The Strange Career of Jim Crow

Abstract: A 5 page paper discussing the emergence and demise of the South's Jim Crow laws. Segregation was not a primary issue until after the 1896 Supreme Court decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, when the Court decided that the Constitution could support the notion of "separate but equal." A series of Supreme Court decisions in the early 1950s systematically refuted single aspects of that 1896 decision, until the legal battle culminated in the 1954 decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ending legally segregated schools. Bibliography lists 1 source.

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Catagory: Race, Politics & Society

Subcatagory: Sociology, Social Work, & Counseling

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