Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow Laws

• Jim Crow was a character in a 1828 ______________ that was made popular by a white comedian, Thomas (Daddy) Rice

• This song made fun of black people• The term Jim Crow was then used for a set of

_________________ that were passed by the Southern States

Jim Crow

"Weel about and turn aboutAnd do jis so,Eb'ry time I weel aboutAnd jump Jim Crow."

Jim Crow

• These laws discriminated against blacks and established ____________________

• Segregation meant that __________ people were kept separate from __________

• Blacks were not allowed to use the same public facilities as whites and were treated as 2nd class citizens

                                                                                

Jim Crow Laws

• ____________________, a black man, challenged a Louisiana railroad company because they made him sit in a ‘___________________’ carriage

• The Supreme Court supported the railroad company and in 1896 declared the laws ____________

• This allowed the ________________ States to make up more laws

Jim Crow Laws

• __________________ between blacks and whites was illegal in some states

• They were not allowed to use the same hotels, theatres and restaurants as whites

• There were black only carriages on trains and they had to sit in the __________________

Jim Crow Laws

• There was segregation in the armed forces• There were _______________ residential

areas and schools• The ______________________________ kept

black people’s blood segregated in blood banks until the 1940s.

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