Eventually the Government Deemed Europeans and Mexicans as White and Jim Crow Laws Concentrated on Blacks
Once 1930 hit Europeans were classified as white and Mexicans protested to earn the same classification. This change left Blacks as the only ones to be targeted by Jim Crow laws and the “consequences of being labeled as Black deepened,” according to the report by Harvard University’s Jennifer L. Hochschild and University of Virginia’s Vesla Mae Weaver. Jim Crow laws essentially kept Blacks from being able to be a part of the political process and thus made it nearly impossible for them to climb out of poverty. It was only a matter of time that the inferior status that was placed upon Blacks led to “subordinate economic and political status” as well.
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