JIM CROW LAWS
Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation in the U.S. South from 1877 to the 1950s, leading to inferior treatment of African Americans. Examples show the stark disparities in treatment between Blacks and Whites, such as in public facilities and rights on the road.
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JIM CROW LAWS - By Fiona, Eva, Jessy
WHAT IS JIM CROW LAWS? Jim Crow law, in U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s. The term came to be a derogatory epithet for African Americans and a designation for their segregated life.
In legal theory, blacks received "separate but equal" treatment under the law in actuality, public facilities for blacks were nearly always inferior to those for whites, when they existed at all.
EXAMPLES Salary respect titles If a black person and a white person met at a four way stop, the white person always had the right of way. B lack individuals couldn't even insinuate that a white person was lying
CONNECTIONS WITH THE BOOK just one black character, Calpurnia in the first eight chapters with good values took cared for Scout s whole family taught Scout to read and write. the maid in the Scout s home. all the people in Scout s family treated Cal very well. they did respect, appreciate, maintain and love her we couldn t operate a single day live without Cal. You think about how much Cal does for you, and you mind her, you hear?
