Jim crow laws

"Jim crow laws"
This does not mean anything in english, it does not make sense.
Perhaps you have copied the sentance wrongly if this is the case ask again in this thread.

dadpad - I don't know how old you are, but I can remember "Jim Crow Laws", where black people were separated from white. In the late 1940's, I can remember taking a train from NY to Florida. As soon as we passed Washington D.C., ( the Mason-Dixon line, which separated the north from the south) a curtain was drawn in the dining car. Black people sat on one side of the curtain, whites on the other.

In a Florida department store, there were four bathrooms. White male, white female, black male, and black female. There were two drinking fountains, one for whites, and one for blacks. Black people, (in those days black people were called, "colored" or "Negro") had to sit at the back of the bus. Black people could not eat at store lunch counters. In the South, some states had laws barring marriages between whites and blacks. They were called miscegenation laws. Black and white children went to different schools.

It was during the Civil Rights Movement, that these laws were overturned.

Here are some articles about the history of the Jim Crow laws:

http://www.nps.gov/elro/glossary/jim-crow-laws.htm

http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.htm

ah ha! ok Phoenix..... No Jim Crow laws in Australia. I dont ever remember hearing this spoken of as "jim crow laws". Obviously I am aware of the segregation issuse.

Perhaps when statements dont make sense I should say they dont make sense "to me"

dadpad- I think that is what is so great about A2K. Having people here from all over the world, I learn something new every day!

The Jim Crow laws came out of the end of the American Civil War, in 1865. Slavery was a big issue in that war. Once slavery ended, the slave states (in the south) attempted to keep black people as 2nd class citizens.

yes phx I knew all that, just not the term jim crow laws.

Learning some thing new is also what i like about A2K and the variety of personalities which helps to dispell the steriotypes.

dadpad- I knew that you knew that, but I didn't know if cooljuly did, therefore the explanation.

thank you
thank both of you !!I know it now .really . :wink: thank you very much!