While the Jim Crow laws and the Apartheid in South Africa was enforced in different centuries they bare common resemblance as well as differences. During a time period where people were discriminated on based on their complexion. The Jim Crow laws (enforced from the 1880s - 1960s) existed throughout most of the United States, particularly in the southern states of the country. The discrimination between black and white people had caused the two races two be divided within the educational systems, the workforce, public transportation and in public areas both in the northern and southern parts of the United States, though northern states gave more lenancy to African Americans. This is where the famous “separate but equal” phrase originated from …show more content…
based on the fourteenth amendment (grants citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to african americans) Even though African Americans were free, and had their own educational systems and facilities, it was still a constant struggle for them to prosper as a race.
Their schools were vandalized by mobs of angry white men, innocent African American families were tortured and murdered by members of the Klu Klux Klan. The Klu Klux Klan started in 1865 by a group of underground confederate veterans.
With all the hate and segregation growing in the United States, the African American community began to develop a form of leadership to oppose the laws. People like IDa B. Wells began speaking up on segregation in schools and sexual harassment. A famous group known as the NAACP began taking action into their own hands by ensuring political, educational, economic and social equality for all people. The civil rights movement resulted in the removal of the Jim Crow law. President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, legally ending discrimination and segregation that the Jim Crow laws had enforced.
Just like the Jim Crow laws, Apartheid in South Africa, another political and social system created to divide whites from blacks. This system was created by an all-white government. South Africa had become segregated, just like the United States. Anyone who was not white and living in South Africa was forced to live in separate neighborhoods and forced to use separate public facilities. This segregated system lasted from 1948 to 1994 (50
years). The famous 1913 Land Act had came into effect after South Africa gained its independence. This began the segregation that forced black people to live in reserves. This Act made it illegal for black Africans to work as sharecroppers, making it hard for them to have a steady income and provide for their families. The Land Law act went as far to ban marriages between white and people of other racial backgrounds. To combat the way the Land Law had forced the people of South Africa to live a group of resistance formed together to retaliate. The South African National Native Congress was formed in opposition to the Land Act. There had been many peaceful protests, strikes and armed resistance the ANC has been apart of in efforts to fight for equality. Nelson Mandela led the ANC ( African National Congress) when he was imprisoned it triggered an international attention, this was the spark that helped bring in support to destroying the Apartheid. A new constitution came into effect in 1994, ending the apartheid system. There was a new government with a more diverse group of people, ending the white majority rule. After years of being oppressed and fighting segregation both Jim Crow laws and the Apartheid were demolished. Both laws kept blacks from prospering and being successful in each country. Different methods to segregate was used, but fortunately both countries had the same outcome. Both laws were repealed because of strong black communities that stood strong to fight against their oppressors.
In 1865 4 million people were freed and let out on their own for the first time ever. They weren’t really sure what to do at this time but they had to find a way because they were now by themselves in a world that didn’t accept them. There were 3 Amendments made to the US Constitution that freed these slaves and put the African Americans in the country in such a bad situation. These Amendments and the actions by the president and his appointed boards were unsuccessful due to the racist laws and resistance against the American Reconstruction. Some of these laws include the Jim Crow Laws and some of these racist people congregated in a group called the Klu Klux Klan.
Jim Crow laws were a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century beginning in the 1890s. (Jim Crow Laws, PBS). Jim Crow laws had the same ideals that slave codes had. At this time slavery had been abolished, but because of Jim Crow, the newly freed black people were still looked at as inferior. One of the similarities between slave codes and Jim Crow laws was that both sets of laws did not allow equal education opportunities. The schools were separated, of course, which cause the white schools to be richer and more advanced in education than black schools. This relates to slave codes because slaves were not allowed to read which hindered their learning of when they were able to read and write. Another similarity is alcohol. In the Jim Crow era persons who sold beer or wine were not allowed to serve both white and colored people, so they had to sell to either one or the other. This is similar to slave codes because in most states slaves were not allowed to purchase whiskey at all, unless they had permission from their owners. Slaves did not eat with their white owners. In the Jim Crow era whites and blacks could not eat together at all, and if there was some odd circumstance that whites and blacks did eat together then the white person was served first and there was usually something in between them. This relates to slave codes because
“ Sirens blared, voices screamed and shouted, wood cracked and windows shattered, children bawled, dogs barked and footsteps pounded”(7). This scene is from the autobiography Kaffir Boy written by Mark Mathabane. That is one of the scenes he had to live through every morning in apartheid South Africa. Apartheid is a policy of segregation and economic discrimination against non-whites. Apartheid system affected every black person living in South Africa during that time. It forced blacks to become slaves in their own country. The system forced blacks to live in unsanitary environments, work-degrading jobs and carry passes, and receive limited education. Blacks and whites were living in different sections during apartheid.
First off there was the Ku Klux Klan better known as the KKK. This was a group of people who wore robes and masks. They pretended to be the ghosts of confederate soldiers. These people were scared of changes and the rising rights of African Americans. This was also in the north not just the south. Poverty was a big thing after reconstruction. It was a problem before reconstruction but it got bigger after. Poverty was a global issue in the south where a lot of white southerners had lost their land. This caused them to be trapped in a little poverty cycle. African Americans had little job
“The ‘Jim Crow’ laws got their name from one of the stock characters in the minstrel shows that were a mainstay of popular entertainment throughout the nineteenth century. Such shows popularized and reinforced the pervasive stereotypes of blacks as lazy, stupid, somehow less human, and inferior to whites” (Annenberg, 2014). These laws exalted the superiority of the whites over the blacks. Although equally created, and affirmed by the Supreme Court, and because of the Civil War officially free, African Americans were still treated with less respect than many household pets. The notorious Jim Crow laws mandated segregation and provided for severe legal retribution for consortium between races (National, 2014). Richard Wright writes about this, his life.
