Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow Laws

Introduction

Jim Crow laws refers to the southern U.S. states, as well as border states between 1876-1965 the Advancement of Colored People (mainly for African Americans , but also contains other ethnic groups) apartheid laws. These legal apartheid mandatory public facilities must be in accordance with the different races to isolate use, and under the principle of separate but equal, apartheid is interpreted as does not violate the constitutional protection of the right to equal protection, and therefore able to persist. But the fact that blacks can be enjoyed by most whites compared with often poor, and this differential treatment resulted in blacks has long been in a more vulnerable position in the economic, educational and social.

Discussion

The Jim Crow Laws were enacted in individual states of the South in 1876. They helped to systematize racial segregation for blacks and members of other ethnic groups other than whites. The separation was physical in schools, public places, on public transport, in the bathrooms of restaurants and even had the specific aim of impeding the exercise of the right to vote to those who belonged to these communities.

As they approach the presidential election, some American states members of the Republican Party have proposed laws that if passed would complicate access to voting for certain categories of people, millions of citizens, especially young people, the poor and African Americans, who were traditionally close to Democrats.

The most striking case is that of Pennsylvania, where a law was proposed that binds the registration on the electoral roll needed to vote in the United States, the possession of a document of identification such as a driver's license. If passed, this law will be applied to all voters regardless of party affiliation, but only in appearance is intended to safeguard the election process from fraud. If the law was to be approved, it would prevent vote to almost 759,000 people (9.2 percent of voters in the state). Most of them live in urban areas, historically close to the Democrats, and more than 185 thousand live in Philadelphia, where the Democrats are in majority and there is a large African American community. Similar laws have been proposed in about a dozen U.S. states where the Republican led majority.

Origin of the name Jim Crow

The etymology of the term Jim Crow is unclear, but seems to be linked to (Jump Jim Crow), a popular song written in 1832 by Thomas Dartmouth Daddy Rice, a white comedian who played the rigged by African U.S. From then on, Jim Crow became an insulting expression to indicate African Americans and in 1838, the laws for racial segregation took this name. The term appeared for the first time on the Dictionary of American English in 1904.

The laws of Jim Crow were passed mostly in the south of the country and especially from Democrats, who retained in the southern states after the Civil War took more indulgence toward slavery and racism. Inaugurating the laws Jim Crow was returned to ...