Jim Crow a song and dance created by a white man named Thomas Dartmouth Rice, The dance is Rice portrayed as a slave doing everything that he has been told a form of humiliation to blacks, but entertainment to whites. Mr. Rice became very famous for this not only in America but Europe for his infamous stand up portraying a slave by putting make-up on his face to look like an African American., around the end of the 19th century this became a law(Roberts).
The Jim Crow law came in affect during what Americans call the “Reconstruction” time. Slavery had finally been outlawed and it was very clear that the African-Americans were treated far from fair. The Democratic Party legislated the Jim Crow laws (Tapscott). The Democratic Party is also the source of literacy test, which are test that made it harder for blacks to vote (Tapscott). They were outrages test that weren't made to pass, as the whites knew but it was very clear the goal was to give the blacks the least amount of power they can get even though they were so called “free”.
Jim Crow laws were against everything our constitution stood for. America’s government of that time was making laws that could not even give blacks the chance to survive in the society. As we slowly progressed there was a large case that began the banning of these laws the Plessy vs. Ferguson case where a black man named Plessy tried to sit in a all white train car and would not give up his seat, Plessy loss this case but the whole trial was a mockery, due to his peacefulness and corporation. The judge made it clear that he found him in no wrong but has treated the law as so. It is very clear the Jim crow laws were not fair at all(Dukes) .
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Tapscott, TJ S. "Jim Crow Laws - Separate Is Not Equal." Jim Crow Laws - Separate Is Not Equal. Uthern California Library for Social Studies and Research, 4 Sept. 2001. Web. 11 Feb. 2014.
ROb Roberts, Peter B. "Rise and Fall of Jim Crow." PBS. PBS, 4 Aug. 2001. Web. 12 Feb. 2014.
Dukes, Jamall D. "PLESSY v. FERGUSON." Plessy v. Ferguson. Chicago-Kent College of Law, 27 Oct. 2007. Web. 12 Feb. 2014.
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