Jim Crowism

Racism and gender segregation and abuse are beliefs on the physical abilities of a group or a person to dictates their abilities and that one of the person or group is superior naturally as compared to the other person or group. Classical examples are in the history of African Americans. The paper analyzes the major experiences and conditions that African Americans passed through before the 1868 civil war that unbound them and the responses that African Americans developed during such challenges and conditions.
African Americans were segregated against. Segregation basing on racial was used by the American Whites so as to place the Black American in status of subordinate (Wormser, 51). They denied the blacks equal access to facilities for the public. In the slavery time, African Americans were manly located in the South of America in areas that were mainly rural. Jim Crow became the term synonymous with racial segregation. In 1857 during Dred vs Sanford, the Supreme Court ruled that Black Americans were not citizens of the United States (Wormser, 59) . Whites from northern had already started excluding Blacks from seats in public transport. Entry into restaurants and hotels was equally monitored and only servants from the Black community were allowed. Churches were also segregated. Ida Wells gives further account of the suffering the black men were exposed to. Men were being lynched by whites whenever accused of incidents such as rap. The white believed that by lynching black men, they were protecting the dignity and rights of their women. African Americans lacked their constitutional rights as citizens during Jim Crowism.
During Jim Crow, African Americans suffered discrimination that affected all their life aspect (Wormser, 79)...

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... different Jim Crowism responses. By 1910 accommodation was the prevailing response that deemphasized on southern blacks pursuit for political and social equality.
Laws that banned discrimination, that were supported programs of affirmative action ended Jim Crowism period in late 1960s. Brave government and activists played major role in the enrollment of black students in schools perceived to be all white. The rights of African Americans were protected and in the 1970s there was a sharp increase in the number of blacks elected in the government. Tom Bradley became the first black to be voted in as a Mayor in the major city of Los Angles in 1973. Even with the gains, the fight over racial segregation and prejudice in the Unites States continued to the twenty-first century.

Works Cited

Wormser, R. The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003.