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Jim Crow Laws and Etiquette

Jim Crow Laws and Etiquette. What Are Jim Crow Laws?.

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Jim Crow Laws and Etiquette

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  1. Jim Crow Laws and Etiquette

  2. What Are Jim Crow Laws? • Jim Crow laws were Primarily in southern states and active 1877- mid 1950’s. The laws also imposed on Latin Americans. Crow Laws and Etiquette were laws which segregated “the colored people” with the white people and created two separate societies a black society and a white society. Jim Crow laws took basic rights and privileges away; there were separate washrooms, public transit, hospitals and schools.

  3. Why did Jim Crow Laws start? • Christian minister preached that whites were chosen by God to be economic leaders and black people were inferior, even that God supported racial segregation. They also believed that blacks in all ways, including to intelligence, morality, and civilized behavior were inferior. Slavery was abolished before Jim Crow laws were instated there were a (vocal) majority that believed black people deserved less rights and were second-grade citizens.

  4. What was the Jim Crow Etiquette? Blacks were to introduce themselves to a white person EX. Hey there I’m Tate (black), How’s it going Mr. Johnson (white) Whites were to refer to blacks in their first name, blacks referred to whites with courtesy titles EX. Mr. Mrs. Ms. Sir. 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments (prohibits slavery, declares citizenship and voting rights) to the Constitution had granted blacks the same legal protections as whites until Rutherford B. Hayes restricted laws which protected and liberated blacks.

  5. The Red Summer • “The Red Summer” was the summer of 1919, there were race riots dozen of cities across the United Sates including Chicago, Illinois, Knoxville and Nashville, Tennessee. In that year seventy-seven black people were killed in lynchings. Fourteen were publicly burned and eleven of them were burned alive. • James Weldon Johnson was a social activist and a social scientist, who wrote “The Red Summer” which goes into detail on the lynches, murders, and fights which the blacks had fight to put a stop to the Jim Crow Law and Etiquettes.

  6. The Abolition of Jim Crow Laws • The start of the abolition of Jim Crow laws was when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional in 1954. The laws were completely abolished on a Federal level in the 1960’s. Although there were many states that still segregated coloured people.

  7. Jim Crow Bylaws • Many states have different bylaws and regulations for “colored people.” • Schools for white and black children are to be separated. (Florida) • Whites and blacks cannot play checkers or dominoes with each other. (Birmingham, Alabama 1930) • In prisons white convicts are to have separate houses for both eating and sleeping. (Mississippi)

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