NPC notes

Jim Crow’s popularity as a fictional character eventually died out, but in the late 19th century the phrase found new life as a blanket term for a wave of anti-black laws laid down after Reconstruction. Some of the most common laws included restrictions on voting rights—many Southern states required literacy tests or limited suffrage to those whose grandfathers had also had the right to vote—bans on interracial relationships and clauses that allowed businesses to separate their black and white clientele. The segregationist philosophy of “separate but equal” was later upheld in the famous 1896 Supreme Court decision “Plessy vs. Ferguson,” in which the Court ruled that the state of Louisiana had the right to require different railroad cars for blacks and whites. The “Plessy” decision would eventually lead to widespread adoption of segregated restaurants, public bathrooms, water fountains and other facilities. “Separate but equal” was eventually overturned in the 1954 Supreme Court Case “Brown vs. Board of Education,” but Jim Crow’s legacy would continue to endure in some Southern states until the 1970s.https://www.history.com/news/was-jim-crow-a-real-person 

State specific Map of discrimination history (eg, California's discrimination of the Chinese)

Yeahbutt...

It's tons easier to just google stuff than it is for me to carefully parrot what I just read...and I'm stifling the flippant quotes in my head, so this might sound desultory and dead.

I'll assume your google-skills are as good as mine or better.

You don't need me telling you what to read (like, you've already used filters to winnow the truth from years of "liberal falsehoods" anyway, so a term-paper type blog this is not, nor will it ever be)

And I can't really write my train of thought, but here's a hint,

Discrimination comes in many colors.

There's a rich multifaceted history about it (here in the US) if you'd only care to read about it.

There probably aren't enough months in the year to commemorate the history of some race...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/nyregion/asian-hate-crimes-attacks-ny.html

I'm getting writer's block, I'll come back later. My terrible memory can't hold a train at the station for long, it flies off and comes back in a few hours, and maybe I'll write more.

Probably not.