Jim Crow laws

The term Jim Crow ( " Jim Crow " ) is available in the USA for the history of racial discrimination. Jim Crow is the stereotype of a dancing, singing, satisfied with himself and the world, but below average intelligence blacks, a popular topic, especially in the minstrel shows in America in the late 19th century. Was marked in the figure of the dancing Jim Crow by comedian Thomas D. Rice.

Jim Crow Laws

When Jim Crow Laws ( Jim Crow laws ) are referred to in the U.S. have laws prescribing 1876-1964 a segregation (especially between African Americans and whites). The time in which created these laws is accordingly called Jim Crow Jim Crow Period or Era (Engl. Jim Crow period or era ).

In the second half of the 19th century represented the end of slavery after the Civil War and the emancipation efforts of the widespread racial discrimination as well as the traditional, especially in the Southern racial segregation in question. From 1876 subsequently adopted several states (especially southern states and neighboring countries ) laws which cemented racial segregation in everyday life legally. The Supreme Court ( Supreme Court ) upheld the law in 1896, de facto, in its decision Plessy v. Ferguson and ruled that racial segregation - in this case involved separate railway compartments - was admissible if the whites and blacks are entitled to facilities were of equal value. This principle was but equal ( separate but equal ) known as separate.

Rosa Parks was a black American civil rights activist, who was arrested on December 1, 1955 in the city of Montgomery ( in the U.S. state of Alabama), because she refused to vacate her seat on the bus for a white passenger. Your civil disobedience against this racially discriminatory legal institution Montgomery Bus Boycott sparked the which has since been next to the protests in the case of Emmett Till as the beginning of the black civil rights movement.

The laws on racial segregation and discrimination as well as their implementation were gradually abolished or canceled in the wake of the American Civil Rights Movement (Civil rights movement ) in the 1950s and 1960s. The Supreme Court ruled in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education process that equality is impossible with racial segregation in practice and declared racial segregation in publicly funded schools inadmissible. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ( Civil Rights Act of 1964) abolished all remaining Jim Crow laws.