JIM CROW LAWS

JIM CROW LAWS DEFINITION

• They mandated de jure racial segregation in all
• facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with
• starting in 1890, a "separate but equal.

JIM CROW LAWS EXAMPLES

• 1) Blacks were not allowed to use the same hearse as whites.
• 2) Commission shall have the right to make segregation of the white
• and colored races as to the exercise of rights of fishing, boating and bathing.
• 3) The baths and lockers for the Negroes shall
• be separate from the white race.

THE GREAT MIGRATION

• 1) African americans were being misused and ill treated,
• no one saw their great importance untill it was to late.
• 2) They were being paid almost dirt to do the most discusting,
• Jobs that no one else would do.

GREAT MIGRATION CONT.

• An african american defended his store and was lynched for it.
• When the press asked him about it he said, "there is no justice for my
• People here, we must go West or North."

GREAT MIGRATION FACTS

• The population in the south was 1/3 black.
• Over 8 million lived in the south doing despicable jobs.
• A little over 6 million left to go North for less racism and
• better job opportunities.