jim+crow+laws

The Fourteenth Amendment was one of three amendments to the Constitution adopted after the Civil War to guarantee black rights. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of African Americans. This prevented people from depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. But most of the southern states refused to ratify this amendment. Due process: the whole fair, legal course of law Equal protection of the laws: it means that the law is colorblind and gender blind.
 * 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? **

**Plessy **deliberately sat in the white section and identified himself as black. He was arrested and his case went all the way to the Supreme Court. He acted like a hero. But unfortunately the Plessy decision set the precedent that "separate" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were "equal." The separate but equal act is a fiction and unconstitutional but it was not then. 
 * 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?  **

**Jim crow was what the actor was called who dressed up like he was black and made fun of them **. His racist plays were a success. Jim Crow was being used to describe laws and customs which oppressed Blacks.
 * 3) The laws developed in the South became known as Jim Crow laws. Who was this Jim Crow fellow? Did he write the laws? **

**These laws made it unlawful for our children to go to schools not ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">established for the education of children of African descent. They made it bad to have friendly interaction of any kind with white people. It would be impossible form me to even think of marrying a white person. I can’t move into the better neighborhoods because they are occupied by whites. I have wait for hours to get served as whites just keep coming into the restraint. It would also be bad for me to kiss my loved ones in public, because I might offend someone. Lord, have they ever thought of how we feel!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">4) What are some specific examples of the Jim Crow laws from southern states? How did the laws affect you? **

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">It was all segregated! **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5) What did Jim Crow America look like in the 1900s? What are some images that can help explain the realities of the time? **

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">Nine black men were accused of rape of 2 white women they had never seen before. They were all sentenced to death. But the case made the north mad because it was so unfair. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the convictions. It was so unfair! <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">6) What happened in the Scottsboro Case? How did it make you feel as an African American in the South?<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; color: #001ee6;">  **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">7) Why should anyone care about your life during Jim Crow America? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">This time changed our nation. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> It made it us live up to the US constitution. Now we can share drinking fountains. Ever one is equal