Jim+Crow+Life




 * To set the stage for the civil rights movement, you must first understand the environment of segregation in the United States in the first half of the 20th century. What was life like in Jim Crow America? Cut and paste this information into a new page in your Unit 8 Online Notebook. You (and your partner, if you have one) are African Americans who have lived through the era of Jim Crow in America. Using the links provided in this activity, respond to the “oral history questions” in first person . You can do this in Word by copying this document onto a new document , completing it using the resources below, and cutting and pasting it into a new page on your notebook. Make sure your responses are in first person! **

It gave us the right to vote. Due process means that the government has to do whatever it promised to do. Equal protection of the laws means that no man of color should be discriminated against the law without any reason.
 * 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] **


 * 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] **

it declared state segregation laws constitutional, as long as we were provided "separate but equal" facilities. Plessy represented a continued erosion of the Fourteenth Amendment by allowing Jim Crow laws to flourish, particularly in the South.

These laws permitted many whites who felt threatened by emancipation to maintain a delusion of superiority. The act of segregation made us appear inferior and encouraged racism to continue unchecked for decades.

The name Jim Crow is often used to describe the segregation laws, rules, and customs which arose after Reconstruction ended in 1877 and continued until the mid-1960s.Jim Crow was not a real man, he was a character who was a stereotypical colored man.
 * 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] **

=**[|Jim Crow Laws LINK 1]  / [|Jim Crow Laws LINK 2] / <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #001ee6; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">[|Jim Crow Laws LINK 3] / ****[|Jim Crow Laws Link 4]**= examples: White children went to different schools than us. White people were in seperate hospitals than us. These laws affect me because I'm basically not allowed to interact with a white person in resteraunts,hospitals,prisons, school, or transportation. I think the worst law is that we and colored kids aren't allowed to go to school together because the law is basically saying how they shouldn't make friends with eachother or even talk to eachother.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">4) What are some specific examples of the Jim Crow laws from southern states? How did the laws affect you? Which one do you feel is the worst? **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">5) What did Jim Crow America look like in the 1900s? What are some images that can help explain the realities of the time? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6e1a7e; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">[|Jim Crow Images LINK 1] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">/ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #001ee6; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">[|Jim Crow Images LINK 2] **

This picture showed that we weren't allowed to wait with white people.

This picture showed that we weren't allowed to drink out of the same water cooler as the white people.

This picture is what Jim Crow looked like. Two white women dressed as men were found on a train and they were scared they would get prosecuted for having sexual activity on the train with white men they said that the nine black boys raped them. Their was no evidence connecting them to the women but they were still prosecuted except for the youngest because they were black. This makes me feel angry because it shows how much of a disadvantage you have for being colored or how you don't even need evidence to say that a black man raped you. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Because my life was treacherous during the Jim Crow America and that we should've resisted. It shows the real meaning of "racism" and not just a "whites only" sign because it was so much more than that.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">6) What happened in the Scottsboro Case? How did it make you feel as an African American in the South? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #001ee6; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> [|Scottsboro LINK] **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">7) Why should anyone care about your lilfe during Jim Crow America? [|Why should I care? Link] **