Jim Crow Discrimination was a State and Local law related to public/racial segregation in the southern US states.
What was Jim Crow Discrimination?
Jim crow was the name of the Racial Discrimination operated in the southern states of U.S.A between 1877 and the mid 1960s.
Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second class citizens. Jim Crow represented the legitimization of anti-black racism.
The Jim Crow system was undergirded by the following beliefs or rationalizations:
-Whites were superior to blacks in all important ways, including but not limited to intelligence, morality, and civilized behavior
- Sexual relations between blacks and whites would produce a mongrel race which would destroy America
- Treating blacks as equals would encourage interracial sexual unions
- Any activity which suggested social equality encouraged interracial sexual relations
- If necessary, violence must be used to keep blacks at the bottom of the racial hierarchy
What is Racial Segregation?
The practice of restricting people to certain circumscribed areas of residence or to separate institutions , example schools, churches, and facilities like parks, playgrounds, restaurants, restrooms on the basis of race or alleged race.
Racial segregation provides a means of maintaining the economic advantages and superior social status of the politically dominant group, and in recent times it has been employed primarily by white populations to maintain their ascendancy over other groups by means of legal and social color bars.
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