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Jim crow in nazi germany
their white counterparts. For instance, public restrooms designated for black people were filthy and compared to outhouses and the black entrances to public establishments were usually in the back or in the alleyway. Once public transportation was introduced in the 1920s, the designated seating for black passengers was located in the rear of the bus, which was usually excruciatingly hot, crowded, and filled with exhaust fumes. Later, a report published by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1919 titled Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States: 1889-1918 documented the lynching of 2,522 black Americans during 1889 to 1918. Lynching was the most brutal form of racist hate crimes, which involved hanging, burning alive, or hacking. Lynching and other racist crimes were tactics used in order to control black communities and their sympathizers. The victims of these racist activities were wrongly accused of minor offenses to white people, like stealing a cow, attempting to register to vote, and speaking out against inequality. The major offenses black victims were accused of consisted of sexually assaulting a white woman or talking back to a white person.9
During the period of racial discrimination against Jews in Germany and black people in America, black American athletes debated on the decision to attend the 1936 Olympic Games. Adolf Hitler saw the Olympics as an opportunity to demonstrate the superiority of the Aryan race. Many countries questioned the morality of supporting the Olympic Games hosted by the Nazi regime. Black Americans faced racism at home and had to ultimately decide on representing the United States in a country dominated by a racist dictatorship. Due to this, black U.S. athletes were
9 N.A., “Jim Crow Laws,” Gale.
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