Jim Crow

There isn't actually a real Jim Crow it was a made up term to represent the policy of segregation. A Jim Crow law was a law that specifically applied to people of color. For example, whether a black man could sit in the front row of a bus would be considered a Jim Crow law. Jim Crow was thought up because so many people had a belief in white supremacy. Not all whites were behind the Jim Crow movement. A newspaper from Charleston, South Carolina said, "The common sense and proper arrangement, in our opinion, is to provide first-class cars for first-class passengers, white and colored....To speak plainly, we need, as everybody knows, separate cars or apartments for rowdy or drunken white passengers far more than Jim Crow cars for colored passengers." There was a lot of conflict on whether Jim Crow laws were constitutional or unconstitutional, I am inclined to think that they were unconstitutional.