Essay On Jim Crow Segregation

First, let us define what Jim Crow segregation is a set of state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. These laws were implemented after the civil war and followed through most of the civil rights movement. These laws ensured that people of colour were segregated from the white man in all public space. This public space included areas such as bathrooms, entrances to movies, water fountains, transportation, and many other facilities. Jim Crow segregation can be labelled as southern radicalism which blacks suffered inequality and terror.

Jim Crow segregation claim’s ‘separate but equal’ but never came close to race equality. Conditions of the Jim Crow south for people of colour were not pleasant by any means. The laws were set in place to segregate people of colour in public space. Almost, if not all of the time this space was not equal. Blacks were separated in manors that were degrading, such as their inability to enter through front entrances of movie theatres. Black had to enter through the back of the building or had to go to a black theatre. The buildings that were designated solely for people of colour were typically run-down, had no maintenance, or overly-crowed. The separation as explained in the book ‘Strange Career of Jim Crow’ by Woodward went as far as accommodating transportation to have different seating arrangement, waiting …show more content…
Voting became a violent threat to blacks that were capable to do so. Blacks were often beaten, killed, or harmed in some way for attempting to vote. This type of violence was used to intimidate other blacks away from voting. Woodward mention in his book in 1919 first year after the war more than seventy blacks were lynched. Many organizations were developed over this era that increased acts of race violence in order to increase the segregation