7th-Jim+Crow+Laws

What Are The Jim Crow Laws?

Jim crow laws were, rigid anti-black laws that promoted segregation. Under these laws blacks were treated as 2nd class citizens 
 * Blacks could not shake hands with white males for it implied that they were socially equals.
 * Blacks and whites were not supposed to eat together if they did eat together whites were ALWAYS served first, and there was a barrier in between them.
 * White motorists had the right away at all intersections
 * If a black person was riding in a car driven by a white person they had to sit in the back seat or bed of a truck
 * Blacks were not allowed to show public relations toward one another, because it offended white people
 * Under no circumstances could a black male offer a cigarette light to a white female, because it implied intimacy
 * Whites did not have to use "social titles" when referring to a black citizen, but blacks had to use them for whites.

 When was the time frame this happened?

The laws started to show up around 1877 but wasn't legitimized until 1896. This is because most politicians found it a very touchy subject to debate on. Before the actual law most were brutally beaten for disobeying whites, this just gave them a right to do it. Lynchings kept occurring in the name of the Jim Crow Laws till 1951, which it was now they started beating white human right activists as well as blacks.Most of the time police officers participated in such lynching against human rights activists. Once word got out that they were beating whites as well riots started to form against Jim Crow Laws. After 1951 things started to calm down, because the laws were abolished after that year. Even though the laws were abolished whites were still prejudice everywhere from the"North" to the "South." They just did in more lawful ways instead of beatings, such as not accepting black job applications.