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Find a review of The New Jim Crow. Read it. For homework summarize the article in about 250 words or 1 page. Don't forget to include a works cited section of the summary. It's okay to be analytical in your remarks.
Homework: Read up to page 58 in Alexander. Pull 5-10 arguments from Chapter 1. Be prepared to share with Literature Circle. We will read about two chapter a week (80 pages).
In WLTC complete Writing Assignment 7: "Arguing Both Sides of an Issue" (98). We will do Exercise 4C (92) in class next week.
Bring in a typed response to share and hand in.
Do not use the topics from the book. Use a topic that takes its theme from Yummy: juvenile crime, atonement, punishment, American judicial system, poverty, child neglect, abuse, low income neighborhood, grandparents as parents, drug use, gangs, role models, handguns. . . .
Use the book Yummy, the films we've watched and the Time article as evidence. Yummy is the primary source for this essay.
Students have the option of turning in all assigned WLTC exercises for credit and feedback. It is your choice.
We reviewed WLTC 4E (49-98). There is a library orientation next week. I will post when later today or before the next meeting.
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Edwin Peabody
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English 5
25 February 2012
Alexander, a Professor of Law at Ohio State University, makes her very persuasive case in her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. She argues that the aim of the U.S. government has been not only to keep masses of African-American males behind bars, but also to permanently place them in a subordinate class of society even after they're paroled. She explains that as a result of targeted law enforcement, prosecution and sentencing, African Americans in the 21st Century are being thrown into a caste system with the results being nearly exactly what African Americans faced during the times of Jim crow and slavery. The criminal justice system is causing our African Americans to be labeled as second-class citizens.
Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system, which operated primarily between 1877, and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was a bunch anti-Black laws that harmed African Americans. Under the Jim Crow laws, African Americans were labeled to the status of second-class citizens. Jim Crow represented anti-Black racism. Alexander states that our current system of incarceration falls under the same stigma as being a caste system just like Jim Crow and slavery were.
Alexander argues that our incarceration system is a new caste system working against African Americans. She provides evidence stating that after African American are released from jail or prison after serving time for a felony charge, they now have to face society judging them. Convicted felons face many struggles. They may be ineligible for many federally funded health and welfare benefits, food stamps, public housing, and federal assistance. Their driver's license may be automatically suspended, and he will not be permitted to enlist in the military or obtain a federal security clearance. He may also lose the right to vote.
All of these negative consequences from having a prison or jail record hold African Americans at the label of second-class citizens and also make them subordinate in society today. African American haves a higher advantage of going to prison due to growing up in poor urban environments with no positive support or good influences to follow. Studies show that 1 of 3 African Americans will go to prison or jail. This new caste system of incarceration isn’t doing anything positive. It is only trapping societies African Americans in the lower class box.
Work Cited
Daniel, Lenore. Review: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness: Born Black Magazine 2010.Print
Aaron Villanueva
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English 5
Feb. 27, 2012
Summary Review: The New Jim Crow
Based on what I have read about this review on The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, the reviewer, Cara Kulwicki a feminist writer, disagrees with some of the the argument that Michelle Alexander makes. Michelle is arguing that the drug war is what caused most people of color to be incarcerated in prisons while Cara argues that the drugs became an issue in African American communities not African American being the source of the issue. Cara also argues that crack did not happen to become an issue after the drug war was launched in 1982 when President Reagan declared war on drugs.
According to the review, the “New Jim Crow” metaphor Michelle uses also describes why people of color were sent to prison in the first place and keeping them away from society until they are released making this racial caste system deliberately impossible for people of homeless, color, first time non-violent offenses and others to escape.
Another great argument that Cara makes in her review is that Michelle does not go in depth with the reason why woman are becoming more imprisoned. This is telling me that the book is mostly about African American men who have imprisoned and not showing that more or less the people of color being imprisoned.
After reading the summary, Cara does make a great point that Michelle could make it seem frustrated for arguing that people of color become incarcerated because of the drug war. There are more reasons why people of color become imprisoned and just focusing on one point of the argument doesn’t clearly state a great example of why people become imprisoned. This book seems as if it is very difficult to understand the racial issue that is going on uncovering more in detail of what happened in history.
Work Cited:
TheCurvature.com. Cara Kulwicki. Book Review: The New Jim Crow. Dec. 6. 2011.
