Jim Crow Laws In The 1930's

In the 1930’s, African Americans were second-class citizens in every aspect of their life. Not only were they not allowed certain freedoms, like voting, but there were laws to prevent them from being on the same level as white people living around them. These Jim Crow laws, named after a television show making fun of blacks, demanded segregated areas. Prejudice against someone is in human nature, but it should not be in a public system.

In the world of the 1930’s, many African Americans did not have much say in anything, let alone politics. However, some people fought for the treatment of blacks to change. Consequently, in April 1937, an Anti-lynching bill was passed and repealed in a matter of weeks. This was the cause of a six-week long filibuster, which is an action, such as a prolonged speech that hinders progress in a legislative assembly, by the South. (Race in the 1930’s) “This bitter, political fight was indicative of the racism and regional conflict still firmly entrenched in America”, said President Truman. Therefore, any political movements made by African Americans were weak, divided, and incapable of making an effective challenge to racism and segregation. What

The majority of blacks lived in the South with white superiority and slave culture remembered warmly. (Race Relations Between the Wars) These states made laws called Jim Crow laws to keep the races segregated. Almost all public areas, such as transport waiting rooms and facilities, were segregated. Any privately owned businesses were required to provide separate rooms for whites and other races. The laws required that education for blacks be equal to those provided for whites, but this was not the case. Blacks were less than adequately educated and were limited to jobs that whites refused. Not only was it viewed as unacceptable to be with a person of African descent, but it was also illegal in many