black people in the usa
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BLACK PEOPLE IN THE USA. THE JIM CROW LAWS. UNTIL MOST BLACK PEOPLE WERE. 1863. SLAVES. BLACK PEOPLE HAD NOT CHOSEN TO COME TO THE USA. SLAVES. FREE LABOUR FOR PLANTATIONS. THEY WERE TAKEN FROM AFRICA AGAINST THEIR WILL!. THE AFRICANS WERE TRANSPORTED IN APPAULING CONDITIONS. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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BLACK PEOPLE IN THE USA
THE JIM CROW LAWS
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UNTIL MOST BLACK PEOPLE WERE ...
1863 SLAVE
S
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BLACK PEOPLE HAD NOT CHOSEN TO COME TO THE USA...
THEY WERE TAKEN FROM AFRICA AGAINST THEIR WILL!
FREE LABOUR FOR PLANTATIONSSLAVES
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THE AFRICANS WERE TRANSPORTED IN APPAULING CONDITIONS...
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ONCE THEY ARRIVED IN THE USA THEY WERE SOLD AS SLAVES...
THEY WERE SOLD TO WORK ON IN THE STATES.
PLANTATIONSSOUTHERN
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IN 1863 SLAVERY WAS ...ABOLISHED
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In 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...
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CHANGES 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 .
1868 1870
freedomvote
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WHAT WERE THESE JIM
CROW LAWS??
WHAT DO YOU THINK THE JIM CROW LAWS WERE DESIGNED TO DO?
THE JIM CROW LAWS
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THE JIM CROW LAWS...
Laws passed by the states between 1877 and the mid-1960s.
The wanted to over the Blacks
Southern
South keep control
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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???
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WATCH 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 DIDN’T HIRE BLACK PEOPLE.
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SO WHAT WERE THE JIM CROW LAWS?
Jim Crow laws created separate societies:
This is called
Under these laws, Black became legally inferior to whites
segregation
two
one black, one white
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Each 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??
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EXAMPLES...
Education
[The County Board of Education] shall provide schools of two kinds; those for white children and those for colored children. Texas
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Theatres / 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
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Barbers
No colored barber shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls. Georgia
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Buses
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).
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Intermarriage
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
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JIM 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.
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JIM CROW “ETIQUETTE”
Blacks had to address Whites formally, while Whites could call Black people by their first names.