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.
That law is the Northwest Ordinance, which was passed by the Congress of the Confederation of the United States 225 years ago today, on July 13, 1787.As mentioned above, the Ordinance helped establish the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and (in part), Minnesota.hat law is the Northwest Ordinance, which was passed by the Congress of the Confederation of the United States 225 years ago today, on July 13, 1787.