re: Why did racism pick up speed in the 50's?

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This isn’t entirely true. They wanted the legal opportunity to do so. But they weren’t exactly thrilled as a group to be sent into white schools either at the time

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you have literally no knowledge of the south

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Are you serious with this comment? Do you not consider institutionalized and codified segregation to be racist?

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I'm sure there were still racists but it wasn't as popular I guess?

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don't have any knowledge between 1870 and 1940. That's what I'm asking about.

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The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American.[1] Such laws remained in force until 1965.[2] Formal and informal segregation policies were present in other areas of the United States as well, even as several states outside the South had banned discrimination in public accommodations and voting.[3][4] Southern laws were enacted by white-dominated state legislatures (see "Redeemers") to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by African Americans during the Reconstruction era.[5] Such continuing racial segregation was also supported by the successful Lily-White Movement.[6]

In practice, Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s. Jim Crow laws were upheld in 1896 in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson, in which the Supreme Court laid out its "separate but equal" legal doctrine concerning facilities for African Americans. Moreover, public education had essentially been segregated since its establishment in most of the South after the Civil War in 1861–1865. Companion laws excluded almost all African Americans from the vote in the South and deprived them of any representative government.

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The fight for resources. With resources being finite, politicians fearmongered that blacks would consume too many resources, leaving very little for whites. An enemy and fear had to be created so those type of politicians could stay in office, bilk the public for millions, and grow fat from corporate kick backs and slush funds. Also, the sheer competition in public space caused jealousy. Many whites felt that blacks would take what's theirs.

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It’s just more subtle now.

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he civil war ended some time in the 1860s. You never really hear much about racism until the 1950s

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Was there a moment that made things kick off in the south with separate water fountains and bathrooms or had that been going on the whole time and it just took until the 50s for black people to get fed up?

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