Jim Crow Laws: Separate But Equal

And in the end...

Jim Crow Laws: "Separate but Equal"

-Eventually segregation and racism faded out..but many people around the U.S. have their own opinions of it still to this very day.

-It played a major roll in the history of the U.S. and it will continue to live as a legacy for our future.

The rise and fall of segregation.

Why did it exist? Why was there segregation between races?

-White people felt threatened around 1890 after the Civil War and slavery..they felt as if it was their mission to keep races separated and treat them as second class.

- They then claimed "Separate but Equal" facilities for each race and claimed it was constitutional and just. However, that was a false statement in my opinion and many others.

-In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark court case, better known as Plessy v. Ferguson, that "Separate but Equal" rule, was indeed constitutional.

Well..did Jim Crow laws ever end?..How?

Interesting Fact...

-In 1830 or so white minstrel performers would blackened their faces with charcoal paste or burnt cork and danced to the Jim Crow tune.

-They were later known as making fun of colored people and describing them as lame or inferior to our country.

-Not until later was it put to a stop..there was a Supreme Court case, better known as Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas that made segregation illegal in the year of 1954. The South as well as the North was the forced to integrate all public institutions.

-Keep in mind that segregation was considered constitutional for 58 years..and still habituated even longer than that.

-Thurgood Marshall played a big role in this as a civil rights leader and a member of of NAACP Counsel. He argued that segregation went against an entire race and denied it of equal protection guaranteed by the 14th amendment.

-Chief Justice Earl Warren was a skilled negotiator and led a unanimous decision in which the Court ruled that "separate but equal" had no place in America and separate was deemed inherently unequal.

-Colored people still continued to struggle for quite some time though after the laws were overthrown.

Explain it to me..

What exactly were the Jim crow Laws?

What events exactly led to the rise of Jim Crow Laws and Separate but equal?

- They were laws that separated white people from colored people. They treated the colored as if they were second class.

- The laws made segregation legalized.

-They basically separated colored people and white people majorly. giving them two separate ways of living.

What were some of the Jim Crow laws..examples?

-There were many Jim Crow laws..way too many to count but here are a few I will explain..

-Marriage

-Hospitalization

-Nursing

-Barbering

-Toilets

-Burial

-Prison