African Americans - state legislatures, governments: Jim Crow
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- Created on: 06-05-17 12:16
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- The Role of State legislatures and governments: 'Jim Crow'
- Jim Crow Laws
- Southern States passed series of discriminatory measures against African Americans
- Gradually segregation became legalised
- Segregation
- Tennessee segregated rail travel in 1881 and soon spread through South
- After 1899, laws segregating waiting rooms
- First decade of 20th C, laws segregating streetcars
- Not only affected transport
- Sports
- Hospitals
- Orphanages
- Prisons
- Funeral homes
- Cemetries
- Education
- Attempts to designate separate residential areas, and while these did not become law because of objections by SC, in practice it was possible to achieve areas of predominantly white and predominantly AA residence through intimidation and refusal to rent or sell
- Not confined to South - cities of North also had distinct segregated areas.
- Politically, S was able to remove political reps by intimidation and then by measures against voting.
- Jim Crow Laws
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