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Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow Laws. By: Donovan A. Watts. Events that led to Jim Crow Laws. Reconstruction period of 1865-1877 Jim Crow Laws started because the states took away African-Americans rights Between 1870 and 1871 Congress passed the enforcement act law

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Jim Crow Laws

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  1. Jim Crow Laws By: Donovan A. Watts

  2. Events that led to Jim Crow Laws • Reconstruction period of 1865-1877 • Jim Crow Laws started because the states took away African-Americans rights • Between 1870 and 1871 Congress passed the enforcement act law • After the civil war most states in the south passed anti-African American Laws

  3. Constituional issues of Jim Crow Laws • African-Americans were basically stripped of their rights • They had “separate but equal” meaning that African Americans had to use different things from White Americans

  4. Continued • Africans-Americans weren't able to vote. • Required the segregation of races in common areas

  5. Result of Jim Crow Laws • Irene Morgan V. Virginia ruled segregation In interstate unconstitutional. • In Brown V. Board of education the court held that separate facilities were inherently unequal in public places.

  6. Continued • President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. • The Voting Act of 1965 ended legally sanctioned state barriers for voting for all federal, state, and local elections

  7. Effect in the Constitution • Important to know because it started the segregation between African-Americans and White Americans • “Separate But Equal”

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