The Jim Crow laws established racial segregation and discrimination in the Southern United States between 1882 and 1968, prohibiting African Americans from interacting with whites in public places, using the same transportation, or attending the same schools. The laws negatively impacted African Americans by denying them privileges, instilling constant fear, and leading to poorer living conditions, less education, and widespread discrimination. The Jim Crow system developed from a combination of historical factors, racial beliefs of the time, and a snowball effect that reinforced further discrimination.

1. Jim Crow Law
- By Kyle Pine-

2. - Racial system which ran everywhere.
- There was no actual Jim Crow
- Many individual laws.

3. Why Was It So Important? Was
It separated whites and blacks
- Couldn’t be near each other
-Shake Hands
-Light a White mans cigarette
-Show public affection
-Always say “Mr.____” to any white person
-Whites called all blacks by their first name
-Blacks had to ride in the back of the car or
back of trunk.
- Blacks < Whites

4. Time Era
• Mainly in the 1882 – 1968 area.
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5. -No Money
- Clans such as the KKK
- Not lots of jobs
- Poor quality products

6. How Did this Law Happen?
• History
• Beliefs
• Snowball Effect

7. Effects
• The effects of the law were obvious
– No privileges
– Constant fear
– Blacks were poorer with a lesser pay
– Blacks were almost always less educated
– Vast discrimination towards all blacks

8. Sources
• Pilgrim, David. “Jim Crow Laws.” Professor of Sociology Ferris State University.
2000. 4/29/09. http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm
• Simkin, John. “Jim Crow.” Spartacus Educational. 2001. 4/29/09
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjimcrow.htm