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Jim Crow. By: Ravyn Betts, Melissa Miller, Bruce Sims II. Definition of Jim Crow.
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Jim Crow By: Ravyn Betts, Melissa Miller, Bruce Sims II
Definition of Jim Crow • My name is Jim Crow is often used describe the segregation laws, rules, and customs which arose after Reconstruction ended 1877 and continued until the mid-1960’s. How did the name become associated with these “ Black Codes” which took away many of the rights which had been granted to Blacks through the 13th,14th, and 15th Amendments?
What is it? • Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-Black laws.
What Did It Do? The Jim Crow system was undergirded by the following