Remembering Jim Crow Slideshow Born into the Jim Crow South, Rosanell’s upbringing was marked by segregated schools and cross burnings on her front lawn Upon reaching voting age, Rosanell traveled hours by mule-pulled wagon After the 1896 Plessy v Ferguson decision, segregation became even more ensconced through a battery of Southern laws and social customs known as “Jim Crow” Schools, theaters, restaurants
Remembering Jim Crow Slideshow The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century Today we remember the product of this Christian nationalist movement as Jim Crow, the brutal and repressive set of laws and practices that structured American life from the 1890s through the 1960s Sixty years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the legislation prohibited discrimination in public spaces and employment, Black Americans share memories of Jim Crow laws It’s almost at It was considered the anthem of civil rights activism in America After that, she raised her voice against the Jim Crow Act through her song 'Old Jim Crow' (The law that enforced racial
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