Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation and social inequality between blacks and whites from 1877 to the mid-1960s. Strict etiquette dictated that blacks were not allowed to make physical contact or show public affection with whites. Blacks had to use titles like Mr. and Mrs. when addressing whites but were referred to by their first names only. If in a car with whites, blacks were required to sit in the back. The Supreme Court declared racial segregation unconstitutional in 1954, but full enforcement of civil rights did not occur until the 1970s. Early civil rights acts passed in the 1860s-70s aimed to protect newly freed slaves' basic rights.

1. PRE-CIVIL RIGHTS
AMERICA/CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENT
Joey Canavan

2. Jim Crow Laws
 1877 through mid 1960s
 Rules
 A black male could not offer his hand (to shake hands) with a white male because it implied being socially equal.
Obviously, a black male could not offer his hand or any other part of his body to a white woman, because he risked
being accused of rape.
 Blacks and whites were not supposed to eat together. If they did eat together, whites were to be served first, and
some sort of partition was to be placed between them.
 Under no circumstance was a black male to offer to light the cigarette of a white female -- that gesture implied
intimacy.
 Blacks were not allowed to show public affection toward one another in public, especially kissing, because it
offended whites.
 Jim Crow etiquette prescribed that blacks were introduced to whites, never whites to blacks. For example: "Mr.
Peters (the white person), this is Charlie (the black person), that I spoke to you about."
 Whites did not use courtesy titles of respect when referring to blacks, for example, Mr., Mrs., Miss., Sir, or Ma'am.
Instead, blacks were called by their first names. Blacks had to use courtesy titles when referring to whites, and were
not allowed to call them by their first names.
 If a black person rode in a car driven by a white person, the black person sat in the back seat, or the back of a truck.
 White motorists had the right-of-way at all intersections.

3. Jim Crow Laws cont.
 Social Rules
 Never assert or even intimate that a white person is lying.
 Never impute dishonorable intentions to a white person.
 Never suggest that a white person is from an inferior
class.
 Never lay claim to, or overly demonstrate, superior
knowledge or intelligence.
 Never curse a white person.
 Never laugh derisively at a white person.
 Never comment upon the appearance of a white female.

4. Other Facts
 If you had even the smallest hint of African
American in your blood, you were still
considered black
 Ex: Being 7/8ths white and 1/8th black, still meant
you were considered black
 The US supreme court made illegal the
“separate but equal” clause in 1954
 Wasn’t fully enforced until the 1970s

5. Acts and Amendments
 First Civil Rights acts were created in 1866,
1870, 1871 and 1875
 Right to sue and be sued
 Right to give evidence
 Right to have personal property
 FourteenthAmendments
 Ratified 1868
 Granted citizenship and protected the civil
liberties of newly freed slaves

6. Bibliography
 "Civil Rights Movement." History.com. A&E
Television Networks, n.d.Web. 09 Apr. 2014.
 Infoplease. Infoplease, n.d.Web. 11 Apr. 2014.
 PBS. PBS, n.d.Web. 11 Apr. 2014.
 "WhatWas Jim Crow?" WhatWas Jim Crow.
N.p., n.d.Web. 08 Apr. 2014.