Jim+Crow

=JIM CROW =

** 1) Right after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment was ratified. What did the 14th Amendment provide for African Americans? What does “due process” and “equal protection of the laws” mean? ** The 14th amendment guaranteed black rights. "Due process" is the american legal principle that the government must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person according to the law. "Equal protection of the laws" requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people within its jurisdiction.

===** 2) Unfortunately, your equal rights were challenged by the Supreme Court in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. What do you remember about the facts, decision, and impact of this case? ** A man named Plessy decided to sit in the white car on a train, in that state they have a law for keeping they're segregated train cars. He was arrested because of his light complexion he wasn't allowed in the white car so he was arrested. His lawyer said that it was against the 13th and 14th amendments, but Plessy still lost. This led to the "Seperate but Equal" doctrine.===

===** 3) The laws developed in the South became known as Jim Crow laws. Who was this Jim Crow fellow? Did he write the laws? ** Jim crow is not really a person. The name of Jim Crow is used to describe the segregation laws.===

===** 4) What are some specific examples of the Jim Crow laws from southern states? How did the laws affect you? ** ===

===“It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other in any game of cards or dice, dominoes or checkers.” **—Birmingham, Alabama, 1930** === This law greatly affected me and my kids. My kids would've enjoyed going to the park across the street and playing games with all of the children they're age, I've never had the strength to tell my kids that they were different, and that it was against the law to play with white children. They would never be able to go out in public again knowing that they're not allowed to talk or play with the white kids. 

===** 5) What did Jim Crow America look like in the 1900s? What are some images that can help explain the realities of the time? ** === Seperate theatres for the colored and the white.

They compare us to dogs, i am a human being, not an animal!

Whites had they're own bathrooms, is there a law against the violation of feelings?       ===** 6) What happened in the Scottsboro Case? How did it make you feel as an African American in the South? ** === ===Nine young men were falsely acused of raping two white women. The women agreed to testify against the men, even knowing that they didn't do anything, this shows that our equality, wasn't really equal, nobody stood up for the black men. ===

===** 7) Why should anyone care about your life during Jim Crow America? ** I believe that Jim Crow America set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement. So you should care because if Jim Crow America never existed then there would still be discrimination and segregation today.===