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Throughout the 20th Century, racial discrimination was deliberate and intentional. Today, racial segregation and division result from policies and institutions that are no longer explicitly designed to discriminate. Yet the outcomes of those policies and beliefs have negative, racial impacts, namely with segregation. [160]
When at the end of the 19th century American legislatures passed laws of racial segregation directed against blacks, these statutes became known as the Jim Crow laws. [3] The museum demonstrates how racist ideas and anti-black images were pervasive within American culture.
After the American Civil War ended, the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits slavery (except as punishment for crime), was passed in 1865. In the mid-20th century, the civil rights movement occurred, and legalized racial segregation and discrimination was thus outlawed.
This law allowed the segregation of races in all municipal, parish, and state prisons. 1921: Education This law called for separate public schools for the education of white and black children between the ages of six and eighteen. 1921: Housing This prohibited African American and white families from living in the same home. 1928: Education
De jure segregation was formally outlawed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, while de facto segregation continues today in such closely related areas as residential segregation and school segregation because of both contemporary behavior and the historical legacy of de jure segregation.
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An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. New York: Harper and Row, 1944. Newby, I.A. Jim Crow's Defense: Anti-Negro Thought in America, 1900–1930. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1965. Oshinsky, David M. (1996). Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. New York: Free Press.
From 1909 until 1965, the Blackwell School was a segregated school for children of Mexican descent in Marfa, Texas.