The Pros And Cons Of Jim Crow Laws

In many ways we stereotype people based on their characteristics and tend to judge them in a positive and negative manner depending on, the different types of the out-groups we place them in. Such as envied out-group, pitied out-group and despised out-group. When we restrict interactions with out-groups. Dominant groups limit social interaction with out-groups which maintains group boundaries and limit access to out-group members. These limitations are useful, when the law is put out or unbreakable by spatial boundaries and physical segregation. In the past, many groups of people have been put down and hurt by other group that believes that they were superior. African American has been seen being put down by the white group. There has been

They were considered as the out-group members compared to the whites who conquered their rights. The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that were achieved between 1876 and 1965. They authorized de jure (or legalized) racial segregation in public facilities in the entire south, apparently with a "separate but equal" stand for African Americans. Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The separation led to financial assistance, treatment, and shelters that were usually lower compared to the white Americans. African Americans were denied the right to vote, and violence was used to keep blacks beneath whites in their racial hierarchy. The Disfranchisement in the south was the denial to Poll Taxes, literacy test, and grandfathers’ clauses. The grandfathers prevented a lot of blacks Americas to vote, because grandfather was black. Violence took place in lynching and courting and the KKK and other related groups used violence to suppress black political action to make sure the election of segregationist democrats. “If any Blacks tried to fight the system, their life would be at risk” (Moore