Liliulachelle Finley
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Professor Sabir
28 February 2012
Review of The New Jim Crow
The review of The New Jim Crow by Dennis Moore of East County Magazine was one that praised the work of the author, Michelle Alexander. Moore presents the audience with a fact that states that many young black men who are convicted felons have received sentences not just by their "poor choices" but the "evidence of a new racial caste system." This piece of evidence reels in the reader in order to understand the subject underlying his review and Alexander's novel. He then goes on by sharing his own experiences as a father of a young black convicted felon who, at first glance, "had it all," as many would say because his son was a straight A student, a Syracuse university attendant on a scholarship who just happened to meet the wrong group of people. More then points out that Alexander digs down deep into the civil rights history all the way back to pre-Civil War, stating that her book points out things that still exist today. As many would say, "history repeats itself," especially in the justice system. Moore then fills the audience in with some African-American history that is also mentioned in the novel in depth. For example, he mentions how many African -Americans were never given the write to vote because of their race or poll tax or literacy tests. He also mentioned the Civil Rights Movement, led by leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and how things were "segregated but equal." This is to show the importance of the fight that African-Americans have gone through just to ber subjected to racial caste system. He then ends off by sharing the different young Black women and men who were never given the chance they deserved and shares how important they still are and always will be, especially in a case such as this.
Works Cited:
Moore, D. (2010, October 8). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, is an Enlightening Read [Review of the book The New Jim Crow]. East County Magazine. Retrieved from http://eastcountymagazine.org/node/4510
Ana Cristina Muro
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English 5
27 February 2012
Summary of Book Review
Dennis Moore analyzed the book as "the new Jim crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness" as a book of race and incarceration. Michelle Alexander in the book challenges the civil rights community. The author often states statistics to support her thesis. For example she mentions that the United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Alexander’s book has a deep introduction. In order to understand the book one has to also understand the concept of “Jim Crow.” Jim Crow was the name of a racial caste system that operated between 1877 and the mid-1960’s. Dennis Moore has also lived through both sides of the issue, born in the Jim Crow era and the incarceration of inmates in Illinois and California. He is able to understand what Alexander mentions in her book that it is hard to imagine the shame and stigma of the prison label being more damaging to African American community. He mentions that Alexander sums up her book by stating that once you are in the system, and they have you down a s a person who is delinquent it becomes legal to be able to deny you to different opportunities. Dennis Moore believes that Alexander wanted this book to be the start of dialogue on race and ramification of mass incarceration. He believes that she has done it and highly recommends The New Jim Crow.
Works Cited:
Moore, Dennis. "BOOK REVIEW: THE NEW JIM CROW: MASS INCARCERATION IN THE AGE OF COLORBLINDNESS, IS AN ENLIGHTENING READ ." 08 10 2010: n. page. Web. 27 Feb. 2012. .
Tiffanya Richardson
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January 28, 2012
English 5
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The New Jim Crow book review freewrite
The book review on The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The age of Colorblindness written in East county magazine done by Dennis Moore, takes an in depth look at Michelle Alexander’s claim that mass incarceration is evidence that our criminal justice system has become nothing more then a new racial caste system. Alexander uses the historical Jim Crow laws, which legalized segregation and compares them to the systematical imprisonment of black men. Alexander argues that slavery never actually ended, but instead claims that it just transforms into a hidden socially accepted form of oppression.
In her book Alexander points out that this oppression is not mere coincidence but rather a systematic form of slavery; “The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice system (or saddled with criminal records) is not – as many argue – just a symptom of poverty or poor choices, but rather evidence of a new racial caste system at work.” Alexander’s radical and controversial claim forces society and political leaders to take an in depth look at this issue of racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.
The review also points out another radical claim Alexander makes when she compares the label of a prison inmate to the shame experienced by those subjected to Jim Crow laws; “I argue that the shame and stigma of the ‘prison label’ is, in many respects, more damaging to the African American community than the shame and stigma associated with Jim Crow…”
Whether you agree with Alexander’s stance or not this book review definitely displays the importance of a book such as this one. Alexander sparks a level of curiosity of a more in depth look at racial caste systems in general. She urges her readers to take a deeper look and not just accept phenomena’s as just pure coincidence, but to explore trends that may have been present and transformed within society throughout history.
Work Cited
Moore, D. (2010, October 8). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, is an Enlightening Read [Review of the book The New Jim Crow]. East County Magazine. Retrieved from http://eastcountymagazine.org/node/4510
William Everett
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English 5
2/23/12
Summary of a Review
The review starts off by the writer going straight to the cruel saddening facts about our incarcerations. For example the quoted that “The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, dwarfing the rates of nearly every developed country, even surpassing those in highly repressive regimes like Russia, China, and Iran.” . The writer brings us closer in, when they tell reader that they have a child who was subject to our poorly designed judicial system, and lucky for their son his sentence wasn’t serve. The writer goes on to define “Jim Crow” laws which by their definition “racial caste system which operated primarily between 1877 and the mid-1960s.” For the writer the Jim Crow laws represented the legitimization of anti-Black racism. Since they writer was Born during the era they remember the signs which said “No Dogs, Negros, Mexicans,”, The writer explains that the crux of the matter maybe “there has been widespread instances of prosecutorial misconduct in regard to blacks accused of crimes, which might explain to some extent the disparity between the aforementioned statistics of blacks and whites incarcerated.” He sums up the review with Alexander’s quote “Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination – employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service – are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and largely less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.”
