Historical-EY

From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows). From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white clientele separated. An example of segregation from another state was that nurses or any other white female, person or corporation couldn't nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro man are placed. (Alabama) Most of the racism was shown at schools.The schools for white children and the schools for "negro" children were teached separately. They were being discriminated because they were being seperated for any little reason.