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Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow Laws. Caryn Hernandez Karen Harriger Fernanda Navarro. The word “Jim Crow” is from the minstrel show song “Jump Jim Crow.” Written in 1829 and sang by Thomas Dartmouth Rice, a white originator of blackface performance.

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Jim Crow Laws

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  1. Jim Crow Laws Caryn Hernandez Karen Harriger Fernanda Navarro

  2. The word “Jim Crow” is from the minstrel show song “Jump Jim Crow.” Written in 1829 and sang by Thomas Dartmouth Rice, a white originator of blackface performance. “Jim Crow” became a character in minstrel shows everywhere which were comedy shows consisting of many acts about blacks in the South. The Creation of Jim Crow

  3. Congress wanted to protect African American’s rights by passing the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments to the U.S. constitution during the Reconstruction period. Southern legislators then passed the short-lived Black Codes which returns newly freed slaves back to slavery legally. After the Reconstruction, Southern governments passed “ The Jim Crow Laws” that allowed racial segregation and prevented black people from doing activities the white people could do. Early History

  4. Jim Crow Laws enforced segregation and these are a few examples: Intermarriage-all marriages between a white person and a negro were prohibited. Juvenile delinquents- white boys and negro boys had separate buildings and could not associate. Parks-colored people could not go to white people’s parks and vice-versa. Facilities- white and black people could not use the same facilities including water fountains, restrooms, schools, restaurants, libraries, lockers, and forms of transportation. “Jim Crow Laws”

  5. Segregation • The “Jim Crow” Laws made Southern Blacks afraid of white people because they would be cruel to the African Americans. • During the Wilson Administration, Wilson at first promised African Americans that they would have equal rights as white people, but he went back on his word and took away rights.

  6. Black people didn’t wish to except the Jim Crow Laws so they protested. Ida B. Wells, a journalist and a former school teacher, protested against lynching in March of 1892 in Memphis, Tennessee. William E. B. Du Bois believed that African Americans should be given their constitutional rights because they were American citizens. National Association for the advancement of colored people-founded in 1909 main voice for colored peoples defence. Protest!

  7. African Americans were succeeding and that irritated the whites. This jealousy erupted in a vicious illegal war against Southern blacks. During this time the whites started the Klu Klux Klan, a secret society of white Southerners that terrorized blacks As a result thousands of African Americans were lynched, brutalized, and terrorized The government made efforts to stop the KKK, but so many were involved they gave up on stopping it. Enforcing Segregation

  8. Escaping Jim Crow Laws • African Americans made all-black towns in Kansas and Oklahoma the 1880’s and 1890’s. • In their communities they organized self associations such as social clubs, and life insurance programs. • African Americans would sing and tell stories mocking the whites in their presence.

  9. There were many law suits in the Supreme Court that led to the decline of the Jim crow Laws. The Civil Rights Movements began when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white person even though it was against the law. In 1964 and 1965 the blacks finally achieved their rights when the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Acts were passed. The African Americans got the rights they deserved as U.S. citizens. The Decline of the Jim Crow Laws

  10. Works Cited Page • Jim Crow Laws, 5 Jan. ‘98 Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Park Interpretive Staff 28 Nov. ‘05 http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.htm • Jim Crow Laws 28 Nov. ‘05 Wikipedia, The free encyclopedia 28 Nov. ’05 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_law • Creating Jim Crow The History of Jim Crow 28 Nov. ‘05 http://jimcrowhistory.org/history/creating/htm • Segregation in the U.S. Government The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow 28 Nov. ’05 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories events_segregation.html

  11. Works Cited Page, Cont. • Surviving Jim Crow The History of Jim Crow 28 Nov. ’05 http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/surviving.htm • Resisting Jim Crow The History of Jim Crow 28 Nov. ’05 http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/resisting.htm • Escaping Jim Crow The History of Jim Crow 28 Nov. ’05 http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/escaping.htm • The Transition from Segregation to Civil Rights The History of Jim Crow 28 Nov. ’05 http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/transition.htm

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