The Legacy Of The Jim Crow Era - 1917 Words

Phil Robertson the patriarch of Duck Dynasty has little to no knowledge about the events that happen in the Jim Crow era. To see how wrong he is lets take a look at the Jim Crow era. First Jim Crow was the name of the racial class method which operated mainly, but not purely in the south, between eighteen seventy-seven and the nineteen sixty. Jim Crow was more than a series of severe anti black laws. It was a way of life to african americans. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second class citizens. Jim Crow represented the legitimization of anti-black racism. Many Christian ministers and theologians taught that caucasian were the Chosen people, african americans were cursed to be servants, and God†¦show more content†¦Sexual relations between african americans and caucasian would produce a bastard race which would destroy The United States, treating african americans as equals would encourage interracial sexual unions, any activity which sugge sted social equality encouraged interracial sexual relations; if necessary, violence must be used to keep african americans at the bottom of the racial hierarchy. Black people where not treated as equal and this continued because the Jim Crow etiquette operated in conjunction with Jim Crow laws . People like Phil Robertson did not see that the Jim Crow laws where mainly there to excluded african americans from public transport and amenities, juries, jobs and school districts . When they passed the 13, 14, and 15th Amendments, the Constitution had granted african americans the same legal protections as caucasian. However, after eighteen seventy-seven, and the election of Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, southern and border states began restricting the liberties of african americans. Unfortunately for african americans, the Supreme Court helped undermine the Constitutional protections of african americans with the infamous Plessy v Ferguson case, which legitimized Jim Crow laws and the Jim Crow way of life.