Were the white population in the South affected by the Jim Crow Laws?
The allies of the Jim Crow Laws were obviously the white southern population of the United States. Popular white Southern democrats had cultivated the Jim Crow Laws, stripping the few rights blacks had. In other words, whites and blacks were completely prohibited from sharing anything. On the other hand, however, some whites were opposed to the Jim Crow Laws. They, eventually, would assist the black population in abolishing the Jim Crow laws at its downfall. For the time being, they spoke out against slavery. Sadly, however, usually their own race lynched them as well as blacks (Classroomhelp.com, 2013). A important character who supported the Jim Crow laws was Orval E. Faubus (1910-1994). He was Governor of Arkansas when the school district in Little Rock, Arkansas decided to integrate. He made it clear that he had no intention of allowing blacks to attend the same schools as whites, although during the governor campaigns he had tried integration. One especially famous incident where a white opposed to segregation was in the Spring of 1963. The governor of Alabama at the time, George C. Wallace, was preventing blacks from entering the University of Alabama (Galegroup.com, 2013). Wallace also spoke a fiery speech denouncing civil rights for blacks at the university. President John F. Kennedy angrily replied to Wallace's remarks in a television address opposed to segregation.