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.
1868 the 14th amendment conferring citizenship was added to the Constitution. 1870 the 15th amendment barring racial discrimination in voting was added to the Constitution. Regardless of these amendments, from the 1880s into the 1960s many states enforced segregation through Jim Crow laws enacted by the states.3th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865) Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States.