Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow Laws

legal segregation in the US

• Lou Vigne
• Audrey Jalouneix

Jim Crow laws were State and local laws that enforced racial segregation against Black people in the U.S.A. They obstruct the american constitutionnal laws and their main principal is "separate but equal". This racial segregation is extended to public facilities and transportation.

Timeline

Slavery is abolished at the end of the American Civil War, it is the beginning of segregation

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the civil right Acts =end of Jim Crow laws

President Harry S. Truman desegregated the armed services (military)

1964-1965

1865

1948

1954

1941

The U.S Supreme Court declared that school segregation is unconstitutionnal

Thomas D. Rice performed the song "Jump Jim Crow" in Blackface

1890-1920: Segregation is customary and completely normal

In Florida, any marriage between a White and a Black people up to four generations is forbidden. In hospitals, white people have the priority in front of black people in any case. Black people vote but their votes don't count. It reduces social interations.

Examples

Origins of the law's name

It is from the song "Jump Jim Crow", which critics populist politics. It is a blackface song and dance.

End of the laws

In 1954, the Supreme court juged school segregation unconstitutionnal. 1964-1965: The president Lyndon B. Johnson abolished the laws with the Civil Rights Acts. There where several activists against the laws but they were assaulted, arrested or killed.

Quiz!

Who abolished Jim Crows Laws ?

1. Lyndon B. Johnson
2. Harry S. Truman
3. Martin Luther King

1. Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson with Martin Luther King

What happend to those who protested ?

1. They were expelled from the country
2. They were killed, assaulted and arrested
3. Nothing, America is a free country

2- They were killed, assaulted and arrested

Thomas D. Rice was

1. A racist actor
2. A singer, ambassador of peace
3. A famous politician

1. A racist actor

His Blackface

The laws were first abolished ...

1. In South Carolina
2. In middle School
3. In armed services

3. In armed Services

Jim Crow Laws lasted...

1. 150 years
2. 74 years
3. 100 years

3. 100 years

1865-(1964-1965)

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