Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins · What were Jim Crow laws? From the 1880s into the...
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SIGNS OF JIM CROW
from the Library of Congress Collection
Produced by Carole Weatherford
Author,
Freedom on the Menu:
The Greensboro Sit-Ins
Co-produced by Jeffery Weatherford
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What were Jim Crow laws?
From the 1880s into the 1960s, most American
states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow"
laws (so called after a black character in minstrel
shows). From Delaware to California, and from
North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too)
could impose legal punishments on people for
mingling with members of another race. The most
common types of laws forbade intermarriage and
ordered business owners and public institutions to
keep blacks and whites separated.
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Some Facilities that Were Separate:
Bus station waiting rooms and ticket windows
Railroad cars or coaches
Restaurants and lunch counters
Schools and public parks
Restrooms and water fountains
Sections of movie theaters
There were even separate cemeteries
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At the bus station, Durham, North Carolina, 1940.
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Greyhound bus terminal, Memphis, Tennessee. 1943.
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A rest stop for bus passengers on the way from
Louisville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee, with
separate entrance for Blacks. 1943.
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A sign at bus station, Rome, Georgia. 1943.
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A highway sign advertising tourist cabins for
Blacks, South Carolina. 1939.
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Cafe, Durham, North Carolina. 1939.
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Drinking fountain on the courthouse lawn, Halifax,
North Carolina. 1938.
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Movie theater’s "Colored" entrance, Belzoni,
Mississippi. 1939.
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The Rex theater for colored people,
Leland, Mississippi. June 1937.
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Restaurant, Lancaster, Ohio. 1938.
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Water cooler in the street car terminal, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma. 1939.
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Sign above movie theater, Waco, Texas. 1939.
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Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee. 1939.
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Related Titles by Carole Boston Weatherford
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About Carole Boston Weatherford
Weatherford’s books have won the Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King Award,
NAACP Image Award, Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, Carter G. Woodson
Award from National Council for the Social Studies, and North Carolina Juvenile
Literature Award and SCBWI Golden Kite honors. A college professor, she
presents school and teacher training programs nationwide. Her 40 books include:
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
A Negro League Scrapbook
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People
Becoming Billie Holiday
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Contact: 336-870-3503; cbwpoet@gmailcom
cbweatherford.com
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Picture Books on Segregation & Civil Rights
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