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What were Jim Crow Laws?

Legislation

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The Great Migration

Jim Crow Laws

Martin Luther King, Jr.
What Rights Are Worth Fighting For?
Fourteenth Amendment (1868)
Designed to grant citizenship to individuals once enslaved



Separate Car Act(1890)
Separate but equal train car accommodations



Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Upheld prior segregation laws :Separate but equal
Ku
Klux
Klan
Lynchings
                                Colorado
U.S
            0% 0%
                                White: 65
                                Black: 3

                       Whites
                        27%




  Blacks
   73%
Wilmington Riot (1868)
"The North symbolized to me all that I had not
felt or seen; it had no relation to what actually
existed. Yet by imagining a place where
everything is possible, it kept hope alive inside
of me."

                              Richard Wright
Daily Life According to
Jim Crow Laws…
Miscegenation:
         Prohibited interracial marriages

1901: The Alabama Constitution is amended to block the passage
of any law authorizing or legalizing interracial marriage. The
measure will remain unchanged until November 2000.


1955:The Maryland legislature amends an anti-miscegenation
statute first passed in 1884. Under the new law, any white
woman who births a child conceived with a black or mixed-race
man will be imprisoned for up to five years. The law will be
renewed in 1957.
Public
Entertainment
School
Segregation
White’s Only: No
Coloreds Allowed
Voting
 A Black male could not shake hands with a White male

 Blacks and Whites were not supposed to eat together.

 Blacks were not allowed to show public affection toward one another in
  public, especially kissing, because it offended Whites.

 Whites did not use names of respect when referring to Blacks, for
  example, Mr., Mrs., Ms., Sir or Ma'am.

 If a Black person rode in a car with a White person, the Black person sat
  in the back seat or the back of a truck.
“There comes a time when
people get tired of being
trampled over by the tired
feet of oppression …”
               Martin Luther King, Jr
Civil rights movement

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Civil rights movement

  • 1. The Journey to the Civil Rights Movement
  • 2. Home What were Jim Crow Laws? Legislation Violence The Great Migration Jim Crow Laws Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • 3. What Rights Are Worth Fighting For?
  • 4.
  • 5. Fourteenth Amendment (1868) Designed to grant citizenship to individuals once enslaved Separate Car Act(1890) Separate but equal train car accommodations Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Upheld prior segregation laws :Separate but equal
  • 7. Lynchings Colorado U.S 0% 0% White: 65 Black: 3 Whites 27% Blacks 73%
  • 9. "The North symbolized to me all that I had not felt or seen; it had no relation to what actually existed. Yet by imagining a place where everything is possible, it kept hope alive inside of me." Richard Wright
  • 10. Daily Life According to Jim Crow Laws…
  • 11.
  • 12. Miscegenation: Prohibited interracial marriages 1901: The Alabama Constitution is amended to block the passage of any law authorizing or legalizing interracial marriage. The measure will remain unchanged until November 2000. 1955:The Maryland legislature amends an anti-miscegenation statute first passed in 1884. Under the new law, any white woman who births a child conceived with a black or mixed-race man will be imprisoned for up to five years. The law will be renewed in 1957.
  • 13.
  • 16.
  • 19.  A Black male could not shake hands with a White male  Blacks and Whites were not supposed to eat together.  Blacks were not allowed to show public affection toward one another in public, especially kissing, because it offended Whites.  Whites did not use names of respect when referring to Blacks, for example, Mr., Mrs., Ms., Sir or Ma'am.  If a Black person rode in a car with a White person, the Black person sat in the back seat or the back of a truck.
  • 20. “There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the tired feet of oppression …” Martin Luther King, Jr

Editor's Notes

  1. What attitudes, beliefs, and events led to the necessity of a civil rights movement?
  2. Foundation of our great country “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
  3. Racial caste system. Blacks were believed to be “less than” whites and thus treated as second class citizens. Jim Crow Laws became a way of life between written law and expected etiquette. It symbolized legal segregation.
  4. HomerPlessy was jailed for sitting in the “White” car of the East Louisiana Railroad. The issue went to the Supreme Court where they ruled separate facilities for whites and black was constitutional as long as they were equal
  5. KKK began during Reconstruction as a type of fraternity. The KKK terrorized political and social figures in the black community. Eventually, thousands of blacks were beaten, whipped, and murdered. The KKK also intimidated thousands of blacks from voting
  6. Between 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States
  7. Was the result of a newspaper article that brought light to interracial relations. 25 people were killed and businesses burned
  8. Between 1900 and 1660, about 5 million black migrated to the North in search of better lives. What happens when there is more people looking for jobs? Competition
  9. Here are just a few examples of actual laws. People who violated the laws were either fined or imprisoned. How would you feel if someone told you who you could or could not marry?
  10. Public facilities including water fountains and restrooms upheld Plessy V Ferguson. Often, employers such as those in factories would have both white and black restrooms
  11. In 1956, A Louisiana law required public halls, movie theaters, opera houses, and all other places of public entertainment to separate white and black patrons. These laws were found throughout the country but predominantly in the south
  12. Although the education system was suppose to be equal, most African American schools were highly inadequate.
  13. Under Jim Crow, people of color were separated on all public transportation. As seen in the picture, there was a clear divider between the races. It is important to realize that “colored” basically applied to anyone who was not white.
  14. Black voters in the south experienced disenfranchisement. Their right to vote was often taken away from them through actual laws, intimidation, and unreasonable registration/identification requirements