The Jim Crow Battle Against Black History

By Dr. John E. Warren Publisher, The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint

e current battle to remove books and any discussion about slavery and the treatment of Blacks is not new. is is what we call “Jim Crow”, now presenting himself as “James Q. Esquire”, the legislator. For those who might have forgotten, Jim Crow was o en the name used to describe segregation; laws, customs, and rules that arose in the South after Reconstruction ended in 1877. “Reconstruction” is what e orts to rebuild the South were called a er the Civil War. It was an e ort to put the South back together, economically, without the bene t of slavery, which had been its most precious product.

Newly freed slaves were finding ways to buy land, start farms, run for o ce as was the case. During Reconstruction 16 African Americans served in the U.S. Congress, more than 600 were elected to the state legislatures, and hundreds more held local o ces across the South. White Southerners were not pleased with either the independence of Blacks nor their e orts to own land, get educated and achieve, at the very least, equal status with Whites.