1891 African-American newspaper JIM CROW racial SEGREGATION in TEXAS & ARKANSAS

1891 African-American newspaper JIM CROW racial SEGREGATION in TEXAS & ARKANSAS. Rare 1891 African-American newspaper with JIM CROW ERA racial SEGREGATION in TEXAS & ARKANSAS.

SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL African-American published NEWSPAPER, the. Newspaper is the earliest illustrated nationally distributed African-American newspaper ever published. Its news, ads and editorial content is highly focused on topics of interest to NEGR0 AMERICANS and its masthead contains the slogan: "A National Illustrated Colored Newspaper". This issue contains a front page heading and 1/2 column long detailed report of. JIM CROW ERA racial segregation (in this case on railway cars) in TEXAS and ARKANSAS. This also contains front page printing (2 columns of text) of a speech given at the INDIANA STATE FAIRGROUNDS on the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION and how it is viewed by African-Americans at this time in 1891, 133 years ago. This issue contains news, sports, ads, editorials and coverage of interest to African-Americans that the "main stream" media (read "White media") failed to cover in this era of JIM CROW racial segregation.

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. Such laws remained in force until 1965.

Formal and informal segregation policies were present in other areas of the United States as well, even as several states outside the South had banned discrimination in public accommodations and voting. Southern laws were enacted by white-dominated state legislatures (see "Redeemers") to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by African Americans during the Reconstruction era.

Such continuing racial segregation was also supported by the successful Lily-white movement. In practice, Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s. Jim Crow laws were upheld in 1896 in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the Supreme Court laid out its "separate but equal" legal doctrine concerning facilities for African Americans. Companion laws excluded almost all African Americans from the vote in the South and deprived them of any representative government. Although in theory, the "equal" segregation doctrine governed public facilities and transportation too, facilities for African Americans were consistently inferior and underfunded compared to facilities for white Americans; sometimes, there were no facilities for the black community at all. Far from equality, as a body of law, Jim Crow institutionalized economic, educational, political and social disadvantages and second class citizenship for most African Americans living in the United States.

After the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909, it became involved in a sustained public protest and campaigns against the Jim Crow laws, and the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine. In 1954, segregation of public schools (state-sponsored) was declared unconstitutional by the U. Supreme Court in the landmark case Brown v.

Board of Education of Topeka. In some states, it took many years to implement this decision, while the Warren Court continued to rule against Jim Crow legislation in other cases such as Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. In general, the remaining Jim Crow laws were overturned by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper, NOT just a clipping or a page of it.

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