Not sure where to write this at because it isn't creative writing it is facts...well if it gets moved i'll understand but for now it is 1876 and The Jim Crow Law was just passed
The start of Jim Crow came when the presidents and goverment began to change. Goverments whom were filled with Ex-Confederates began too dominate over all white southern goverments then with time they all worked to abolish Slavery.
Laws were created that basically gave black men and all free men rights however they were limited to what they could do and they most definity couldn't vote.
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Originally Posted by wikipedia The country, by 1870, passed the 14th and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing civil rights and the right to vote. The southern states came under Republican control--a party comprising the Freedmen, white Southerners ("Scalawags") and migrants from the North ("Carpetbaggers"). The Ku Klux Klan and related groups reacted violently, but they were suppressed by President Ulysses S. Grant using the federal courts and troops. By 1877, the conservatives and Democrats, forming a Redeemer coalition, ousted all the Republican governments. From 1877 down to the 1970s, the Southern Democrats largely controlled every Southern state.
After 1877, the Redeemers reversed many of the civil rights gains that African Americans had made during Reconstruction, passing laws that mandated discrimination by both local governments and by private citizens. Since "Jim Crow law" is a blanket term for any of this type of legislation, the exact date of inception for the laws varies by state. The most important laws came in the 1890s with the adoption of legislation segregating railroad cars in New Orleans as the first genuine Jim Crow law. By 1915, every Southern state had effectively destroyed the gains in civil rights and liberties that blacks had enjoyed due to the Reconstructionist efforts.
It is thought that the term 'Jim Crow laws' originated from the 1828 popular song Jump Jim Crow, a blackface song which made derogatory references to the character of African-American people. As a result of this song, the term 'Jim Crow' became a pejorative or mocking term for African-American people, used in the Deep South.
Between 1890 and 1920, many state governments prevented most blacks from voting by various techniques, such as poll taxes and literacy tests. (These could be waived for whites due to grandfather clauses.) It is estimated that of 181,000 African-American males of voting age in Alabama in 1900, only 3,000 were registered to vote.
Many of the discriminatory Jim Crow laws were enacted to support racial segregation in everyday life. They required black and white people to use separate water fountains, public schools, public bath houses, restaurants, public libraries, buses and rail cars -- although, even without legal segregation, the desire of the white majority to use the frequently inferior facilities set aside for black use was admittedly limited. |
So what did all of this mean for black people? it was simple Blacks were allowed to ride buses but had to sit in the back
We had bathrooms but they were dirt and had signs whites and blacks only
White kids had seperate schools from blacks
really crazy shit printed into lay such as in North Carolina
* Textbooks. Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them.
* Libraries. The state librarian is directed to fit up and maintain a separate place for the use of the colored people who may come to the library for the purpose of reading books or periodicals.
South Carolina
* Lunch Counters
No persons, firms, or corporations, who or which furnish meals to passengers at station restaurants or station eating houses, in times limited by common carriers of said passengers, shall furnish said meals to white and colored passengers in the same room, or at the same table, or at the same counter.
* Child Custody
It shall be unlawful for any parent, relative, or other white person in this State, having the control or custody of any white child, by right of guardianship, natural or acquired, or otherwise, to dispose of, give or surrender such white child permanently into the custody, control, maintenance, or support, of a negro.
And it was pretty much like this in every south state some places were worst...
This brung on movements like Martin Luther Kings...and Well that is another Read...stay black
It is 1876 And We Are Still Segragated Yet Equal
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04-02-2007, 03:38 PM
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