Jim+Crow+Laws



=﻿ __Jim Crow Laws__= Jim Crow laws are local and state laws that "prevented" segregation in the U.S. in 1876 and 1965. They really just made races into seperate lives. Usaully the white race had more advantages and better things then people of different races. Examples of Jim Crow Laws are:segregation of public schools, public places, public transportation, the segregation of restrooms, restaurants and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. Even the military was segregated because of these laws. ======== ==== Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border-states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. The Jim Crow system was undergirded by the following beliefs or rationalizations: Whites were superior to Blacks in all important ways; including but not limited to intelligence, morality, and civilized behaivior; sexual relations between Blacks and Whites would produce a mongrel race which would destroy America; Treating Blacks as equals would encourage interracial sexual unions; any activity which suggested social equality encouraged interracial sexual relations; if necessary, violence must be used to keep Blacks at the bottom of the racial hierarchy. ==== ==== Jim Crow Laws are really racist laws. Hitler is an example of someone that is racist. Hitler was racist against gays and jews. His reason might have been different, but they have similar concepts. The South was rascist against blacks, and the nazis were racist against the jews. ==== ==== From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows). From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white clientele separated. Here is a sampling of laws from various states: **Nurses** No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed. //Alabama// **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// **Railroads** The conductor of each passenger train is authorized and required to assign each passenger to the car or the division of the car, when it is divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger belongs. //Alabama// **Restaurants** It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment. //Alabama// **Pool and Billiard Rooms** It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards. //Alabama// **Toilet Facilities, Male** Every employer of white or negro males shall provide for such white or negro males reasonably accessible and separate toilet facilities.====

__Answers To Questions:__ ====White people believed they were better and more powerful but the blacks would keep rising up to destroy everything in America. White and Blacks could not get married because there was a law against it. Whites were treated better then blacks, they got better schools and all that. Blacks were made fun of, discriminated, and down graded in other words.==== The children were easier targeted than the adults because the white people were superior. Schools, bars, resturaunts, theaters, any place that whites were blacks really shouldnt have been there. There were too many rebellious acts to record so to find the exact number is impossible. Congressman Steve Cohen passed the laws while many other congressman wrote them. Whites were treated better than blacks. They got better schools, and all that. The blacks got dicriminated and downgraded. The fact that the Jom Crow laws being named after a Negro is very ironic because they were being mean. There was no such thing as a relationship between a black and white because they were overall banned. Black schools have black teachers, and white schools have white teachers. The strongest law that affected most of the people was the one that separated whites from blacks all together. Education: The schools for white children and the schools for negro children shall be conducted separately.