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The Life African Americans under the Jim Crow Laws

 

Crow. This behavior was disgraceful for it portrayed African Americans as foolish and moronic. Therefore, it illustrated Jim Crow Laws as rules for out-of-control menaces that needed to be secluded from everyone else. The prejudiced whites that watched the display found it entertaining and it became very popular. Soon the term "Jim Crow" was adopted into their vocabulary.
             The Jim Crow Laws were the most immoral laws supported by the US legislation in history. They were devised to prevent blacks from advancing economically, socially, and politically. By isolating blacks, it made it impossible for them to compete with the working class and get equal wages. The whites didn't want to have any contact with their "inferior race" and they lived their lives without encountering with African Americans by setting up separate black and white facilities. Segregation laws made it illegal for blacks and whites to share the same parks, public transportation, cemeteries, orphanages, bathrooms, and water fountains. There was so much hatred for this one race that they could not share the same prisons. Even the white lowlifes were of a higher respectability. In New Orleans, a law was adopted which segregated black and white prostitutes. To make sure whites would not have to cross paths with blacks in movie houses, theaters, and boarding houses, separate entrances and exits were set up. Separate textbooks, elevators, and phone booths were issued. There were even Jim Crow Bibles for black witnesses in court!.
             In most instances, the black facilities were greatly inferior and generally older and less well kept. If any blacks violated the laws, they risked their homes, their jobs, even their lives. Whites had permission to physically beat blacks. The most extreme forms of Jim Crow violence were lynchings. They were public murders carried out by mobs. This was a sick way to punish and scare African Americans to succumb to their superior race.


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