Emergence of jim crow violence

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Subject Area:Sociology

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For most Southern blacks, other hazards emerged in their daily lives such as white employers taking sexual advantage of black maids, white landowners cheating black tenant workers as well as blacks receiving insulations from the whites. As a result of this, the blacks were empowered by the whites whereby land securing for blacks failed leading the Whites to control the Blacks from the Southern States economically. How Jim Crow Laws and Violence Emerged During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the end of Reconstruction period and the beginning of Civil Rights movement, a system of Jim Crow Laws (both state and local laws) was enacted to enforce racial segregation in the Southern States. The proposals were put in place in efforts to uphold the racial discrimination after the end of the civil war.

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At first, the Jim Crow Laws obligated the whites and the Blacks to be separated in all sectors of public transportation and also in schools (Mattias, 2016). Specifically, the racial segregation that took part between the White and Black Americans resulted to the process of emergence of Jim Crow violence, with the Supreme court’s ruling over a separate but equal concept leading to further violence due to the failure of meeting the concept conditions. Reasons for the emergence of Jim Crow Violence Racial Segregation was the primary factor for implementation of the Jim Crow Laws upon the rise of the civil rights movement at the outset of the reconstruction period. Therefore, Jim Crow violence emerged due to the inconveniences between the Whites and the Blacks after the involvement of the Supreme Court ruling that was not obeyed to the maximum.

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