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Jim Crow Laws Early 1900’s to 1960’s

Jim Crow Laws Early 1900’s to 1960’s. BY: Matt Manley, Morgan Miller, Megan McCoy, Nautika King. The definition. The practice of discriminating against and segregating Black people, especially practiced in the American South from the mid-1800’s to the mid-19th century.

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Jim Crow Laws Early 1900’s to 1960’s

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  1. Jim Crow LawsEarly 1900’s to 1960’s BY: Matt Manley, Morgan Miller, Megan McCoy, Nautika King

  2. The definition The practice of discriminating against and segregating Black people, especially practiced in the American South from the mid-1800’s to the mid-19th century.

  3. Segregated water fountains were common during the Jim Crow period.

  4. The first Jim Crow law. • In 1881, Tennessee passed the first Jim Crow law, which segregated train cars. Other Southern states soon followed segregated Train Depot in Manchester, Ga. 1938

  5. Examples of the laws •  No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed. Alabama • The schools for white children and the schools for negro children shall be conducted separately.  •  The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any colored persons upon ground set apart or used for the burial of white persons. • Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them.

  6. Who is Jim Crow? Jim Crow was not a person, yet affected the lives of millions of people. Named after a popular minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans and segregated the United States.

  7. What started Jim Crow? The song Jump Jim Crow was shown on a Minstrel Show. The entertainer Thomas Dartmouth Rice performed as the popular character Jim Crow in 1928. In the shows white performers would blacken their faces with burnt cork (called BlackFace). They would dress in outlandish costumes, and then perform songs and skits that mocked African Americans.

  8. http://www.youtub .com/watch?v=ALTam2L9NhE Video of Jump Jim Crow Video about Jim Crow history http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzL2Brhg9aQ

  9. Bugs Bunny in “Black Face” This controversial episode of Looney Tunes was aired in 1953. It has Bugs Bunny depicted as a southern slave and Yosemite Sam as the slave owner. Bugs Bunny is displaying “Black Face”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBar0VZhs68

  10. Books and Movies • Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race. (book written by Jennifer Ritterhouse) • Ethnic Notions (1987) A documentary about racial stereotyping in the United States. • The Color Purple (1985) The movie takes place in the Jim Crow era.

  11. Work cited • "Blackface!Origins of Jump Jim Crow."Blackface!. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2013. <http://black-face.com/jim-crow.htm>. • Facilities, Toilet. "Jim Crow Laws."National Parks Service. National Parks Service, 17 Oct. 2013. Web. 10 Nov. 2013. <http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm>. • "Jim Crow." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2013. <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/>. • "Jim Crow." Jim Crow. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Nov. 2013. <http://download.publicradio.org/podcast/americanradioworks/2001/remembering.mp3?_kip_ipx=1110558341-1340453206>. • "Jim Crow Laws - Separate Is Not Equal."Jim Crow Laws - Separate Is Not Equal. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Nov. 2013. <http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/jim-crow.html>. • "Jim Crow Movies & TV." Shmoop. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2013. <http://www.shmoop.com/jim-crow/movies-tv.html>. • "Jim Crow laws denied blacks dignity, vote - October 1960 - Civil Rights - A Jackson Sun Special Report." Jim Crow laws denied blacks dignity, vote - October 1960 - Civil Rights - A Jackson Sun Special Report. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2013. <http://orig.jacksonsun.com/civilrights/sec

  12. More work cited • "Jump Jim Crow." YouTube. YouTube, 7 Sept. 2012. Web. 13 Nov. 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5FpKAxQNKU&feature=youtu.be>. • "Southern Fried Rabbit." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 13 Nov. 2013. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046350/>. • "The Minstrel Show." The Minstrel Show. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Nov. 2013. <http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/jackson/minstrel/minstrel.html>. • "The Origins of Jim Crow." Origins of Jim Crow. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Nov. 2013. <http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/origins.htm>. • "What Was Jim Crow?." What was Jim Crow. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2013. <http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm>. • "southern fried rabbit ." youtube. N.p., 19 Jan. 2013. Web. 12 Nov. 2013. <http://www.youtub .com/watch?v=ALTam2L9NhE>. • "Jim Crow Movies & TV." Shmoop. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2013. <http://www.shmoop.com/jim-crow/movies-tv.html>.

  13. Websites for sources • http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm • http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/jim-crow.html • http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm • http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/ • http://black-face.com/jim-crow.htm • http://download.publicradio.org/podcast/americanradioworks/2001/remembering.mp3?_kip_ipx=1110558341-1340453206 • http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/jackson/minstrel/minstrel.html • http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/origins.htm • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5FpKAxQNKU&feature=youtu.be • http://www.youtub .com/watch?v=ALTam2L9NhE • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046350/ • http://www.shmoop.com/jim-crow/movies-tv.html • http://orig.jacksonsun.com/civilrights/sec1_crow.shtml

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