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BLACK PEOPLE IN THE USA

THE JIM CROW LAWS

1UNTIL MOST BLACK PEOPLE WERE ...

1863SLAVES2

BLACK PEOPLE HAD NOT CHOSEN TO COME TO THE USA...

THEY WERE TAKEN FROM AFRICA AGAINST THEIR WILL!FREE LABOUR FOR PLANTATIONSSLAVES

3THE AFRICANS WERE TRANSPORTED IN APPAULING CONDITIONS...

4ONCE THEY ARRIVED IN THE USA THEY WERE SOLD AS SLAVES...

THEY WERE SOLD TO WORK ON IN THE STATES.

PLANTATIONSSOUTHERN5

IN 1863 SLAVERY WAS ...

ABOLISHED6In 1865 southerners created BLACK CODES to control and limit the freedom of former slaves.

In 1866 the codes were suspended

UNFORTUNATELY THE PROBLEMS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS DID NOT END THERE...

7CHANGES WERE MADE TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION WHICH GAVE HOPE FOR A BETTER LIFE...

Fourteenth Amendment

Stated Black people had the right to and be treated by law in the same as White people.Fifteenth Amendment

Gave Black American adult males the right to .18681870freedomvote8

WHAT WERE THESE JIM CROW LAWS??WHAT DO YOU THINK THE JIM CROW LAWS WERE DESIGNED TO DO?THE JIM CROW LAWS9THE JIM CROW LAWS...

Laws passed by the states between 1877 and the mid-1960s.

The wanted to over the Blacks

SouthernSouthkeep control10

1828 Thomas Dartmouth Rice Performed a song-and-dance routine pretending he was a black man Made fun of black people stupid, lazy & unreliable

WHO WAS JIM CROW???

11WATCH A CLIP FROM BIRTH OF A NATION (1915) AND THE JAZZ SINGER (1928)...

WHILE WATCHING THE CLIPS THINK ABOUT HOW THEY ARE PORTRAYING BLACK PEOPLE AND WHY THE FILM STUDIOS DIDNT HIRE BLACK PEOPLE.

12SO WHAT WERE THE JIM CROW LAWS?

Jim Crow laws created separate societies:

This is called

Under these laws, Black became legally inferior to whites

segregationtwoone black, one white13Each Southern states had its own Jim Crow Laws...

CAN YOU THINK HOW AND WHERE BLACK AND WHITE PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE BEEN KEPT SEPARATE OR SEGREGATED??

14EXAMPLES...

Education

[The County Board of Education] shall provide schools of two kinds; those for white children and those for colored children. Texas

15Theatres / Cinemas

Every person...operating...any public hall, theatre, opera house, motion picture show or any place of public entertainment or public assemblage which is attended by both white and colored persons, shall separate the white race and the colored race and shall set apart and designate...certain seats therein to be occupied by white persons and a portion thereof , or certain seats therein, to be occupied by colored persons. Virginia

16Barbers

No colored barber shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls. Georgia

X17Buses

All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races (Alabama).

18Intermarriage

All marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a white person and a person of negro descent to the fourth generation inclusive, are hereby forever prohibited. Florida EVEN NOW SOME PEOPLE ARE AGAINST INTERMARRIAGE

19JIM CROW ETIQUETTE

A Black man not allowed to offer to shake hands with a White man or woman.Not meant to eat together. If did Whites to be served first and a screen put between them.

20JIM CROW ETIQUETTE

Blacks had to address Whites formally, while Whites could call Black people by their first names.

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