Jim+Crow

 By Rose and Merrill  5/3/2011  History 8-3

 Jim Crow Laws


 * 1) Right after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment was ratified. What did the 14th Amendment provide for African Americans? What does “due process” and “equal protection of the laws” mean? 14th LINK**

 -The Fourteenth Amendment stated that segregation in schools was unconstitutional.  - Due Process is American principal that government most respect when referring to legal rights of a person -Equal Protection of the laws is a clause that secures the rights and promise to the people issued by the United States.


 * 2) Unfortunately, your equal rights were challenged by the Supreme Court in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. What do you remember about the facts, decision, and impact of this case? Plessy LINK**

 -He could trace back his ancestors to different descent. He was in the wrong rail car that was for “whites” only because he was separate by complication. He got a lawyer that said it violated his rights for the thirteenth and fourteenth Amendment and this discord resulted in a court case. This brought up the facts that the Constitution does in fact apply to different races."S but equal."


 * 3) The laws developed in the South became known as Jim Crow laws. Who was this Jim Crow fellow? Did he write the laws? Jim Crow LINK**

 -Rice, a white man came across a black person. Some say it was an old man and others say it was a a young boy. Rice made his dance routine off the idea. In 1838 people started using “Jim Crow” as a term that meant racial epithet for blacks. sort of offencive but not as offencive as other words.. It as used to oppress blacks. It was a stereotype of blacks. “Jim Crow” was not a man that wrote the laws but an idea.


 * 4) What are some specific examples of the Jim Crow laws from southern states? How did the laws affect you?**

 -Jim Crow laws were anti-black laws That were pro-segregation. Some thought whites were the chosen people. Relationships were very much frowned upon. Black men could not shake hands with white men, or any part of his body to a women. Blacks and whites could not eat together, smoke together, an blacks could not show intimacy in public. Could never dishonor whites.

  **5) What did Jim Crow America look like in the 1900s? What are some images that can help explain the realities of the time?**

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 * 7) Why should anyone care about your life during Jim Crow America? Why should I care? Link**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - “Jim Crow” is what set a place card on colored people back in the mid 1880’s. It made life for blacks a whole lot harder then it need be. We need to learn from mistakes. We can’t pretend like it didn't happen, we have to acknowledge our faults an grow as a community. hoping that this knowledge brings less motives to have violence between races. We must understand the rights that must be shown for everyone.