1900-1920

Jim Crow were a set of laws that seperated the blacks and the whites in public places. They rules were set primarily in the south but not exclusively. the rules restricted blacks from using the white bathrooms, restaurants, and any other place that it would be seen that blacks and whitets were mixing. The segregation was de jure meaning that it was inacted though a fixed set of laws. The laws may differ slightly from town to town but the single mindset of the southern american white male was that blacks could in no case come near the whites. However not all whites enacted the ideals of Jim Crow. Those that didnt though, were heavily scrutinized and many of the whites within the town would turn against them. The blacks were thought to be unclean and filthy and in all cases inferior to the white american, even though the adopted slogan was "seperate but equal." Quickly the blacks became tired of the treatment that they recieved, and started forming groups. These early groups eventually gave rise to what we know today as the Civil Rights Movement.