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[[File:Jim Crow.jpg|thumb|right|A typical sign seen during the Jim Crow era denoting segregated drinking fountains.]] | [[File:Jim Crow.jpg|thumb|right|A typical sign seen during the Jim Crow era denoting segregated drinking fountains.]] | ||
{{Quote|If it may be said of the slavery era that the white man took the world and gave the Negro Jesus, then it may be said of the Reconstruction era that the southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow. He gave him Jim Crow. And when his wrinkled stomach cried out for the food that his empty pockets could not provide, he ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than the black man. And he ate Jim Crow. And when his undernourished children cried out for the necessities that his low wages could not provide, he showed them the Jim Crow signs on the buses and in the stores, on the streets and in the public buildings. And his children, too, learned to feed upon Jim Crow, their last outpost of psychological oblivion. Thus, the threat of the free exercise of the ballot by the Negro and the white masses alike resulted in the establishment of a segregated society.|[[wikipedia:Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin Luther King Jr.]] in his "How Long, Not Long" speech.}} | {{Quote|If it may be said of the slavery era that the white man took the world and gave the Negro Jesus, then it may be said of the Reconstruction era that the southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow. He gave him Jim Crow. And when his wrinkled stomach cried out for the food that his empty pockets could not provide, he ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than the black man. And he ate Jim Crow. And when his undernourished children cried out for the necessities that his low wages could not provide, he showed them the Jim Crow signs on the buses and in the stores, on the streets and in the public buildings. And his children, too, learned to feed upon Jim Crow, their last outpost of psychological oblivion. Thus, the threat of the free exercise of the ballot by the Negro and the white masses alike resulted in the establishment of a segregated society.|[[wikipedia:Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin Luther King Jr.]] in his "How Long, Not Long" speech.}} | ||
The '''Jim Crow laws''' were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States, largely arising in the immediate aftermath of the end of [[slavery]] after the [[American Civil War]]. The Jim Crow era is considered to be the peak of [[white supremacy]] and [[Negrophobia|anti-black]] [[racism]] in the United States. | The '''Jim Crow laws''' were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States, largely arising in the immediate aftermath of the end of [[slavery]] after the [[American Civil War]]. The Jim Crow era is considered to be the peak of [[White Power Movement|white supremacy]] and [[Negrophobia|anti-black]] [[racism]] in the United States. | ||
Other areas of the United States were affected by formal and informal policies of segregation as well, but many states outside the South had adopted laws, beginning in the late 19th century, banning [[discrimination]] in public accommodations and voting. Southern laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by African Americans during the Reconstruction period. Jim Crow laws were enforced until 1965. | Other areas of the United States were affected by formal and informal policies of segregation as well, but many states outside the South had adopted laws, beginning in the late 19th century, banning [[discrimination]] in public accommodations and voting. Southern laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by African Americans during the Reconstruction period. Jim Crow laws were enforced until 1965. | ||