Modern Day Jim Crow Laws in American Politics

Running head: AMERICAN POLITICS
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The respective paper studies about the modern day Jim Crow laws which are an integral
part of American politics as well as the neo political arena of America in the modern era of
twenty first century. The paper focuses on the new trends of franchise and universal suffrage by
highlighting the fact that the trend of voting has been subsequently reduced in America.
However, in order to remain out of disenfranchisement, there has been subsequent actions and
movement happening all over America. Therefore, the respective paper focuses on such issues.
Jim Crow laws are the laws laid by American government in the states as well as in local
basis that propagated and enforced racial segregation throughout the Southern United States
(Tischauser). The Jim Crow laws were enacted and operated in the late 19th and the early 20th
century by the White dominated democratic state legislature after the Reconstruction period of
America. The Reconstruction period of America has been marked as one of the most prolific
period of America when the nation witnessed the majestic Civil Rights Movement which
heralded a racism-free America. However, the concept of Jim Crow laws in the new America
after the civil rights movement echoed the hypocritical and double standard mentality among the
Americans which stated that the minorities and blacks were “separate, but equal” which,
however, despite being reformed, posed trouble for the African Americans, Native Americans
and other ethnical and racial minorities of the nation. The neo-traditional legal and political
principles of “separate, but equal” mindset were propagated among the public as the principles
were extended to public facilities and transportation including the coaches of interstate trains and
other conveyance. Through various ways, Jim Crow laws institutionalized economic, educational
and social disadvantages of the blacks and minorities throughout the nation. The new America,
with the arrival of Donald Trump from the Republican Party in power as the president of the
nation, has posed several racist, anti-immigrant and misogynistic laws, rules and regulations