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.
The Jim Crow system of legal segregation, which relegated blacks to a status of social, political, and economic subservience, was enforced through the violence of lynching; more than 3,000 African-Americans were lynched between the 1880s and 1940s, and millions more lived in constant terror of the noose.