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EL LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE have called “Negro Law,” a system where the gravity of the crime was determined in large part by its impact on whites. a Many of the older white and black persons interviewed and/or interacted with during this investigation related the manner in which whites were to interact with blacks when problems arose. Ifa white person had a problem with a black person, the issue would be taken up with the black person's “and owner", the person who owned the fann where the black person, or that person’s family, sharecropped. The “land owner" would then take care of the problem by a number of means. These means included the paying off of debts and other non-violent solutions, but also included beatings, whippings and other uses of force. Much the same was done in the case of black on black crime/problems. The victim's "land owner" would take up the issue with the subject's "land owner" and the issue would be resolved. The black community had almost no recourse when dealing in problems with whites, especially crimes committed against blacks by whites. Only. in the most extreme circumstances did law enforcement become involved. | In addition to separating the races in public, Jim Crow laws were in place to enforce many other forms of segregation, including laws forbidding intermarriage of the races, cohabitation of the races, sexual conduct between persons of different races, and a system of separate schools for black and white children. The black school system and the white school system were drastically different. Funding and facilities were drastically disproportionate, with the black schools receiving far less than white schools and the black schools operating in substandard facilities. 7* Not all events and/or practices were segregated. White and black children played together while white and black adults hunted, fished and attended sporting events together. Movie theaters *" Let the People Decide, Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945 — 1986, J. Todd Moye, 2004, 5 to 7 ” Hugh Steven Whitaker, “A Case Study in Southern Justice — The Emmett Till Case”, (Master’s Thesis, Florida State University, 1963), 2 to 15 15 LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBE and is Joaned 10 your Ar agency. ik ariel its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency,