overview imagery to accompany lecture about Jim Crow Era lynching

1. African American 1865-1970

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8. Lynching Deaths in the United States

9. • Movie set
during period
of military
desegregatio
n

11. President Harry Truman bans racial
segregation in the military
•1948

14. Brown vs. Board of Ed 1954

15. 1950s and 1960s
MLK protests
peacefully

16. Types of Segregation
• De Jure
– Racial separation by law
– Pre 1954 decision
• De Facto
– Racial separation by choice
– Now…..

17. Pitt County Schools…segregated
until early 1970s

18. Slavery in the South….

19. Who is in the tree ?
• What is holding the
man in the tree up?
-- what does coming
“down” out of the
tree mean?

21. 54th
Massachusetts

22. From the movie: GLORY

27. Reconstruction period 1865-1877

28. 15th
Amendment: right to vote cannot
be denied because of skin color

29. 1877-1960s

31. Public Schools: separate but UNEQUAL

32. Lynching …a tool of terror

33. When were JIM CROW laws in
effect??
• Late 1800s to the 1960s in the South

34. What were Jim Crow Laws…
• “the whole intent of Jim Crow etiquette boiled
down to one simple rule: blacks must
demonstrate their inferiority to whites by
actions, words, and manners.”

35. Jim Crow ….on the sidewalk
• It was understood that blacks would defer to
whites and step off of sidewalks when whites
passed

36. Jim Crow ….out to eat
• Blacks could buy food from counters or
windows near the kitchen in restaurants, but
were not allowed to eat in “white” restaurants
with whites.

37. Jim Crow at the state fair
State and county fairs often had what
were referred to as “colored day,” a day
when blacks attended the fair.

38. Jim Crow…..on buses
• Sections of buses, trains, and other forms of
public transportation were designated for
blacks and whites

39. Jim Crow…..movies
• Blacks would buy tickets to movies and other
shows through a separate window, enter
through a separate door, and sit in the
balcony.

40. Jim Crow….public facilities
• Water fountains, building entrances, and
bathrooms had signs designating who could
use certain facilities
.
.
.
.

41. • Hospitals, if they treated blacks at all, had
separate wards for blacks and whites

42. Plessey vs. Ferguson, 1896
• Court case said
SEPARATE but EQUAL
was LEGAL…..
• This made JIM CROW
laws ….LEGAL
• Plessey case overturned
in 1954 by Brown vs.
Board of Education

43. cover

44. dedication page

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