Jim Crow Laws

When I think of people who want to suppress something or defiant, they usually feel guilty. How could anybody feel guilty about something that ended 157 years ago. Nobody on this planet would have to take responsibility for something that old. It would have to be something much more recent then that. So welcome to Jim Crow and the Jim Crow Laws. You may argue that this wasn’t slavery and if you do; you must ask yourself what is slavery?

Jim Crow laws—which existed for about 100 years, from the post-Civil War era until 1968—were meant to marginalize Black people by first, denying them the right to vote.

After the 14th and 15th amendement was passed and the states not being allowed to violate those; southern states created a new plan to stop their ability to vote.

They required they pay a tax or prove they owned $500 in property, others required they passed literacy tests. These went into the early 1900’s. Now whites were given loopholes with one being the grandfather clause. If your grandfather had ever voted in the past that would automatically allow you the right to vote and get around the property and literacy test. Not a single black persons grandfather had ever voted in the past for obvious reasons.

Those who attempted to defy Jim Crow laws often faced arrest, fines, jail sentences, violence and death.