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Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow Laws. Mariah Roat english 1A Wakefield October 8,2009. what where Jim Crow Laws. After the trials of Plessey Vs. Ferguson southern states pass laws that where made to repress blacks new freedom. these laws where know as the Jim Crow Laws. Restirtions.

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Jim Crow Laws

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  1. Jim Crow Laws • Mariah Roat • english 1A • Wakefield • October 8,2009

  2. what where Jim Crow Laws • After the trials of Plessey Vs. Ferguson southern states pass laws that where made to repress blacks new freedom. these laws where know as the Jim Crow Laws.

  3. Restirtions • these laws took away blacks access to schools, restaurants, hospitals and other public places. • sings where put up that said whits only or colored. • these laws restricted all parts of blacks life.

  4. Education • many laws where passed to keep blacks from having a good education. • whites and blacks where not allowed to go to the same school/ class room, and could not use the same books. • blacks received poor guilty materials and black teachers where underpaid.

  5. Transportation • blacks had to use a separate ticket booth than whites, and even had to wait in anther room for their ride. • blacks where forced to sit in the back of the bus in their own “section”.

  6. how the south did it • the way the south got away with this was because they called it separate but equal. • In the 1960’s Jim crows laws where abolished.

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