- Collection:
- Encyclopedia of Alabama
- Title:
- Segregation (Jim Crow)
- Creator:
- Novkov, Julie
- Date of Original:
- 2007-07-23
- Subject:
- Segregation--Alabama
African Americans--Segregation--Alabama
African Americans--Alabama
Race discrimination--Alabama
Race relations
Alabama--Race relations--History--20th century
White supremacy movements--Alabama
African Americans--Violence against--Alabama
Civil rights movements--Alabama - Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
- Medium:
- articles
interactive resource - Description:
- Encyclopedia article about segregation, the legal and social system of separating citizens on the basis of race. The system maintained the repression of black citizens in Alabama and other southern states until it was dismantled during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s and by subsequent civil rights legislation. Segregation is usually understood as a legal system of control consisting of the denial of voting rights, the maintenance of separate schools, and other forms of separation between the races, but formal legal rules were only one part of the regime. Some historians list three other important elements contributing to the creation and reinforcement of the status quo: physical force and terror, economic intimidation, and psychological control exerted through messages of low worth and negativity transmitted socially to African American citizens.
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- http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1248
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