Jim Crow was a racial system which operated primarily, but not just in south and in the Border States, between 1877 and 1960. Jim Crow was more than a series of “anti-Black laws”. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were demoted to the second class, Negros couldn’t eat on the same restaurants as the White and the children couldn’t go to the same school as the white children. Jim Crow made anti-Black racism legal. Politicians gave speeches about the danger of integration. Newspaper and magazine writers’ articles about the black people, and they don’t call them Negros but niggers, coons, and darkies. All major institutions supported the oppression of Black people.
When most people think of Jim Crow they think of laws which excluded Blacks from public transport and facilities, juries, jobs, and neighborhoods.
Blacks were denied the right to vote, and only Democrats could vote, and only the White people could be Democrats.
Jim Crow laws touched every aspect of everyday. For example, in 1935, Oklahoma banned Blacks and Whites from boating together. In 1905, Georgia established parks for Blacks and Whites. In 1930, Birmingham and Alabama made it illegal for Blacks and Whites to play checkers or dominoes together.
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