Homework Questions: Great Migration

Student’s Name:Professor’s Name:Course:Date:Homework QuestionsANSWER ONEThe Jim Crow era is synonymous with laws that discriminated against African Americans. These legislations were passed in Southern states as a way to maintain the racial separation that existed before slavery was outlawed. After being on the losing side of the Civil War, these states were eager to use their state sovereignty to maintain a system that favoured whites and discriminated against the formerly enslaved people. At first, the separation was limited to public amenities such as schools, healthcare facilities, and public transportation. With time, the segregation expanded to other areas such as cemeteries and restaurants. The Jim Crow laws were exceptionally harsh and had severe penalties for any individual who contravened them. Misdemeanors such as disturbing the peace were punishable by imprisonment.The Jim Crow era began with a court decisionIn 1877 the Supreme Court rejected an attempt to eliminate a federal law that prohibited segregation This federal rule later evolved in 1883 after a change by the Supreme Court from the segregation rule to a concept of “separate but equal” Several states implemented the separate but equal conceptThere were separate the public modes of transportation for blacks and