Jim+Crow+Questions


 * 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] **
 * This granted citenzenship to me and guranteed me the right to vote. ** We have equal protection of the law or our laws would always have protection. The due process also said that we had to follow certain steps.

A black 30 year old sat in a "white" car of the east louisiana railroad and was jailed for this. If he was white there would have been no problem. But his very light shade of black was enough to consider him a black. It was ashame but the supreme court called it constitutional.
 * 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] **

**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**] The name Jim Crow is often used to describe the segregation laws, rules, and customs that arosed after Reconstruction ended in 1877 and continued until the mid-1960s. It became to be known as a racial slur. Jim Crow did not write laws this was a broader idea.


 * 4) What are some specific examples of the Jim Crow laws from southern states? How did the laws affect you? [|Jim Crow Laws LINK 1] / [|Jim Crow Laws LINK 2] / [|Jim Crow Laws LINK 3] **

It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other in any game of cards or dice, dominoes or checkers.”
 * —Birmingham, Alabama, 1930**

“Marriages are void when one party is a white person and the other is possessed of one-eighth or more negro, Japanese, or Chinese blood.” “Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school.” Jim Crow was a highly steriotyped and racist image.
 * —Nebraska, 1911**
 * —Missouri, 1929**
 * 5) What did Jim Crow America look like in the 1900s? What are some images that can help explain the realities of the time? [|Jim Crow Images LINK 1] / [|Jim Crow Images LINK 2] **

Black and white hobos got in a train and the black hobos kicked the white hobos out of the train and the black hobos were charged with sexual assult because of racism. I would think this is bull. Because this never happened and they are hating just because they are black.
 * 6) What happened in the Scottsboro Case? How did it make you feel as an African American in the South? [|Scottsboro LINK] **


 * 7) Why should anyone care about your lilfe during Jim Crow America? [|Why should I care? Link] **
 * These laws were all unconstitutional. **