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The most direct effect of poll taxes and literacy tests on African Americans was to prevent them from voting. Poll taxes were part of Jim Crow laws.
Jim Crow is most famous for his "Jim Crow Laws," which said that certain facilities in the South were to be racially segregated, coining the phrase, "separate but equal."
There were different responses in the African American community to the establishment of Jim crow segregation through legislation and custom in the states of the American south. Most people accepted the laws. Others began to rally against the laws.
Jim Crow is a name, but not the name of a person. The words "Jim Crow" are symbolic of racism - especially in the United States. To live in a Jim Crow nation means that the nation has rules that treat their people differently because of their ethnicity. Most of the time, however, the state does not treat them fairly, but as one race is inferior to the other(s).
Jim Crow laws were laws that were passed in the south after the civil war that separated white and black people in public and private facilities. Laws like this lost African Americans their voting rights in Southern states. It got its name from a minstrel-show character who sang a comic song ending in the words, "Jump, Jim Crow."
the south, where the Jim crow laws were in effect
The most direct effect of poll taxes and literacy tests on African Americans was to prevent them from voting. Poll taxes were part of Jim Crow laws.
not in most states
Jim Crow laws are a backlash against Reconstruction policies after Reconstruction ended. Most African American lawmakers were unseated before the Jim Crow laws were passed.
Jim Crow is most famous for his "Jim Crow Laws," which said that certain facilities in the South were to be racially segregated, coining the phrase, "separate but equal."
There were different responses in the African American community to the establishment of Jim crow segregation through legislation and custom in the states of the American south. Most people accepted the laws. Others began to rally against the laws.
the south, where the Jim crow laws were in effect
Jim Crow is a name, but not the name of a person. The words "Jim Crow" are symbolic of racism - especially in the United States. To live in a Jim Crow nation means that the nation has rules that treat their people differently because of their ethnicity. Most of the time, however, the state does not treat them fairly, but as one race is inferior to the other(s).
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Jim Crow laws were laws that were passed in the south after the civil war that separated white and black people in public and private facilities. Laws like this lost African Americans their voting rights in Southern states. It got its name from a minstrel-show character who sang a comic song ending in the words, "Jump, Jim Crow."
Jim Crow laws
The most prominent laws and rulings of the 1950's dealt with integration and "Jim Crow" or "separate but equal". Laws concerning the mentally ill also came to the forefront.