Jim+Crow




 * 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! **

**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 14th ammendment granted us African Americans Rights. It granted citizenship to African Americans once enslaved. Due process is the right to be treated fairly and have a fighting chance when facing legal action. Equal protection of the laws means that everyone has a fair chance under the law until proven guilty. Government has to follow steps to throw a person in jail. **


 * 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__] **
 * I remember that a creole man sat deliberately in the white section even though he is black and then it was taken all of the way to the supreme court that decided that “ separate and equal” upholds what the constitution states and this would be true until 1954. **


 * 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 was a fictional character from a song which Daddy Rice performed . He darkened his face with charcoal to make him look African American. He later became a symbol for oppressing Black laws. **

=[|__Jim Crow Laws LINK 1__] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> / <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Jim Crow Laws LINK 2__] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">/ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Jim Crow Laws LINK 3__] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #001ee6; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> / <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Jim Crow Laws Link 4__] =
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1935, Oklahoma prohibited Blacks and Whites from boating together **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1905, Georgia established separate parks for Blacks and Whites **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1930, Birmingham, Alabama, made it illegal for Blacks and Whites to play checkers or dominoes together **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The schools for white children and the schools for negro children shall be conducted separately **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The laws affected me greatly because I live in Birmingham and they broke up my weekly checker club. I feel the worst is the separated parks because humans cannot share parks? **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Jim Crow Images LINK 1__] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">/ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Jim Crow Images LINK 2__] **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jim Crow America looked like two separate species even though we were all human. I think that one picture that definitely represents and explain the realities of the times are colored water fountains etc. **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Scottsboro LINK **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9 black men were falsely accused of raping 2 white women. They were all sent to jail but the youngest, a twelve year old, was sentenced to death. This really made me feel hopeless. There was nothing we could do to save their lives. **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7) Why should anyone care about your lilfe during Jim Crow America? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Why should I care? Link__] **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">People should care about my life because we don’t want signs hanging outside restaurants or over water fountains discriminating people again. Everyone should understand America's recent past in order to better comprehend how much has changed and whether or not difficulties with racial equality still remain. Nobody wants to go through such terrible times again and we can stop it from happening. **