Talk: Jim Crow law
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I am curious about who the "redeemers" were and whether this is the most appropriate name for them. --Daniel C. Boyer
The redeemers were southerners that took control of the state governments after the end of the Civil War. redeemers are what they called themselves and what other people called them.
I have no time to edit the 20th century section, but I think it's important that the movers and shakers responsible for the overturning of Jim Crow have some mention here. The methodical, concerted strategy of the NAACP in tackling higher education, then elementary education, then public accommodations and the actors in those legal battles deserve mention. No account of Jim Crow can be complete without the names of Thurgood Marshall, Robert Carter and James Nabrit, et al., who meticulously went about constructing a series of cases challenging segregation in public education. Important among these was a case initiated by a young high school student, Barbara Johns, in Prince Edward County, Maryland, who initiated a school walk-out and prevailed upon the NAACP to take on the PEC school system. After defying numerous court orders to desegregate its schools, PEC officials simply shut down, countywide, ALL public schools for a period of five years.
Further, there is no mention of the fact that, despite the striking down of de jure segregation, de facto segregation persists in this nation -- most notably in public education. One glaring example remains the Prince Edward County public education system.deeceevoice 07:53, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
1723?
Where did this date of 1723 as the first Jim Crow law come from? Is nobody else confused by the fact that this date is over one hundred years before the Civil War as well as 54 years before the American independence from Britain? My investigations have shown the earliest possible date for a "Jim Crow" law to be 1877. Furthermore, investigations of the date 1723 in relation to the state of Virginia show that it was a) not a state and b) enacting only one of a history of statutes biased against slaves.
Since Jim Crow laws explicitly apply to freed blacks being kept in continual social and political oppression (but not sanctioned slavery) through exclusitory lawmaking, I cannot find any logic in the facts attached to this 1723 date. The fact it has spread to other articles and across the Internet through the hordes of Wikilazyripoffs and people might actually be taking this date at face value is mildly unsettling.
I am modifying this information. If anyone happens to have factual knowledge that proves my stance inaccurate, I will gladly concede the point and approve of any reversals of my actions.
