15 FACTS ABOUT JIM CROW LAWS

5 FACTS ABOUT THIS TOPIC

• Started form 1880's to 1960's
• "Colored" people can not talk to the superior race "whites"
• Allowed legal punishments to "colored" people
• "Separate but equal" was often used to justify the Jim Crow laws
• Four million "colored" people moved the west to get away from the Jim Crow laws

BLACK CODES

• Exclusively in the south
• Harsher than the Jim Crow Laws
• Made it to where black people can get arrested for almost anything
• The black codes penalized black people for changing their job
• Limited access to courts, denied the right to testify against the whites

JIM CROW LAWS

• Blacks and whites cannot play together
• Named after a part of a song while the writer appeared on stage as a stereotypical black character
• Black man can't hold his hand out to shake a white mans hand
• Black can't teach a white person