OUR COMMON GROUND ::: Evil Well Financed and Determined: Jim Crow Under Law"
\u201cEvil Well Financed and Determined: Jim Crow Under Law"\n\nDisenfranchisement Laws aka "Jim Crow\n\nOCG Hosts, Janice Graham & Dr. James L. Taylor\n\nJim Crow\u201d was developed as a derisive slang term for a Black man. It came to mean any state law passed in the South that established different rules for blacks and whites. Jim Crow laws were based on the theory of white supremacy and were a reaction to Reconstruction. In the depression-racked 1890s, racism appealed to whites who feared losing their jobs to Blacks.\n\nPoliticians abused Blacks to win the votes of poor white \u201ccrackers.\u201d Newspapers fed the bias of white readers by playing up (sometimes even making up) Black crimes and reporting based on Black stereotypes.\n\n"Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time"\n\nTo support\xa0OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.\xa0Follow us on FB\xa0and Twitter #JaniceOCG\n\nJoin\xa0 our Exchange Community