Jim Crow

In this blog we are going to be looking at the Jim Crow Laws from back in the 1900s.

As we all know there are some instances here and there even today that people still try to enforce these laws but that always ends in some big law suit and blah blah blah someone wins someone looses. Here we are going to look at some straight facts. We all know that back then blacks were inferior to whites. Jim Crow laws were basically a system of serious anti-black laws for instance children could not play together, they had separate schools, barber shops, there was no inter-race kids buses, even doctors waiting room were separated doctors waiting rooms. When it came to child custody the white parent would be the one that was fit to raise the child. Blacks and whites couldn't even drink together they had their own bars. They had these neighborhoods called sundown towns which was after sundown all people of color had to leave the neighborhood so in easier words it was an all whites area. There was an instance where Carol Jenkins, a 21 year old African-American was murdered in a sundown town.

Movies today have been made about these laws i.e. The Help.

There was a cool term that was introduced to me it is Gerrymandering which means "manipulating the boundaries OF AN ELECTORAL CONSTITUENCY so as to favor one party or class over another"

Why were Jim Crow Laws put into effect? because whites felt threatened after slavery was abolished and didn't want the blacks rising up and taking over. Black codes majorly restricted african americans freedom. Whites were told to never marry blacks. In some states blacks could not speak or even make eye contact with whites plus if blacks wanted to vote they had to learn to read and write themselves.