Work Cited: http://eastcountymagazine.org/node/4510
Saba Ghanem
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English 5
2/27/12
Free-write: The New Jim Crow review
Dennis Moore, writes in his review that the main message behind Ms. Alexander’s book, is to bring the general public’s awareness to racial justice in the U.S. He then brings in his view of the fact that more than half of the young black men in any large city have been affected by the criminal justice system; even his educated son. However he does not mention what his son was in prison for, or why he was about to get 30 years. He highlights that the author uses real figures or statistics to back her views of how today’s society is under a caste system, as reflected by incarceration rates. This shows the credibility of her hypotheses in the book. He also brings our attention to how the author states that the New Jim Crow of today is not an exact duplication of the old Jim Crow, because then, there was slavery, but rather is modified to fit our present culture and time, but underneath it’s the same caste abuse as was then. I liked how he then gives us the history behind the “Jim Crow” concept. There he states that Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system used in the 1877 to mid 1960’s and was socially acceptable. He then lets us know that he grew up in the Jim Crow era and experienced the segregation and subordination practices of that time, and knows individuals whom the author notes in her book. He also explains important points in the book, like, the shame and stigma brought forth from name labeling individuals and communities in comparison to their economic backgrounds. Then he goes to explain how President Clinton aided the execution of prisoners regardless of their mental state, and how the author, Ms. Alexander, calls for mentally ill prisoners should be sent to mental institutions. I thought it was interesting that he mentions the author’s husband as a prosecutor who actually takes part in the sentences given to the men which she writes about. He ends his review by stating how the author points out that an ex-felon is bound to the same loss of rights as did a black man in Alabama during the Jim Crow times.
Work cited:
Dennis Moore. “BOOK REVIEW: THE NEW JIM CROW: MASS INCARCERATION IN THE AGE OF COLORBLINDNESS, IS AN ENLIGHTENING READ”. East County Magazine. 02/28/12
Amber Robbins
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English 5
February 26, 2012
Summary of Book Review: The New Jim Crow
The Book Review is written by Dennis Moore, as is informative and interesting. Moore uses quotes from the book as evidence to his premises, as well as connections to his own life, such as his son who is an “Honor Roll student” with a scholarship being brought into jail. The New Jim Crow is plentifully filled with statistics of injustices, such as the fact that there are twenty to fifty times higher rates of blacks being sent to prison for drug abusive, whereas there are statistics that show that young white males are more likely to use drugs. The review points out that it is important to understand the history of “Jim Crow” and goes on to explain, Jim Crow was the name of the “name of the racial caste system which operated primarily between 1877 and the mid-1960s.” This included separate facilities, (which usually meant much lower standards for African Americans), institutions, and ways of living. Alexander makes the argument that the “shame and stigma” of incarceration is more damaging to blacks than the Jim Crow era. Within the book there are not faceless people, these are real people whom the author of the review has actually met with regularly. This adds more valor to the book and makes it more reputable. Other topics such as affirmative action are also brought forth in the book. Overall, the review was very informational, detailed, and surprising in the amount of first hand knowledge that the author had with the subject matter and subjects of the book.
Work Cited
Moore, D. (2010, October 8). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, is an Enlightening Read [Review of the book The New Jim Crow]. East County Magazine. Retrieved from http://eastcountymagazine.org/node/4510
Daniela Debergue
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English 5
27 February 2012
Homework: New Jim Crow Book Review Summary
I found a summary of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness in the Seattle P-I Newspaper online. The review states that Alexander’s main argument in her book is that the modern day judicial system in America is subliminally reinstating the same segregation laws that were present during the Jim Crow era of the Civil Rights Movement by convicting a disproportionate number of black people. According to Alexander, what the government refers to as the “War On Drugs” is really an outlet for deep-seeded white supremacy in the American judicial system. The government is using the title of “criminal” in order to restrict previously convicted black people from mainstream society. Once out of prison, a black ex-con is faced with a huge amount of discrimination in terms of housing, employment, education, voting rights, etc. Since it is no longer legal to discriminate on the basis of race, the judicial system has found a new way to oppress black people. “The New Jim Crow” refers to the government convicting a disproportionate number of black people in order to forever label them as criminals and deny them basic rights, much like the Jim Crow laws did in the Civil Rights era.
