Jim Crow laws

There are dozens of examples of Jim Crow laws - and many of them sound ridiculous. Laws were passed to create separate schools, churches, parks, trains, buses, toilets and so on. Even drinking fountains were segregated. Marriages were banned between colours. Blacks even had a Jim Crow Bible to swear by in Court! One of the most bizarre Jim Crow laws was passed in Louisiana, saying that 'there will be a separate building, on separate ground for the admission, care,…

Jim Crow wasn’t an actual person, but understanding of who he was will help you make sense of the laws he created. During the antebellum period, minstrel shows were extremely popular. White actors in blackface would perform as black people for entertainment. Thomas Rice was a famous minstrel performer; among his most popular acts was titled “Jump Jim Crow”. In the mid-1830s, Jim Crow became synonymous with black people broadly, but still in that caricatured form. With this in mind, it may be…

Jim Crow Laws began in the 1880s a little after Reconstruction, and ended in the1960s. Southern state legislatures passed laws requiring the separation of whites from African Americans in public transportation and school. The laws were also put in place to restrict African Americans from having any part in what goes on in the government. This meant that when it came time to vote for anything only white men could vote. Jim Crow Laws, were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the…

After slavery was abolished, black people were still treated unequally, and later put this inequality into legal action. In the early 1900s, many states in the south began to implement “separate but equal” laws, better known as Jim Crow Laws. Many people have suffered at the hands of the Jim Crow Laws, including both my mother and grandmother, who were turned away from…

Jim Crow Laws were government-enforced racial segregation laws that existed with the purpose of dehumanizing, alienating and discriminating black people and other people of color. Jim Crow Laws were formed from 1876 to 1965, and existed on the premise of a “separate but equal” status for black people and white people, although they did not carry this idea out, and were violently racist. The name “Jim Crow” comes from a blackface minstrel show made in 1830, and became a derogatory term for…

read about what the Jim Crow Laws were and think about the effect they have had on society. From being in GEC323, reading about the Jim Crow Laws and read the book, The New Jim Crow Law is a book by Michelle Alexander, I have a whole new insight of how “crazy” and cruel this world, and the people in it, can be. The New Jim Crow Law is a book by Michelle Alexander in which is talks about the “new” Jim Crow Laws that are supposed to be a good idea of the nature of the Jim Crow from 1890 to 1965.…

If there was no such thing as the Jim Crow laws, Tom Robinson would never have been convicted of rape. Some people may say that the laws in the 1930’s would not have affected the plot. These people would be very wrong. Without the Jim Crow laws, whites would have been much more accepting of African Americans. They would not have blindly convicted Tom Robinson without some investigation. The Jim Crow laws had the largest effect on the trial because they started segregation, made whites feel…

The Jim Crow Laws and How They Were Overturned Not long after the American Civil war (1861-1865), the Jim Crow Laws were passed. The Jim Crow Laws refer to any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States between the end of the Reconstruction period (1877) and the beginning of the Civil Rights movement (1950s). These laws were generally created for whites to avoid all contact possible with blacks by separating them in all public facilities, but also denied blacks…

“Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States”.(“Jim Crow Laws.” Wikipedia, 15 Feb. 2018.) Jim Crow laws started at the end of the Reconstruction period and ended in 1965. Jim Crow laws included black males could not shake a while males hand, blacks not being able to share bathrooms with whites, blacks had to give up their seats to whites and sit in the back of the vehicle, etc. (“What was Jim Crow.” Ferris.edu, Sept. 2012.) With Jim Crow…

The Jim Crow laws are very interesting laws. The fact that they separated hospitals gives me many thoughts. The saying “separate but equal” and how it really was gives me many thoughts. They also separated transportation, like buses and trains. The Jim Crow laws give me many thoughts and feelings on on how the world was before. I think that separating hospitals is just going way too far.If someone sick needs medical attention they should be able to go to any hospitals available near them not…