What is Jim Crow Law?

Question

For what purpose was it kept?

Answer 1

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and in force between 1876 and 1964 that required racial segregation, especially of African-Americans, in all public facilities. "Jim Crow period" or the "Jim Crow era" refers to the time during which this practice occurred. The most important laws required that public schools and most public places (including trains and buses) have separate facilities for whites and blacks. (These Jim Crow Laws were separate from the 1800-1866 Black Codes, which had restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans.)

samples of the laws enacted by various states.

Alabama

Health Care

No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which ***** men are placed.

Transportation

All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races.

The conductor of each passenger train is authorized and required to assign each passenger to the car or the division of the car, when it is divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger belongs.

Public Facilities

It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment.

It shall be unlawful for a ***** and white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards.

Every employer of white or ***** males shall provide for such white or ***** males reasonably accessible and separate toilet facilities.

Arizona

Marriage

The marriage of a person of Caucasian blood with a *****, Mongolian, Malay, or Hindu shall be null and void.

Florida

Marriage/Cohabitation

All marriages between a white person and a *****, or between a white person and a person of ***** descent to the fourth generation inclusive, are hereby forever prohibited.

Any ***** man and white woman, or any white man and ***** woman, who are not married to each other, who shall habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twelve 12 months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Education

The schools for white children and the schools for ***** children shall be conducted separately.

Georgia

Health Care

The Board of Control shall see that proper and distinct apartments are arranged for said patients, so that in no case shall Negroes and white persons be together.

Marriage

It shall be unlawful for a white person to marry anyone except a white person. Any marriage in violation of this section shall be void.

Public Facilities

No colored barber shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls.

The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any colored persons upon ground set apart or used for the burial of white persons.

All persons licensed to conduct a restaurant, shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room or serve the two races anywhere under the same license.

It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play baseball on any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a playground devoted to the ***** race, and it shall be unlawful for any amateur colored baseball team to play baseball in any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of any playground devoted to the white race.

It shall be unlawful for colored people to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the benefit, use and enjoyment of white persons...and unlawful for any white person to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the use and benefit of colored persons.

All persons licensed to conduct the business of selling beer or wine...shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room at any time. Jim Crow laws were laws that restricted the freedom of African Americans from the 1880s to the 1960s. Here are sample laws enacted in various states.

Kentucky

Reform Schools

The children of white and colored races committed to the houses of reform shall be kept entirely separate from each other.

Answer 2

Jim Crow Law---were laws that were passed in the Southern states to keep the people of different races separate. These practices were expecially common for public places such as; schools, buses, trains, etc. In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson passed a law into Congress that desegregated all schools and other areas.

The purpose of this law was basically to keep blacks and whites separate.

Answer 3

Jim Crow laws were primarily used to disenfranchise black people. Education was not equally available, if you couldn't write your name you could not vote, had to be a property owner to vote, blacks not allowed to own property in the voting district, gerimandering to the point that black neighborhoods or districts were actually left out of the process altogether, not in a voting ditrict, you can't vote for anything.

As they were outlawed, new ones would crop up - Until LBJ signed put the Voting Rights Act(s) into effect in the mid '60's.

Answer 4

Jim Crow laws were racist laws that kept African Americans from their rights. Such as segregated bathrooms, denying of healthcare because of race, and so on. These laws were made out of hate and to keep African Americans from gaining power and respect.

Answer 5

segregation of whites and blacks in the south, for the purpose of keeping black people ignorant of their potential