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.
Jim Crow laws were an official effort to keep African Americans separate from whites in the southern United States for many years.The laws were in place from the late 1870s until the civil rights movement began in the 1950s.The name Jim Crow comes from a once popular stage performance that began in 1828.im Crow laws were an official effort to keep African Americans separate from whites in the southern United States for many years.