Definition of suppression. 1 : an act or instance of suppressing : the state of being suppressed.
When most people think of Jim Crow they think of laws (not the Jim Crow etiquette) which excluded blacks from public transport and facilities, juries, jobs, and neighborhoods. The passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution had granted blacks the same legal protections as whites.im Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s.
Worse, denial of their rights and freedoms would be made legal by a series of racist statutes, the Jim Crow laws. âJim Crowâ was 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.orse, denial of their rights and freedoms would be made legal by a series of racist statutes, the Jim Crow laws. âJim Crowâ was 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.