The Jim Crow Laws

The Origin of the Name

• The name came a song made by Thomas Darthhouse Rice in the 19th century
• The person made a skit about his encounter with a negro singing this song
• In the performance he portrayed an exaggerated stereotypical black person  
• Eve putting black cork on his skin to look like a black person
• After this skit, The Name became a collective name for African-Americans

the jim crow laws

• The laws started in the 1880's keep going until the 1960's
• It was a SET major SEGREGATION LAWS
• MANY OF THE LAWS WERE DIFFERENT ACROSS THE NATION FROM ALBAMA TO CA 
• SOME OF THE MOST COMMON TYPES BEING  

the different states that used the laws

• Many of the states used the Jim crow Laws
• Many of the states used it from alabama to california
• 34 out of the 50 states used the laws

Examples of the jim crow laws in Alabama

• Here are some of the laws in alabama
• Separate schools for white and colored children in 1901
• A white person can't leave their spouse for a Negro in 1923
• A sheriff can't put a negro and white person in the same jail cell
• Black and whites can't be play pool togther 

More jim crow laws

• Every railroad company must have sufficent waiting rooms
• each for separate races
• White and black can't gamble, play cards, and such togther
• Whites and colors shal have separte bathrooms

Effects of the laws to African Americans

• Educational and economic opportunities became greatly restricted
• The blacks were given an unfair trail with a white lynch mon
• Blacks weren't allow to eat with whites and vice versa
• They were discouraged from voting by white supreamists 

CItations

• "Jim Crow Laws." Miller's To Kill a Mockingbird -. Web. 23 Jan. 2015. .
• "Racial Segregation in the American South: Jim Crow Laws." Http://find.galegroup.com/. Web. 27 Jan. 2015.

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