The Jim Crow laws legalized racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans in the United States. This included segregating public schools and facilities, restricting African American voting through poll taxes and literacy tests, and maintaining segregation in public transportation. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine with its 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, allowing Jim Crow laws to spread throughout the Southern states and some Northern states as well.

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?