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Jim Crow Laws

Published on Nov 22, 2015

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JIM CROW LAWS

  • The Jim Crow Laws were laws about segregation.
  • For example,they seperated the blacks and whites by using signs.
  • The government enforced them.

WHERE DID "JIM CROW" COME FROM?

  • The term Jim Crow came from an old song and dance.
  • The name reffered to a black character in the song.
  • The man who made this was a performer white man named Thomas Rice.
  • He made himself look black using coal and danced to the song "Jump Jim Crow".

WHAT ARE THE JIM CROW LAWS?

  • They were signs that reffered to segregation between whites and blacks.
  • The Jim Crow Laws were established between 1874 and 1975.
  • The Jim Crow Laws started showing up after the Civil War.
  • The Jim Crow Laws showed up in a lot of states but had one purpose:
  • To segregate African Americans from white people.

EXAMPLES

  • An example of the Jim Crow Laws were the signs that were put up everywhere.
  • They said "white only" and "black only".
  • Some places where this occurred are railways,restaurants,bathrooms,hospitals,
  • Schools,public parks,and a lot more.
  • Some states that had the Jim Crow Laws were Alabama,Tennessee,Florida,and Kentucky.

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  • Places that were allowed for blacks weren't as good as the white places.
  • For example,the schools for blacks were small and didn't fit everyone in one classroom.
  • The black teachers weren't as educated as the white teachers so they didn't teach as well as them.
  • The white people would always get the better things and the black people would get the bad things.

FALL OF THE JIM CROW LAWS

  • The Jim Crow Laws ended partly by marches in Washington and other states.
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964,The Voting Rights Act of 1965,and The Fair Housing Act of 1968 also helped end the Jim Crow Laws.
  • There was also some major events that helped end the Jim Crow Laws,like the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

PROTESTS

  • There was some protests about the Jim Crow Laws:
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington.
  • Black people were also unable to vote becauss of the Jim Crow Laws.