In 1896, The Supreme Court ruled in Plessey v. Ferguson that segregation was a constitutional right. Plessey V. Ferguson was a case in which an African American train passenger refused to sit in a specific car for African Americans, breaking a Louisiana law (History.com, 2009). This case paved the way for the exploitive Jim Crow laws; this Supreme Court case destroyed any progress African Americans made during the Reconstruction, in the early 1870s. The Jim Crow laws originated from a song entitled jump Jim Crow, by a comedian, in the late 1820s, Thomas Dartmouth Rice. The name Jim Crow became away of mocking black slaves as old African folk tales came to America of trickster animals, one was of a crow named ‘Jim’, this folk tale was popular
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- origins of jump Jim Crow, no date), these words were repeated whilst Rice danced along to them. This performance was the birth of the Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws began in 1877 and took America down a dark path, these laws separated African-American people from white in extreme ways, and an example of a Jim Crow law is "It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment” (YourDictionary, 2016). These laws aimed to prevent black and white people have any contact; Government wouldn’t allow the use of the same toilets, the same restaurants or even the same public parks. The Jim Crow laws officially criminalised being black, now in the legal sense as well as socially. The idea of the 13th Amendment being a ‘loophole’ for slavery was shown through the disobeying of the Jim Crow laws as by law, the perpetrator would be arrested and serve long years of hard labour .In 1905, during the Jim Crow laws, Du Bois W.
- origins of jump Jim Crow, no date), these words were repeated whilst Rice danced along to them. This performance was the birth of the Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws began in 1877 and took America down a dark path, these laws separated African-American people from white in extreme ways, and an example of a Jim Crow law is "It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment” (YourDictionary, 2016). These laws aimed to prevent black and white people have any contact; Government wouldn’t allow the use of the same toilets, the same restaurants or even the same public parks. The Jim Crow laws officially criminalised being black, now in the legal sense as well as socially. The idea of the 13th Amendment being a ‘loophole’ for slavery was shown through the disobeying of the Jim Crow laws as by law, the perpetrator would be arrested and serve long years of hard labour .In 1905, during the Jim Crow laws, Du Bois W.