The only disagreement in the soundness of Alexander’s argument by the author of the review is that she does not call out faith-based communities along with civil rights organizations when mentioning groups that can do more to speak out against the New Jim Crow. Although I haven’t read the book yet, I can agree that faith-based communities are very widespread and can have a huge influence on people’s points of view. They should also be responsible for calling out the unfairness associated with racial profiling in the penal system.
One interesting thing this book review taught me is that Michelle Alexander is a trained civil rights lawyer. I had no idea about that. I am interested to read about the legal logistics that are involved in this “New Jim Crow” era and how they are played out on a daily basis.
On a personal note, I really hope that this book isn’t just one that does a bunch of complaining and then offers no realistic solution to the problem it brings up. However, I won’t know what solution is offered until I read the book, so I better get to it ☺
Works Cited
Copeland, Phillip. “Book Review: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.” Rev. of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander. Seattle P-I 26 July 2011. Web.
Jesse Pinkney
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English 5
29 February 2012
Book Review: The New Jim Crow
Phillipe Copeland wrote a book review on The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander that was informative, motivational, and created a urgency to start reading this book about the mass incarceration in an age of colorblindness. Copeland starts the review by reflecting on what he knows about the Jim Crow era of the past. Recalling his memory he notes that he had no idea what he was up against after reading the works of Michelle Alexander in the New Jim Crow book. Alexander wrote, “The New Jim Crow is a system which law and custom perpetuates a largely African American racial caste locked at the bottom of the racial hierarchy.” Copeland says the author describes many different ways the system evolves as circumstances change to create an existential crisis and explained three major phases the process consist of for this racial caste. The first phase involves rounding up a vast number of people by the police in communities of color. The second phase is the conviction, where many don’t have the proper legal representation needed to defeat charges. The final phase begins when people are locked out of mainstream society, and live a life of discrimination in housing, employment, public assistance, and education to name a few. Alexander says that these invisible punishments are worst than the original Jim Crow laws. Toward the end of the book Alexander indicts the traditional civil rights organizations for failing to fight the abolition of the War on Drugs that is continuously separating families, dividing communities, and isolating people of color. Copeland discredits Alexander for not providing a similar critique on religious leadership that have stood around and not acted against these laws that are making criminals out of non-criminals. In conclusion the review was well informed and praised the author of the book for the in depth look at The New Jim Crow era. The reviewer only questions the author for not mentioning the faith community and ignoring the part they play in minority communities.
Work Cited:
Copelan, Phillipe. (2011 July 16).“Book Review: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age Of Colorblindness”:http://www.seattlepi.com
Jesse Pinkney
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English 5
6 March 2012
Book Review: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Phillipe Copeland wrote a book review on The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander that was informative, motivational, and created a urgency to start reading this book about the mass incarceration in an age of colorblindness. Copeland starts the review by reflecting on what he knows about the Jim Crow era of the past. Recalling his memory he notes that he had no idea what he was up against after reading the works of Michelle Alexander in the New Jim Crow book. Alexander wrote, “The New Jim Crow is a system which law and custom perpetuates a largely African American racial caste locked at the bottom of the racial hierarchy.” Copeland says the author describes many different ways the system evolves as circumstances change to create an existential crisis and explained three major phases the process consist of for this racial caste. The first phase involves rounding up a vast number of people by the police in communities of color. The second phase is the conviction, where many don’t have the proper legal representation needed to defeat charges. The final phase begins when people are locked out of mainstream society, and live a life of discrimination in housing, employment, public assistance, and education to name a few. Alexander says that these invisible punishments are worst than the original Jim Crow laws. Toward the end of the book Alexander indicts the traditional civil rights organizations for failing to fight the abolition of the War on Drugs that is continuously separating families, dividing communities, and isolating people of color. Copeland discredits Alexander for not providing a similar critique on religious leadership that have stood around and not acted against these laws that are making criminals out of non-criminals. In conclusion the review was well informed and praised the author of the book for the in depth look at The New Jim Crow era. The reviewer only questions the author for not mentioning the faith community and ignoring the part they play in minority communities.
