Segregation
"Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" - George Wallace
The oppression of African Americans only continues further through segregation with the passing of the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws were the whites' way of making the nation "committed to the preservation of racial segregation by custom and law." Whites will become extremely violent when it comes to the interpretation of these laws and their punishments.
By 1955, 10 million African American citizens had been segregated.
Jim Crow Laws
These laws pertained to race in regards to marriage, education, prisons, entertainment, transportation, and more. Below are a few examples:
Maryland: steamboats
South Carolina: buses, jitneys, public parks, pools, beaches
Montgomery, AL: cards, dominoes, checkers, billiards, restaurants
Texas: libraries, boxing, wrestling, testimony in court, act of Texas legislation Oct 26, 1866
Thomasville, GA: cemeteries
Delaware: interracial marriage
Louisiana: circuses, Interracial marriage, cohabitation
Arkansas: prisons, jails
North Carolina: school textbooks
Birmingham, AL: nursing
Nebraska: interracial marriage
Mississippi: racial equality
Idaho: alcohol 1947
Oklahoma: fishing, boating, bathing 1949
This map is to give a general idea of the number of Jim crow laws across America. Today, information on these laws in their entirety can be hard to find.
Hover over a state to see its information
Segregation Signs
Below is a page from the EJI website showing a timeline of racial events.