JIM CROW AND NATIVISM: RACISM FOR TERROR AND EXCLUSION

Jim Crow and Nativism: Racism for Terror and Exclusion

Jim Crow and Nativism: Racism for Terror and Exclusion

Jim Crow laws were local laws and state of the United States issued between 1876 and 1965. In fact served to create and maintain racial segregation in all public services, establishing a defined status of “separate but equal "for American blacks and members of other racial groups other than white. Some examples of Jim Crow laws were the separation in public schools, public places and on public transport and differentiation of bathrooms and restaurants, and those for whites than for blacks. Even within the ' army was applied to racial segregation. Jim Crow Laws were separate from blacks codes for the period 1800 - 66 which in turn had reduced rights and civil liberties of African Americans. Racial segregation in schools organized by the states was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1954, with Brown v. Board of Education. In general, the remaining Jim Crow laws were repealed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

In addition to the problems that people in the south met in the new organization of a system of free labor after the end of slavery, American blacks in the eyes of the people were the symbol of the defeat of the federal government in the civil war: "While the concept of white supremacy was challenged throughout the South, many whites sought to protect their old status threatening African-Americans who were exercising their new rights. " The white Democrats used their power to enforce segregation in all public places and restore the domain of whites over blacks in the south.

One of the justifications for the systematic exclusion of African Americans from the southern societies was that they did this for their own protection. A scholar of the early twentieth century suggested that allowing blacks to attend white schools would have meant "continuously exposed to hostile feelings and opinions," that could lead to "an unhealthy race consciousness".

After the Second World War, African Americans began to challenge with increasing frequency the system of segregation, as believed, due to the fact that military service and sacrifices also supported by their community, that he had earned the right to be considered U.S. citizens fully. The civil rights movement of African Americans also gained strength due to some key episodes, such as the racist aggression war veteran Isaac Woodard occurred while still wearing the uniform of the army. While the civil rights movement was spreading and he used the federal courts to attack Jim Crow statutes and laws, governments in many southern states, dominated by whites, responded by adopting alternative forms to enforce segregation. The NAACP Legal Defense Committee (a group became independent of the NAACP) and their attorney Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court took up the famous case Brown v. Board of Education. With its fundamental decision of 1954, the Court unanimously overturned the decision taken in 1895 ...