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Jim Crow Era

Jim Crow Era. Shira Richards-Rachlin. Background. The Jim Crow era starts at the end of Reconstruction which is the time period right after the Civil War The 14th Amendment was recently ratified to give citizenship to people who were once in slavery

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Jim Crow Era

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  1. Jim Crow Era • Shira Richards-Rachlin

  2. Background • The Jim Crow era starts at the end of Reconstruction which is the time period right after the Civil War • The 14th Amendment was recently ratified to give citizenship to people who were once in slavery • also recently, the federal government stepped in to stop criminal acts against African Americans including targeting the KKK “The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow”

  3. The Name • a character named“Jim Crow” arose in 1830 from a show performer who painted his face black with charcoal and did a dance singing the song, “Jump Jim Crow” • then the character became a big hit for acting in minstrel plays (old musicals put on by white men) • the name then turned into a racial slur against African Americans and eventually a term for discriminatory laws and practices “Creating Jim Crow”

  4. Purpose • by the 1890s Jim Crow laws were built up in the South to make the low rank African Americans had in society clear • the point of these laws was to separate the two races in most public places: schools, parks, transportation, and housing • the KKK and other racist groups swept across the South to try to show their white supremacy “Creating Jim Crow”

  5. Impact • both children and adults were impacted in their everyday lives when they went anywhere outside of their homes • the separation acts became violent and between 1889 and 1930 over 3,700 adults were lynched in riots and mobs • black men were not able to vote and children were getting a worse education then white kids since the schools were worse “Creating/Surving Jim Crow”

  6. Legal Action for Freedom • the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was a law that gave citizenship to African Americans that were born in the US • in 1875 Republicans passed a civil-rights bill to guarantee freedom of access to public places which improved lives until it was later knocked down • the Fourteenth Amendment wouldn’t let states deprive, “any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law” so everyone had right to fair treatment in the courts “Creating Jim Crow”

  7. Legal Action against Equality • even though many acts of violence were committed, legal action was not pursued • in 1883 the Supreme Court ruled the Civil Rights act of 1875 unconstitutional even though it helped improve African Americans’ lives • in 1890 Louisiana ruled that African Americans ride in separate railroad cars which led to the famous case of Plessy V. Ferguson “Creating Jim Crow”

  8. Plessy VS. Ferguson • this is a famous Supreme Court case where a man named Homer Plessy was put in jail for sitting in the “White” car of a Louisiana train • after the Supreme Court’s decision about the Civil Rights Act, Southern states like Louisiana started enforcing stricter segregation laws • African Americans protested the laws by having Plessy, who was light skinned, sit in the “White” section of the train “Creating/Surviving Jim Crow”

  9. Decision • The Supreme Court agreed with a local judge who ruled against Plessy • they said his rights were not withheld since the accommodations were the same as the “White” section on the train • this case is a good example of the Supreme Court’s rulings on segregation “Rise and Fall of Jim Crow/Creating Jim Crow”

  10. Examples of Laws • Jim Crow laws included many topics like burials, education, and even pool and billiard rooms • “No colored barber shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls.” -Georgia • “The schools for white children and the schools for negro children shall be conducted separately.” -Florida “Jim Crow Laws”

  11. Pictures Segregation in public places Jim Crow the Character Billiard room for “Colored” only

  12. Works Cited • Davis, Ronald L.F. “Creating Jim Crow.” The History of Jim Crow. New York Life. Web. 29 Mar. 2012 • Davis, Ronald L.F. "Surviving Jim Crow." The History of Jim Crow. New York Life. Web. 29 Mar. 2012. • Randall, Vernellia R. "Examples of Jim Crow Laws." Examples of Jim Crow Laws. The University of Dayton, 2001. Web. 3 Apr. 2012. • "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow." The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow.PBS, 2002. Web. 29 Mar. 2012.

  13. Pictures Works Cited • http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjimcrow.htm • http://nationdivided.wikispaces.com/Jim+Crow+ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws • http://kcjohnson.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/jim-crow.jpg

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