Jim Crow Laws by Shirell Mollo

School textbooks may not be used interchangeably between white and colored schools

2025-09-25 16:00:03 UTC

Textbooks that are simply touched by colored children aren't allowed to be used by white children, and vice versa

Alabama - A Black and White person are forbidden to play pool together.

2025-09-25 16:00:31 UTC

Out of every recreational game, pool is where the line is drawn. They can play chess, the Landlord's Game (aka Monopoly), any other game, but not pool. There is no reason to isolate this game specifically.

Alabama- No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed. Ismail

2025-09-25 16:02:51 UTC

If a person is hurt, they can't be helped by a nurse because a white women can't be in a room with a black man. This could cause someone to die

Arizona: The marriage of a person of Caucasian blood with a Negro shall be null and void.

2025-09-25 16:07:46 UTC

I feel like this law is very significant and invalid, of course, as you can't just forbid something for no apparent reason. What race marries which shouldn't be the business of others or the government.

Education in Mississippi

2025-09-25 16:07:51 UTC

In Mississippi, separate schools should be maintained for the children of white and colored races.

Mississippi: There shall be maintained by the governing authorities of every hospital maintained by the state for treatment of white and colored patients separate entrances for white and colored patients and visitors, and such entrances shall be used by the race only for which they are prepared.

2025-09-25 16:09:11 UTC

In Mississippi, White People and Colored People both have separate entrances for hospitals, and those entrances can ONLY be used by the people of that certain race.

North Carolina- School textbooks shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them.

2025-09-25 16:11:49 UTC

Textbooks are not allowed to be even touched between races... which is ridiculous. A textbook is a textbook, and forms of education should be accessible to anyone.

Housing in Louisiana:

2025-09-25 16:12:07 UTC

Anyone can rent part of such building to a black person or a black family when such building is already in whole or in part in occupancy by a white person or white family shall be guilty of a less serious criminal offense.

Housing in Mississippi

281168_2 — 2025-09-25 16:12:42 UTC

The prison warden shall see that the white convicts shall have separate apartments for both eating and sleeping from the negro convicts.

Alabama - Train conductors are required to assign a passenger to a designated seat or car where there is a partition that divides where a black or white person sits.

2025-09-25 16:13:39 UTC

This law bothers me the most because it seems to be one of the most inconvenient laws and is also one of the most blatant forms of ostracizing black people in society. Working people have to go through many challenges just trying to follow rules before even starting their work day.

In Florida schools for white children and for black children will be conducted separatly

2025-09-25 16:14:35 UTC

In Florida children of color and white children must be kept in different schools and they are each given a different quality of education.

Alabama- All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races.

2025-09-25 16:14:35 UTC

This law states that white people and colored people can't be in the same waiting room when getting transportation and can't get a ticket through the same window. This is so pointless and unfair especially because its just a ticket and they should be able get it from one window and wait in the same room.

Louisiana: Any person...who shall rent any part of any such building to a negro person or a negro family when such building is already in whole or in part in occupancy by a white person or white family shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

2025-09-25 16:18:18 UTC

This is vile because what if a negro family needs a place to stay then they aren't able to stay there which is very inconvience. Because it stops a family from having a house which isn't very fair or equal.

The schools for white children and the schools for black children shall be conducted separately.

2025-09-25 16:18:24 UTC

Schools are children's second home, and greatly influence the upbringing of the child. To prevent diversity in schools is to alienate races from each other, further dividing the two.

Freedom of speech

2025-09-26 00:31:17 UTC

Any person guilty of publishing or circulating matter urging or presenting arguments in favor or social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

This is bothers me because in countries like the U.S. everyone has the right to speak their mind, especially about important things like fairness and equality. This statement says you could be arrested just for sharing your opinion, which goes against our basic rights.

Mississippi: The marriage of a white person with a negro or mulatto or person who shall have one-eighth or more of negro blood, shall be unlawful and void.

2025-09-26 14:47:25 UTC

The law doesn't allow "white" people to mix with other "colors." This law is bothersome because it's unfair to separate "colored" people from "white people, just because of the color of their skin.

Alabama: No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed.

2025-09-26 15:06:42 UTC

This is the law that is most bothersome to me because what if someone is actually hurt and in serious situations of help, it's so unfair for anyone not to receive help just because they are colored. They colored would help the white people so why can't the whites help the colored.

Florida: All marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a white person and a person of negro descent to the fourth generation inclusive, are hereby forever prohibited.

2025-09-28 04:20:51 UTC

If a white person wants to marry a person of color, they can not because other people see it as wrong. Why should they have to change their decision over how other people feel? Why does it matter to others?

Oklahoma

2025-09-29 01:41:02 UTC

Oklahoma's Segregated Telephone Booths

Oklahoma used their power in the Corporation Commission to require separate booths for white and Black people, but only after the request was raised by the public in a particular town.

Wyoming: All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mulattos, Mongolians, or Malaya hereafter contracted in the State of Wyoming are, and shall be, illegal and void.

2025-09-29 01:56:16 UTC

This law prohibits marriages solely due to race. I think this is unjust because race should play no matter in whether a marriage is void or not, making this law unfair due to its restriction in the personal lives of Americans.

Alabama- It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards.

2025-09-29 02:32:59 UTC

This really shocked me, as even just recreation or things to do for fun needed to be separated, and to still enforce this notion of white supremacy even though blacks have been already oppressed and cut off enough.

Louisiana: The board of trustees shall maintain a separate building, on separate grounds, for the admission, care, instruction, and support of all blind persons of the colored or black race

2025-09-29 13:27:32 UTC

This is sad to know that black and white people couldn't interact due to segergation. It's even more sad to know that they received different/seperate health care, which black people were less likely to be treated as properly or fair as a white person.