Jim Crow Laws Research Paper

The Jim Crow laws was established in 1877 under President Woodrow Wilson. The Jim Crow law was an anti-black laws it forbid African American from doing a lot of things.it was upheld racial segregation that African Americans could, once again, be punished for the most simple of acts, for example Blacks could be punished for walking down the street if they did not move out of the way quickly enough to accommodate White passerby, for talking to friends on a street corner, for speaking to someone White, and for making direct eye contact with someone white. (Chapter 3, the Jim Crow Segregation Statues section, para. 5). Black children couldn’t play with black children, all these are different ways that the white population downgraded
the Black population. The criminalization of African Americans and the racialization of crime continued through the 1900s culminating during the Civil Rights Movement when racist interests turned to punitive crime policy to thwart the gains being made. Alexander Michelle book The New Jim Crow shows different ways that racism plays a big role in the justice system. The Jim Crow laws shows us how racism plays an important part in the civil right movements.
Crime Policy It is during this time that professor and author Michelle Alexander (2010) argues in The New Jim Crow that racist white interests began a call for a punitive crackdown on crime which was conveniently linked to the Civil Rights Movement (pp. 40-42).Latinos and Blacks tend to be sentence more harshly than whites for lower crimes such as drug crimes and property crimes. For more than a decade_ from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s conservatives systematically and strategically linked opposition to civil rights legislation to calls for law and order arguing that