The segregation and discrimination after the Civil War in America - Jim Crow - Ku-Klux-Klan

Jim Crow

Who was Jim Crow?  Jim Crow was the invention of the comedian Thomas D. Rice. He played a stereotype of a singing and dancing black man, who was unintelligent, but happy with his life.  It was also known as a slang name for a black man.

What was the reason for the Jim Crow Laws?  After the Civil War (or the s.c. Emancipation Proclamation ) under Abraham Lincoln, the Southern States were supposed to stop the slavery.  The southern Landlords had the right to let their land to the old slaves, who than had to give a part of their crops the Landlords. → Sharecropping  After a few years, the poor lodgers were more and more in dept. (Down-spiral)  When the army troops arrived in the time of the Reconstruction period, they pretended the “New slavery system“ because there have been the Amendments of Constitution (Verfassungsänderungen) and a law called the abolition of slavery.  Also the right for every citizen with an american origin to vote was established with the Amendments of Constitution → unexperienced blacks could be easily tricked by white politicans  After the troops left, the constitution failed

The 1890s Status: “separate but equal”  After the Reconstruction period, the whites got their supremacy back  Segregation and discrimination in all times of everyday life of the black people  In 1890, the southern States passed the Jim Crow Laws  In 1896, the case of Plessy v. Ferguson verified the Laws

Segregation in all stations of everyday life:

Civil Rights Act of 1964