Jim Crow Laws

This disquieting yet important book describes the injustices humiliations and brutalities inflicted on African Americans in a racist culture that was createdand protectedby the forces of law and order. Jim Crow Laws presents the history of the discriminatory laws that segregated people by race in the American South from the end of the Civil War through passage of the 1965 Civil Rights Act. To paint a true picture of these deplorable restrictions this book provides a detailed analysis of the creation defense justification and fight against the Jim Crow system. Among the subjects covered here are the origins of legal inequality for African Americans in the aftermath of the Civil War; the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in weakening constitutional protections against discrimination established in the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments; the white justification of segregation; and the extreme brutality of Jim Crow''s defenders. Equally important readers will learn about the psychological political social and economic costs endured by the victims of Jim Crow inequality as well as about the motivations rejections and successes faced by those who stood against these abominations.