Jim Crow System #1427

Caption from poster__              Separate, but not equal  The Jim Crow System (Etiquette)    Jim Crow was the name of the racial segregation system, which  operated mostly in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of strict  anti-black laws. It was a way of life. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were given the status of second-class citizens. Jim Crow  helped to make anti-black racism appear right. Many Christian ministers taught that whites were the Chosen people, blacks were cursed to be servants, and God supported racial segregation. Many scientists and teachers at every educational  level, supported the belief that blacks were intellectually and culturally inferior to whites. Pro-segregation politicians gave  persuasive speeches on the great danger of integration: the de- struction of the purity of the white race. Newspaper and magazine writers routinely referred to blacks as niggers, coons, and darkies; and worse