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 Equal Rights Amendment would require courts to apply the highest level of strict judicial review. As recently as 2010 Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia publicly stated that the 14th amendment does not prohibit against sex discrimination. year after the 14th amendmentâs passage, Myra Bradwell tried to apply it to womenâs rights. Bradwell, who graduated law school with honors and had passed the bar, challenged the Supreme Court of Illinoisâ decision prohibiting her from practicing law in the state.