Jim Crow Laws

separatism and disfranchisement laws were oft supported, moreover, by brutal acts of ceremonial and ritualized mob vi olence (lynchings) against gray blacks. Indeed, from 1889 to 1930, over 3,700 men and women were reported lynched in the United Statesmost of whom were grey blacks. Hundreds of other lynchings and acts of mob terror aimed at brutalizing blacks occurred throughout the era only when went unreported in the press.Numerous race riots erupted in the Jim vaporing era, usually in towns and cities and almost always in defense of separatism and white supremacy. These riots engulfed the population from Wilmington, South Carolina, to Houston, Texas from East St. Louis and Chicago to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the courses from 1865 to 1955. The riots usually erupted in urban areas to which southern, rural blacks had recently migrated. In the single year of 1919, at least twenty-five incidents were recorded, with numerous deaths and hundreds of people injured.So bloody was this sum mer of that year that it is known as the Red Summer of 1919. The so-called Jim Crow segregation laws gained significant impetus from U. S. Supreme Court rulings in the last cardinal decades of the nineteenth century. In 1883, the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional the civic Rights Act of 1875. The 1875 law stipulated That all persons shall be entitled to full and jibe enjoyment of the ac Some historians believe that a Mr. Crow have the slave who inspired Rices actthus the reason for the Jim Crow consideration in the lyrics.In any case, Rice incorporated the skit into his minstrel act, and by the 1850s the Jim Crow character had become a standard part of the minstrel certify scene in America. On the eve of the Civil War, the Jim Crow subject was one of many stereotypical images of black inferiority in the fashionable culture of the dayalong with Sambos, Coons, and Zip Dandies. The word Jim Crow became a racial slur synonymous with black, colored, or Negro in the diction of many whites and by the end of the century acts of racial discrimination toward blacks were often referred to as Jim Crow laws and practices.