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 Matures

Most of the legislative agenda had been completed by southern segregationists, by 1900. The disfranchisement of blacks was virtually completing, and the voter roll also has been reduced, with the help of devices like the literacy tests, poll taxes, and the grandfather clauses (which is denying the suffrage to the one whose grandfather has ineligible to vote). The creation of separate society was approved by the Supreme Court in 1896 decision of Plessey v. Ferguson. This decision supported the Louisiana law, which was claiming for separate but equal railroad facilities for blacks and white. After 1900, the vague idea of separate but equal was immediately implemented to all aspect of southern life, still without any effort to make things equal. During 1915, South Carolina's per capita income was twelve times greater for education, as compare to black children. Even in the south hotels, movie theatre, water fountain, swimming pools, and restaurants, there is limitation exists for blacks. The law that separating white from black is commonly named as the Jim Crow laws, related to black inferior class. (George, 2001)Southern Paradoxes

This perception is rooted in the first half of the twentieth century, when the South stood as a rebuke to the forces of industrialization and urbanization that would peak in the Florist-Keynesian internationalism of the post-war period. Part apartheid state, part banana republic, the South nation was having the number one economic problem during the Depression and its number one social problem in the post-war decades. Images of rural poverty and reactionary racial politics have endured, despite the efforts of boosters to declare a progressive new South'' exorcised of the demons of slavery and Jim Crow, and despite robust regional patterns of population gain, industrialization and urbanization since the 1960s. (Fremon, 2003)

As Brushing's title suggests, it is virtually impossible to talk about the Southern United States without invoking the concept of paradox. The Civil Rights Movement created heroes and villains alike, and the backwards'' South contributed the nation's most innovative modern literature as well as the musical revolutions that now dominate global popular culture. In the latter case, Memphis' centrality is well known: ''the fusion of blues, gospel and country music in Memphis became rock and roll; hence, Memphis music, created by a rural underclass, transformed popular culture throughout the world'' (p. 25). Moreover, far from being a reactionary bastion in the face of globalization, the South has in fact, been at the vanguard of economic restructuring, for better or worse. (George, 2001)

Northern Views

During the progressive Era, the racism in North was as much same as in the south. The main thing was that it was more obvious in South as compare to north. The lynching and race riot frequency that was the common aspect of South was also common in North. In North, the social systems were based on geographic, custom and economic factors, rather than the law. Facing such pressure of racism and repression, Black people started to listen to the opposing arguments of their two black leaders, W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, who were commonly known as the wizard of Tuskegee. They recommended that black should agree on the loss of their political rights and concentrate more on improvement of their economic independence. Whites supported Washington's conciliatory, gradual approach. Du Bois, a Harvard-educated black intellectual, advocated immediate direct action to obtain civil rights and ...