Jim Crow Day 2 (Extension)

2.  Name may has often been attributed to "
Jump Jim Crow", a song-and-dance caricature of
African Americans (very negative)
 Basis for segregation was “Separate but
equal” was seen constitutional and upheld by
supreme court (Plessy case)

3.  By the end of the lesson I will be able to :
 1) explain how the Jim Crow laws discriminated
against Black people in the USA
 2) explain the role of the Ku Klux Klan in
maintaining segregation in the USA

4.  Poll taxes and literary requirements meant many
Black people were denied the vote.
 White people not affected by this (1866)
 Meant that Black people not represented in
political system

5.  White pupils and Black pupils attended different
schools.
 Supreme court stated that as long as they were of
equal quality then this was fine.

6. Summer High School for white Children in Kansas

10.  Black people not allowed to travel in same
carriages as white people
 also had separate waiting rooms
 Plessy challenged this in 1896 but law upheld by
Supreme Court

13.  Black people also segregated when eating out
White Coloured

17. Pool Hall in Memphis

20. Write down bullet points under the following
headings
 School
 Travel
 Leisure
 Housing
 Voting
Extension
What effects will the lack of a proper education and not being able
to vote have on Black people? Think about housing, standard of
living etc

21.  Jim Crow Laws allowed all of this
 Why did Black people not fight back?
 Research the Ku Klux Klan. What was
the organisation and what did they
do?