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It was a law that was created after 1890 in the southern states

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That the people with white skin color and the black skin color was separate, but they weren’t equal. For example, the black people didn’t have the right to vote. They were also separated in schools, and here was it also not equal.

The schools with the black people did only get discarded books and lap equipment from white schools. Until 1947 was the Major baseball league segregated in a “Negro league” and a “white league”.

Also in Hollywood they were segregated. In some films there could only be white people, and in other films there could only be black people.  So they were separated, but the equal part was not real.

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The intent and effect of such rules was to prevent poor and illiterate African-American former slaves and their descendants from voting, but without denying poor and illiterate whites the right to vote.

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On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery. By refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955. She stood up for her rights, by literally refusing to stand up. black seamstress Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States.

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The first black man to win an oscar was James Basket in 1948, the 20th of March.
Since the first movie theaters was made in 1860´s, it took 88 years for a black man to get a reward like this

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Examples of  Jim Crow Laws:

Restaurants:

It is against the law to be dining in the same room as a black person. Whites and blacks shall be separated either by a floor upward, and the distance from the primary dining room, and to the blacks dining room has to be 7 feet or more.

Intermarriage:

All marriages between a white person, and a person of black descent, is “forever” prohibited.

Education:

There shall by schools for white children, and a separate school for black children.

Cohabitation (samliv):

If a white person, spends the night with a black person in the same room, they will both get either a fine of 500$, or 12 months in prison.

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- Hollywood limiting African Americans to go to the movie theaters and either be part of all black movies, or have domestic roles because of the segregation.

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The civil rights act - The civil rights act was enacted in 1866. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race or color. - The civil rights act was the first law ever made to define citizenship. The civil rights act’s purpose was to assure the citizens were protected equally by the law. - The act was mainly to protect the right of the African American, who was broad to America under the civil war. The act made it possible for the African American to own personal property, give evidence in court and so on. - Anyone who denied these rights to an African American would be given a fine at approximate 1000 us.

NAACP is an organization an it means ”The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.” They have this mission to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination This organization were founded in 1909 in New York. it was both black and white, who fought for equality. Doing 1900 century, the organization grew stronger with the years.

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Jump Jim Crow
Jump Jim Crow is a song and a dance from 1828, done in black facepaint "Blackface" by the white comedian Thomas Dartmouth "daddy" Rice. It was inspired by a song and dance made by a physically disabled African slave named Jim Cuff og Jim Crow.
The song became a hit and was performed all over the country under the name "Daddy Jim Crow"
The song was a step towards a new pupular tradition, based on the imitation of Blacks.
As the "daddy Jim Crow" became famous, Jim Crow became a derogatory word, meaning African American in 1838, and from this spirred the racial law of segregation known as Jim Crow Laws.

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What does “de jure segregation” mean?

De jure segregation is a Law which backed up the separation of the races. It was a law, that made it illegal for black and white people to be together at public spaces and so on. White and black people had therefore their own school, their own entrances in public buildings, separate restrooms and drinking fountains.

What was the dispute in the Plessy v. Ferguson trial? And what was the outcome of the trial?

The dispute was that by law, white and black people couldn’t be together. They had the same rights, but yet still they couldn’t be at some places at the same time. Homer Plessy took this trial to the Supreme Court but they refused to change on the “separate but equal” law.

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Synes det er lidt pinligt, så vil helst bare alene

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What was the role of Hollywood in termas of upholding segregation in the US?? 

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What was the role of Hollywood in termas of upholding segregation in the US?? 

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Alexander, Søren, Matthias

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Magnus, Andreas, Anders O

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Marcus J, Shamel, Cecilie

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Jonas, Frederik

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Laura, Marcus, Nikolaj

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Jacob, Anders, Thomas