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For a longer explanation of the basics of Jim Crow laws, watch this video.

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Who or what was Jim Crow? Kim discusses the origin of Jim Crow segregation in the American South.

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Jim Crow laws: Explora Secondary Schools

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The origin of Jim Crow goes back to the 1820s and is credited to a song-and-dance man, Thomas Dartmouth 'Daddy' Rice. He implied that he had seen a limping black slave singing the following verse:
'Come listen all you galls and boys Weel about and turn around and do jis so, Eb'ry time I weel about and jump Jim Crow.'
In 1828 Rice was the first man to blacken his face, dress as a plantation slave and perform such a routine, using his own compositions. As he gained fame he expanded his repertoire and gradually penned forty-four verses, most of them extremely insensitive. Indeed, his mockery of black people grew to the extent that his derogatory Jim Crow verses helped deepen the gulf between black and white communities. In 1838, the Southern States passed various laws of racial segregation, focused against the black sectors. By the turn of the century those laws were called the Jim Crow laws, both north and south.
Segregation
Between the 1880s and the 1960s the laws expanded. Many cities and states were able to impose legal punishments on people, for example, on those who were deemed to be consorting with or marrying with other races.

In the southern states, in particular, the authorities were extremely strict. In white hospitals for example, only white nurses could tend white patients. There were different sectors for whites and blacks: trains, buses, restaurants, schools, mental hospitals, parks, cemeteries, and many more.
Early attempts
In 1875 an attempt to revert the Jim Crow laws to give black people equal rights as the whites in the southern states was passed but had very little effect. In 1883 the Supreme Court repealed the 1875 act as it was deemed unconstitutional. In essence, Congress wanted complete control over corporations and people in the private spheres of the Southern States. Since Congress consisted primary of whites; they had the power to rebuff any prospective changes in the Jim Crow laws, and did so again in 1892 and 1908.

The Jim Crow laws were finally abolished on 2 July 1964 when President Lyndon Johnson historically signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It invoked the commerce clause, outlawing discrimination in public accommodations. The Voting Rights Act followed in 1965; effectively giving black people the vote.
Stella Milner
See also Stella's article on the Rev Ralph Abernathy.

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The Jim Crow laws - a brief summary - History in an Hour

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The Jim Crow Laws were created in 1876 simply to segregate black people from the white population. Some English Dictionaries define 'Jim Crow' as the name for an implement that can straighten or bend iron rails; or, along with 'Jim ... Continue reading →

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In the South, Jim Crow Laws were strongly enforced and the laws made it difficult for African- Americans to live. African-Americans wanted better lives and felt that they should travel to the North to get them. This traveling sometimes brought danger and risk to them.

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How Jim Crow Laws Were Enforced

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Jim Crow laws, in U.S. history, statutes enacted by Southern states and municipalities, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between blacks and whites. The name is believed to be derived from a character in a popular minstrel song. The Supreme Court ruling in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson that separate facilities for whites and blacks were constitutional encouraged the passage of discriminatory laws that wiped out the gains made by blacks during Reconstruction. Railways and streetcars, public waiting rooms, restaurants, boardinghouses, theaters, and public parks were segregated; separate schools, hospitals, and other public institutions, generally of inferior quality, were designated for blacks. By World War I, even places of employment were segregated, and it was not until after World War II that an assault on Jim Crow in the South began to make headway. In 1950 the Supreme Court ruled that the Univ. of Texas must admit a black, Herman Sweatt, to the law school, on the grounds that the state did not provide equal education for him. This was followed (1954) by the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., declaring separate facilities by race to be unconstitutional. Blacks in the South used legal suits, mass sit-ins, and boycotts to hasten desegregation. A march on Washington by over 200,000 in 1963 dramatized the movement to end Jim Crow. Southern whites often responded with violence, and federal troops were needed to preserve order and protect blacks, notably at Little Rock, Ark. (1957), Oxford, Miss. (1962), and Selma, Ala. (1965). The Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 finally ended the legal sanctions to Jim Crow. See affirmative action; civil rights; integration.

See C. V. Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1966); L. F. Litwack, How Free Is Free? The Long Death of Jim Crow (2009).

Jim Crow the name of a black character in a 19th-century plantation song, with the refrain 'Wheel about and turn about and jump Jim Crow'; the name was also used in the stage presentation of a song and dance act first performed by Thomas D. Rice (1808-60). From the mid 20th century, Jim Crow was also used to denote racial discrimination, especially through segregation of black people in the US.
Jim Crow laws laws which formerly ensured the segregation of black people in the US.

Jim Crow / ˈjim ˈkrō/ * n. 1. the former practice of segregating black people in the US: [as adj.] Jim Crow laws. ∎ offens. a black person. 2. an implement for straightening steel bars or bending rails by screw pressure.

Jim Crow Laws Laws enacted in southern US states after Reconstruction, enforcing racial segregation in public places and on public transport. They were progressively overturned by the civil rights legislation of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Jim Crow laws, in U.S. history, statutes enacted by Southern states and municipalities, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between blacks and whites. The name is believed to be derived from a character in a popular minstrel song. The Supreme Court ruling in 1896 in Plessy v.

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What was Jim Crow - Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State University

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In 1890, Louisiana passed the "Separate Car Law," which purported to aid passenger comfort by creating "equal but separate" cars for blacks and whites. This was a ruse. No public accommodations, including railway travel, provided blacks with equal facilities.

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Moore, Jim. “What Is the Difference between Slavery and Jim Crow Laws?” Quora, 5ADAD, www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-slavery-and-Jim-Crow-laws.

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The name Jim Crow came from an old song. Other meanings to the name relate to a slave on a plantation.

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The name Jim Crow came from an old song. Other meanings to the name relate to a slave on a plantation.

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Hotchkiss, Craig. “Huck, Jim, and Jim Crow.” Welcome to the Mark Twain House & Museum - Education Programs, Mark Twain House & Museum, www.marktwainhouse.org/programs/neh_teacher_workshop.php.

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Objectives of the Jim Crow Museum Contact Dr. David Pilgrim, Curator pilgrimd@ferris.edu Collect, exhibit and preserve objects and collections related to racial segregation, civil rights and anti-Black caricatures. Promote the scholarly examination of historical and contemporary expressions of racism. Serve as a teaching resource for Ferris State University courses which deal, directly or indirectly, with the issues of race and ethnicity.

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