Work Cited:
Copelan, Phillipe. “Book Review: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age Of Colorblindness”: Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://www.seattlepi.com
Ronald Parker
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English 5
3/6/12
Free-write: The New Jim Crow review
The review of The New Jim Crow by Dennis Moore if East County Magazine was one that truly showed the hard work of the author paying off, Michelle Alexander. An argument is brought up that many young colored men are convicted felons receiving harsh sentences not only from poor choices or mistakes. But these individuals are being put in the caste system, which is like pot holes in life just waiting for a car to roll over are fall in. the men who end up receiving these sentences are nothing but men who perpetuate the cycle. This piece of evidence reels in the reader in order to understand the subject underlying his review and Alexander's novel. He then goes on by sharing his own experiences as a father of a young black convicted felon who, at first glance, "had it all," as many would say because his son was a straight A student, a Syracuse university attendant on a scholarship who just happened to meet the wrong group of people. Moore then digs even deeper going back to the rights in the pre- civil war which show things that still exists today. This is just what people tell us all the time that history will always repeat itself. Might not be the same way but it will come back in some sort of shape or form. He also brought up the Civil Rights movement led by leaders such as Malcom X or Martin Luther King Jr and how things were segregated but a bit more equal. This shows that standing up for yourself is important because eventually they will have to listen. He ends by sharing how both sexes of colored people weren’t given the equal opportunity, but they were just as important or even more than the ones who received it.
Works Cited:
Moore, D. (2010, October 8). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, is an Enlightening Read [Review of the book The New Jim Crow]. East County Magazine. Retrieved from http://eastcountymagazine.org/node/4510
Jerald Appling
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English 5 Critical Thinking
March 9, 2012
A Negative Review of The New Jim Crow
Wake Forest University Professor E. Smith was not pleased with Michelle Alexander's book. He referred to her work as 'polemic' which, in my opinion, discounts her extensive research. There is one point where Professor Smith mistakenly suggests that Alexander has blamed the civil rights movement and its call for colorblindness as a culprit in clamping down on African Americans. While I will be the first to admit that I've only read 70 pages of the book, her introduction writing, thus far, has not implicated the civil rights movement at all. If anything, she has pointed out that Dr. Martin Luther King did not want us to ignore color but instead he wanted us to be at peace with our differences.
I chose this particular book review because every other review was in praise of "The New Jim Crow" and I was curious to search deeper into a review that didn't agree with Alexander's writings. Professor Smith concluded his review with the following: "...she does not come close to producing a scholarly text. The book's advertising promises more than it delivers. Summing Up: Not recommended." After the first 70 pages, I am happy to say that I disagree with Mr. Smith.
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Adalie Villalobos
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English 5 11-12:15pm
Jim Crow Power
The term Jim Crow is believed to have originated around 1830 when a white, minstrel show performer, Thomas "Daddy" Rice, blackened his face with charcoal paste or burnt cork and danced a ridiculous jig while singing the lyrics to the song, "Jump Jim Crow." Rice created this character after seeing (while traveling in the South) a crippled, elderly black man (or some say a young black boy) dancing and singing a song ending with these chorus words: "Weel about and turn about and do jis so, Eb'ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow."
Jim Crow laws are about power. Power of one race over another. These laws really highlight the flaws and weakness of human nature. One group of people asserting power over another for the pride and vanity of a system of politics that had been defeated at the cost of thousands of American lives during the civil war. The term "Jim Crow" has its origins of interest also. The interpretation was intended to ridicule the African American by white American's in the position of power. The Jim Crow laws were initiated after the civil war during the deconstruction of the new south and they help to create a racial caste system in the American South.
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These laws were protected by the constitution and were a form of constitutional racism. When the Supreme Court ruled on Plessy v. Ferguson the Federal Government legalized racism but under the guise of a doctrine referred to as "separate but equal". The Jim Crow laws were in place until the Supreme Court of 1954 threw them out with it's ruling on Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka. This court had a different opinion of equality. Soon after the Reconstruction, African Americans and whites Americans ate in the same restaurants, often rode toget. It is important to note that the Jim Crow laws were contrary to the laws of the Federal government that guaranteed civil rights to African Americans. The Jim Crow laws could not gain the necessary traction unless they received legislative support from the Supreme Court.
This support came via the case Plessy vs. Ferguson. In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that the Louisiana law that required separate but equal conditions for blacks and whites on trains was constitutional. This ruling made it legal to have segregation as long as the conditions were comparable.
The Jim Crow regime comprised a set of laws and norms for ethical behavior. The laws excluded blacks from public transport and facilities, juries, jobs, and neighborhoods. Some examples of laws are Libraries (the) state librarian is directed to fit up and maintain a separate place for the use of the colored people who may come to the library for the purpose of reading books or periodicals. North Carolina8. Then there were the laws against intermarriage Intermarriage The marriage of a white person with a negro or mulatto or person who shall have one-eighth or more of negro blood, shall be unlawful and void.