https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2 An Overview en-us 2019-01-09 18:57:58 UTC 2025-11-23 15:41:28 UTC hello@padlet.com 100156449 https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/318957960 1877-1953]]> 2019-01-09 19:01:35 UTC https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/318957960 100156449 https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/318963422 Laws that segregated blacks & whites in the South.]]> 2019-01-09 19:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/318963422 100156449 https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/318965561 Jim Crow was a fictional caricature of a clumsy, dimwitted black slave played by white actor Thomas Dartmouth Rice.]]> 2019-01-09 19:14:25 UTC https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/318965561 100156449 https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/319101446 With the majority of Southern states’ government being run by whites, they passed laws that made it impossible for black Americans to participate in any decisions regarding the laws that discriminated them. These laws were enforced following the Reconstruction, therefore the racist mentality was still prominent in the majority of White America.]]> 2019-01-10 07:00:10 UTC https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/319101446 100156449 https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/319103379  Whites were given a political advantage therefore furthering the segregational laws passed. Even if these laws were never established, the segregation would have occurred naturally as whites were rarely tried legally for crimes against blacks. The utter hatred that was thrown towards blacks would’ve been enough to drive them away from white communities.]]> 2019-01-10 07:07:16 UTC https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/319103379 100156449 https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/319108387 - “All marriages between a negro and a white person, or anyone of negro descent to the fourth generation inclusive, are hereby forever prohibited”
- “ It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with eachother at any game of pool or billiards.”
- “Every employer of white or negro males shall provide for such white or negro males reasonably accessible and separate toilet facilities.”]]> 2019-01-10 07:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/319108387 100156449 https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/319117388 African-American Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks. Plessy argued that his constitutional rights were being violated yet he was rejected by the Supreme Court. The court ruled a law that ‘implies merely a legal distinction’ between whites and blacks was not unconstitutional. ]]> 2019-01-10 07:57:59 UTC https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/319117388 100156449 https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/319118276 As a result, restrictive Jim Crow legislation and separate public accommodations became normalized.]]> 2019-01-10 08:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/319118276 100156449 https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/319124363 2019-01-10 08:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/100156449/ogmfez2zq0o2/wish/319124363