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Jim Crow

Jim Crow . Alayna Putterman. Blacks Inferior. Jim Crow: stereotype of blacks First from a song by Daddy Rice; paint face black, perform/act like a black man 400+ laws allowing for racism, segregation, and discrimination After Civil War Davis. 1860s-1870s.

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Jim Crow

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  1. Jim Crow • Alayna Putterman

  2. Blacks Inferior • Jim Crow: stereotype of blacks • First from a song by Daddy Rice; paint face black, perform/act like a black man • 400+ laws allowing for racism, segregation, and discrimination • After Civil War Davis

  3. 1860s-1870s • mainly southern • Fourteenth/Fifteenth Amendments + Civil Right Acts of 1866/1875 allowed whites to take away all rights • Segregation; own communities with officials in public office, voting, own buildings • Start of Ku Klux Klan Davis

  4. Legislation TopicsTotal Number Enacted • Segregation Statutes • (includes adoption, business licenses, • health care, housing, prisons, public accommodation, • public carrier, school and race classification) • 283 • Miscegenation Statutes 127 • Voting Rights 29 • Total439 • September 1949: only 15 states w/out any of these laws (north) Flack

  5. Government gives up on protecting rights • Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President • 1880s: harsh/more brutal; lynching • voting- only small percentage voted, those who did had their ballots stolen

  6. fear of federal government intervening • were okay with giving up voting rights to end the terror and violence • does not end.

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  8. “don’t get used to it” • blacks started to prefer the segregation • Separate but Equal • Plessy v. Ferguson Case: government does not crete anti-lynching laws Davis

  9. uphold themselves: songs, jokes and stories to mock whites • discussed them with whites present (work)

  10. 1909-1910: NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) • strongest way to resist the racism • NAACP able to slowly make changes for society Davis

  11. Davis, Ronald. "From Terror to Triumph: Historical Overview." • Davis, Ronald L.F. Creating Jim Crow. Web. <jimcrowhistory.org> • Flack, Susan. "Jim Crow Legislation Overview." Web.

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