Jim Crow laws were a system of state and local statutes enacted primarily in the Southern United States after the Civil War, which enforced racial segregation and marginalized African Americans until they were dismantled by the Civil Rights Movement and federal legislation in the 1960s.
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today in the daily dose jim crow laws
and the segregated south
named after a black minstrel show character
character
jim crow laws were a collection of
mostly southern
state and local statutes that legalized
racial segregation which were
implemented shortly after the end of the
civil war
and lasted until the civil rights
protests and federal legislation of the 1960s
1960s
the laws were intended to marginalize
african americans
by suppressing their right to vote
limiting their access to good-paying jobs
jobs
while excluding access to higher education
education
those who attempted to shirk the laws
often faced
arrest fines jail time violence and even
death in 1896
the first legal attempt to repeal jim
crow laws was upheld in the case of
plessy versus ferguson
in which the u.s supreme court laid out
its separate but
equal doctrine affirming racial
segregation in public facilities
including the coaches of interstate
trains and buses
facilities for african americans were
routinely inferior and
underfunded compared to facilities
maintained exclusively for whites
while the laws as a whole institutionalized
institutionalized
economic educational and social disadvantages
disadvantages
for african americans living in the
south segregation was also adhered to in
the u.s
military while in 1913
southern democratic president woodrow wilson
wilson
initiated national segregation policies in
in
federal workplaces southern statutes
continued to impose
poll taxes on black americans attempting to
to
suppress them from voting in local state
and national
elections in 1954
segregation of state-funded public
schools was declared
unconstitutional by the u.s supreme court
court
under chief justice earl warren in the
landmark case
brown versus board of education yet most
southern states dragged their feet for
years before
integration was finally achieved against
great backlash from white southerners
in 1964 the warren court continued to
rule against jim crow laws
in other cases such as heart of atlanta
motel inc versus united states
the last vestiges of jim crow laws came
to an end
when they were overruled by the civil
rights act of 1964
followed by the voting rights act of 1965
1965
bringing to an end white america's long
and stained history
of racial suppression against black americans
americans
and there you have it jim crow laws in
the segregated south
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