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Ask students to compare and contrast several primary sources that express or illustrate opposition to Jim Crow segregation. What were some of the different justifications given for abolishing Jim Crow? What different methods – or approaches – of opposition can you identify?
Those Jim Crow laws imposed segregation and denied African Americans equality and political rights. The Supreme Court upheld these Jim Crow laws in the 1896 landmark case Plessy v. Ferguson, which maintained the constitutionality of the “separate but equal” doctrine.
What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with the language we use to justify it. In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don’t.
The Jim Crow Era legalized, normalized or reintroduced the vices experienced by African Americans during enslavement and the Reconstruction Era such as political disenfranchisement, violence and intimidation, economic suppression and social segregation.
Prawa Jima Crowa (ang. Jim Crow laws) – regulacje wprowadzane na stopniu lokalnym (hrabstw – counties) lub stanowym, głównie w południowych stanach Ameryki po wojnie secesyjnej [1], jak również w stanach nienależących do Konfederacji [2].
the new jim crow is the old jim crow 1005 introduction Our nation’s canonical racial histories tell a story of dramatic change.1 Re-sistance to racial equality in the civil rights era (“old racism”) is conceptualized, as Jeanne Theoharis puts it, as “personal hatefulness . . . the governor snarling