Activists like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led marches and speeches that addressed this unfair racial discrimination. Additionally, violence against African Americans in Southern states increased. Therefore, the President at that time, Lyndon B. Johnson, saw this as a national problem and signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was originally for Southern states and only for five years, but it eventually got renewed.
The Jim Crow system in the United States compared to the apartheid system in South Africa were very similar to each other. The Jim Crow system was just another way for white people to control the blacks. Blacks were no longer in slavery but were dependent on their former owners because they were not given any resources to start a new life on their own. The Jim Crow system is when segregation between blacks and whites legally began; it was as if they were in two separate worlds for two different types of human beings. The Jim Crow laws required separate but equal opportunities for the black people. The black people were not allowed to use the same facilities as the whites; the bathrooms were separate, the drinking fountains, their designated
Although the 13th Amendment ended slavery, it did not solve the problem of unjust treatment towards African Americans. “Jim Crow Laws were laws in the South based on race. They enforced segregation between white people and black people in public places such as schools, transportation, restrooms, and restaurants. They also made it difficult for black people to vote” (“Civil Rights for Kids”). These laws promoted the idea of “separate but equal”. “The name "Jim Crow" comes from an African-American character in a song from 1832. After the song came out, the term "Jim Crow" was often used to refer to African-Americans and soon the segregation laws became known as "Jim Crow" Laws” (“Civil Rights for Kids”). These laws created segregation and made white Americans superior to all other races. The laws were in place for 77 years, but the harsh effects lasted for many years to come.
The laws known as “Jim Crow” were laws presented to basically establish racial apartheid in the United States. These laws were more than in effect for “for three centuries of a century beginning in the 1800s” according to a Jim Crow Law article on PBS. Many try to say these laws didn’t have that big of an effect on African American lives but in affected almost everything in their daily life from segregation of things: such as schools, parks, restrooms, libraries, bus seatings, and also restaurants. The government got away with this because of the legal theory “separate but equal” but none of the blacks establishments were to the same standards of the whites. Signs that read “Whites Only” and “Colored” were seen at places all arounds cities.
The NAACP was created to oppose racism, and work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation. With their involvement in national issues, this organization advocated for nonviolence, especially with their court cases, and involvement in legislation fighting for equality and desegregation. For example, in 1954, the Supreme Court declared that the segregation of public schools and facilities was unconstitutional in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. They discovered this with the help of the NAACP. In 1955, the Court ordered the desegregation of public schools, though it did not set a deadline for this process. Three years after Brown, nearly all southern schools remained segregated. But this didn’t stop the NAACP to fight even more through legislation, instead they decided to push the federal government to enforce the 1955 Supreme Court order to desegregate public schools. To do this they decided to focus on the all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. So, in September 1957, nine black teenagers enrolled in Central High School. Angry mobs, encouraged by the Arkansas governor Orval Faubus defiance of the federal government, surrounded and threatened the students. Ultimately, President Dwight Eisenhower reluctantly ordered
In 1948, South Africa passed a monumental law that would shape the nation for decades to come. This would be known as apartheid. The apartheid was a racially-motivated law that separated the white South Africans from the black, brown or mixed South African in the country. The word is Afrikaans for "the state of being apart". A literal translation meaning "apart-hood". This meant that everything in South Africa
South Africa really began to suffer when apartheid was written into the law. Apartheid was first introduced in the 1948 election that the Afrikaner National Party won. The plan was to take the already existing segregation and expand it (Wright, 60). Apartheid was a system that segregated South Africa’s population racially and considered non-whites inferior (“History of South Africa in the apartheid era”). Apartheid was designed to make it legal for Europeans to dominate economics and politics (“History of South Africa in the apartheid era”).
As the title infers this essay is an explanation of the event of Apartheid and Separate Development, but to understand this fully some brief history on Apartheid is required, hence this paragraph will be the introduction to the events that transpired before the formation of Separate Development. The idea of Apartheid was born because of the fact that white supremacy was already instituted into South African policy because of the strong European influence. The Land Act of 1913 was what instigated the momentum of Apartheid however. It forced the Africans to live on plots of land that were undesirable and less than twenty percent of the total land even though they were clearly the majority, where the eighty percent was given to the white minority. Eventually restrictions became worse such as, forcing the Africans to carry identity documents authorizing their occurrence in areas that were otherwise restricted, not allowing non-whites to obtain certain jobs, not allowing any contact between whites and non-whites, and eventually forbidding participation by non-whites in government. The paragraphs that follow will outline the emergence of Separate Development, who was responsible, what Separate Development is, and why it happened.
The apartheid was a very traumatic time for blacks in South Africa. Apartheid is the act of literally separating the races, whites and non-whites, and in 1948 the apartheid was now legal, and government enforced. The South African police began forcing relocations for black South Africans into tribal lines, which decreased their political influence and created white supremacy. After relocating the black South Africans, this gave whites around eighty percent of the land within South Africa. Jonathan Jansen, and Nick Taylor state “The population is roughly 78 percent black, 10 percent white, 9 percent colored, and l...
Even more prevalent in South Africa is the never-ending racism. Apartheid, the Afrikaans word meaning separateness, brought legislated segregation to the secluded country. For nearly 50 years, black South Africans dealt with suppression by powerful white South Africans. After being abolished in 1994, black South Africans felt the