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JIM CROW LOW

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  1. segregation JIM CROW LOW

  2. From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows). From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white clientele separated. Here is a sampling of laws from various states: Nurses No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed. AlabamaBuses All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races. Alabama Railroads The conductor of each passenger train is authorized and required to assign each passenger to the car or the division of the car, when it is divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger belongs. Alabama Restaurants It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment. Alabama Examples of jim crow law

  3. Some whites, upset by the abolition of slavery and the defeat of the Confederacy, created new posses and organizations--such as the Ku Klux Klan and the White League--to maintain whites' privileged social status, and to violently punish African Americans who did not fully submit to the old social order. Read more: The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Lynchings and the White Supremacist Movement

  4. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909, and almost immediately became the United States' leading civil rights activist organization. Early victories in Guinn v. United States (1915), an Oklahoma voting rights case, and Buchanan v. Warley (1917), a Kentucky neighborhood segregation case, chipped away at Jim Crow. But it was the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as head of the NAACP legal team, and the decision to focus primarily on school desegregation cases, that would give the NAACP its greatest victories. Read more: History of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Early NAACP Victories

  5. The federal government responded to the Black Codes with the Fourteenth Amendment, which would have banned all forms of prejudicial discrimination if the Supreme Court had actually enforced it. Read more: The Fourteenth Amendment The Fourteenth Amendment

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