“In 1883, the Supreme Court declared the Civil Rights Act of 1876 unconstitutional.”

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Systematically, the gains made towards a more equal society during Reconstruction were dismantled and replaced by a new system of injustice.”

“The principle of “separate but equal,” America’s legal justification for domestic apart-heid, was ordained by the Supreme Court in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896.

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“The Jim Crow system of racial exploitation was, like slavery, both a caste/social order for regimenting cultural and politi-cal relations, and an economic structure that facilitated the super-exploitation of blacks’ labor power.”

“Jim Crow laws meant the institutional segregation of all public and private facilities and access to employment and housing opportunities and resources.

“Jim Crow laws meant the institutional segregation of all public and private facilities and access to employment and housing opportuni-ties and resources.

“However, though facilities, schools, entrances to public transportation, housing, and social spaces remained separate, they were never of equal quality. In this system, access and quality were always substandard for people of color.”

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“In 1964, President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, man-aged to per-suade Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act. This made racial discrimination in public places, such as theaters, restaurants and hotels, illegal.”

This book is made to reveal the macrocosm that echoes the microcosm in regards to racial signage. It compares the simple text of a sign to images that resemble the meaning of the text. Although the images are small I hope you will take the time to notice them in each image.

Edited by Hunter Murphy

Quotes from Amistad Digital Resources: Jim Crow Laws Part 1.