Jim Crow Museum

The Jim crow museum depicts very accurately how racist southern america used to be. It is astonishing how much hatred people can have for something as messily as the color of someone's skin. Jim Crow was developed as a fictitious character that heavily embellished the negro culture with much mockery. Jim crow became the symbol of how blacks should be treated hence the Jim Crow Laws that were developed. Whites would paint their faces black and perform on stage as bafoons. These shows helped paint the idea that African Americans were inferior and should be treated differently. The websites tells of how racism was being acted out and the propaganda that was used.

The website states that whites had a fear of black men raping white women, or so they portrayed, so many blacks were killed for crimes that they didn’t even do. They would lynch them in a grutesk manner out of this so called fear of rape. I believe that the issue was made up just so blacks could be singled out. The Ku Klux Klan was a group that had over 2 million members in the 1920s that aimed most of their destructiveness towards blacks, but also hated Jews, Christians and immigrants. The KKK pretty much lead the was in racism. They were the worst of the worst and have the track record to show it. The imaginary of the website is very detailed and goes further to tell the average person how people saw racism everyday. During the time of Jim Crow Laws, there was mockery such as the Coon Chicken Inn which the entrance was a goofy looking black man, almost a monkey wearing a porters hat. Aunt Jeminma syrup was sold as a spoof and marketed very racist. Racist law pieces such as the lawn jockey were semi common in that era. There was also racist cartoons and games where as blacks were depicted as creatures not humans shown by the museum’s website, amongst other things that are hard to look at. Blacks were mocked more that any other race by a far margin. In no way did they