Jim Crow Alabama

Jin Crow laws were laws that imposed racial segregation. They existed in the South and originated from the black codes that were imposed from 1865 to 1866 and from prewar segregation on the railroad cars in the northern cities. The laws sprouted up in the late nineteenth century after the Reconstruction and lasted until the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The Supreme Court set the stage for Jim Crow laws by several of its decisions. The Court concluded that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional and ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment did not prohibit individuals and private organizations for discriminating on the basis of race. One of the southern states that the Jim Crow laws had the most impact on was Alabama. The Jim Crow laws of Alabama can be broken down into many different classifications. Some examples of these groups are Jim Crow according to transportation, entertainment, health care,, the criminal justice system, and everyday conversation.

Examples of Jim Crow Alabama in transportation are that all passenger station operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races and 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.

There were many things that kept African Americans from enjoying themselves with regards to entertainment. It was illegal to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city 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 several feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is approved. African Americans and whites were not permitted to eat together under no circumstance, if it were to happen whites would be served first after the partition was assembled. It was also illegal for an African American and a white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool, billiards, or general recreation.

It was already incredibly hard for African Americans to get the medical attention when needed, but the Jim Crow laws seemed to make it even harder. For Example, no person or corporation were to require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which black men were placed.

There were also many guidelines according to the Jim Crow laws that were administered that African Americans were to follow when just simply conversing with whites. Some of these include: never assert or even intimate that a white person is lying, never impute dishonorable intentions to a white person, never suggest that a white person is from an inferior class, never lay claim to, or overly demonstrate superior knowledge or intelligence, never curse a white person, never laugh derisively at a white person, and