Plessy chose the
The claim of these laws were the promotion of equality but it was made clear that segregation of African Americans from Caucasians were the basis. These so called equal accommodations were in fact the opposite of equal. Equality was simply not the case and African American passengers sat in unsafe and uncomfortable seating, while their Caucasian counterparts were seated in safe, clean and comfortable spaces. According to Henry Fireside’s article Separate and Unequal: Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court Decision that Legalized Racism, African American passengers were to sit in cars that had drunk and disorderly Caucasian individuals, and were often used for prison transport. Not all African Americans gave into these discriminations, in fact in 1892 a violation of the “Separate Car Act” took …show more content…
He was found guilty and charged with violating the “Separate Car Act.” According to Stephen Berrey who wrote in his article Resistance Begins at Home: The Black Family and Lessons in Survival and Subversion in Jim Crow Mississippi “The Supreme Court’s 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision cemented the laws dictating separate spaces for blacks and whites” Through this more laws were based from the ruling of the Supreme Court. Plessy was given the option to go to jail for a consecutive time of twenty days or to pay a fine of twenty-five dollars. Plessy chose the