What are the jim Crow laws, and what made then exist?
wikipedia - Jim Crow or Jim Crow Laws. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure segregation in all public facilities, with a "separate but equal" status for black Americans and members of other non-white racial groups. The origin of the phrase "Jim Crow" has often been attributed to "Jump Jim Crow", a song-and-dance caricature of African Americans, which first surfaced in 1832.[2] Its origins may, however, precede this production.[2] The term had become an adjective by 1838, and the phrase Jim Crow Law first appeared in the Dictionary of American English in 1904.[2] Even before its appearance in the dictionary, at least as early as the 1890s, the phrase "Jim Crow Law" had achieved common usage.[2] The name "Jim Crow" might have come from actor Thomas D. Rice who portrayed a slave named Jim Crow while in blackface during the mid-1800s. Black Slaves, Civil War, Black Freedmen, Southern States given US okay for their power back slowly, Blacks allowed to vote but Southern states had major issues which led to the segregation laws in the early 20th Century, All Jim Crow Laws repealed in 1965 with the renounciation of the Segregation issues.
What are the jim crow laws?
Jim Crow laws were created in the American South after the Civil War. They manipulated the spirit of the Emancipation Proclamation and the letter of the federal law to ensure that White dominance of African Americans would continue even after it was illegal to own slaves. Jim Crow laws created forced segregation in the public school system, kept African Americans from riding in the same section of public buses as Caucasians, kept many African Americans from moving out of segregated neighborhoods, and often made it difficult for African Americans to vote. Jim Crow laws were declared illegal by the US Supreme Court when they voted against the school system in Brown v. Board of Education, and later laws like the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. Although there really weren't Jim Crow laws in Northern or Western states like there was in the South, institutional racism existed outside the South. It still does.
Why did the Jim Crow Laws pass?
The term Jim Crow is believed to have originated around 1830 when a white, minstrel show performer, Thomas "Daddy" Rice, blackened his face with charcoal paste or burnt cork and danced a ridiculous jig while singing the lyrics to the song, "Jump Jim Crow." Rice incorporated the skit into his minstrel act, and by the 1850s the "Jim Crow" character had become a standard part of the minstrel show scene in America. On the eve of the Civil War, the Jim Crow idea was one of many stereotypical images of black inferiority in the popular culture of the day. The word Jim Crow became a racial slur synonymous with black, colored, or ***** in the vocabulary of many whites; and by the end of the century acts of racial discrimination toward blacks were often referred to as Jim Crow laws and practices. Although "Jim Crow Cars" on some northern railroad lines--meaning segregated cars--pre-dated the Civil War, in general the Jim Crow era in American history dates from the late 1890s, when southern states began systematically to codify (or strengthen) in law and state constitutional provisions the subordinate position of African Americans in society. Most of these legal steps were aimed at separating the races in public spaces (public schools, parks, accommodations, and transportation) and preventing adult black males from exercising the right to vote. The so-called Jim Crow segregation laws gained significant impetus from U. S. Supreme Court rulings in the last two decades of the nineteenth century.
Why was the Jim Crow Laws important?
For exactly the same reasons that affirmative action programs exist today. They are intended to: 1) Help out one group of favored people at the expense of another less important (to the government) group. 2) Segregate (politically isolate) one group from the other to make both groups easier to govern. That way one group can be played off the other. Also, the Jim Crow laws are mainly associated with the South, but it is a mistake to assume that they only existed there, or that Black people were the only ones subjected to them. Glendale, CA had a law that was finally over turned in the 1960s that only allowed Black people to be in town during certain hours in the middle of the day. California also outlawed the marriage between Asians and Whites until after WW2.
What does 'Jim Crow' mean (as in Jim Crow laws)?
Who Was Jim Crow? The name Jim Crow is often used to describe the segregation laws, rules, and customs which arose after Reconstruction ended in 1877 and continued until the mid-1960s. How did the name become associated with these "Black Codes" which took away many of the rights which had been granted to Blacks through the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments? ______________________________________... "Come listen all you galls and boys, I'm going to sing a little song, My name is Jim Crow. Weel about and turn about and do jis so, Eb'ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow." These words are from the song, "Jim Crow," as it appeared in sheet music written by Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice. Rice, a struggling "actor" (he did short solo skits between play scenes) at the Park Theater in New York, happened upon a Black person singing the above song -- some accounts say it was an old Black slave who walked with difficulty, others say it was a ragged Black stable boy. Whether modeled on an old man or a young boy we will never know, however, it is clear that in 1828 Rice appeared on stage as "Jim Crow" -- an exaggerated, highly stereotypical Black character. Rice, a White man, was one of the first performers to wear blackface makeup -- his skin was darkened with burnt cork. His Jim Crow song-and-dance routine was an astounding success that took him from Louisville to Cincinnati to Pittsburg to Philadelphia and finally to New York in 1832. He then performed to great acclaim in London and Dublin. By then "Jim Crow" was a stock character in minstrel shows, along with counterparts Jim Dandy and Zip Coon. Rice's subsequent blackface characters were Sambos, Coons, and Dandies. White audiences were receptive to the portrayals of Blacks as singing, dancing, grinning fools. By 1838, the term "Jim Crow" was being used as a collective racial epithet for Blacks, not as offensive as ******, but as offensive as coon or darkie. Obviously, the popularity of minstrel shows aided the spread of Jim Crow as a racial slur. This use of the term did not last past a half century. By the end of the 19th Century, the words Jim Crow were less likely to be used to derisively describe Blacks; instead, the phrase Jim Crow was being used to describe laws and customs which oppressed Blacks. © Dr. David Pilgrim, Professor of Sociology Ferris State University Sept., 2000
What are the Jim Crow Laws? 10 points for best answer?
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