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__Jim Crow __

**To set the stage for the civil rights movement, you must first understand the environment of segregation in the United States in the first half of the 20th century. What was life like in Jim Crow America? Cut and paste this information into a new page in your Unit 8 Online ISN. You (and your partner, if you have one) are African Americans who have lived through the era of Jim Crow in America.** **Using the links provided in this activity, respond to the “oral history questions” in first person** **. You can do this in Word by copying this document onto a new** **document** **, completing it using the resources below, and cutting and pasting it into a new page on your notebook.**

**1) Right after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment was ratified. What did the 14th Amendment provide for African Americans? What does “due process” and “equal protection of the laws” mean?** [|__**14th LINK**__] [|It granted citizenship to all of us former slaves. Equal protection under laws] means that they are to be treated by the laws and courts and due process means the government must follow certain procedures that have been established by law.

**2) Unfortunately, your equal rights were challenged by the Supreme Court in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. What do you remember about the facts, decision, and impact of this case?** [|__**Plessy LINK**__] [|I remember that Plessy was a man who sat in a White car even though her was colored. He was taken to court and argued that it violated the 13th and 14th ammendments. The court ruled that it didn’t violate the ammendments and Plessy lost. This decision of the court made it so that almost every facility was “separate but equal.”]

**3) The laws developed in the South became known as Jim Crow laws. Who was this Jim Crow fellow? Did he write the laws?** [| __**Jim Crow LINK**__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Jim Crow was a person in a play that was offensive to me b ecause iot made fun of African Americans. He obviously did not write the laws that took away many of our rights.]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**4) What are some specific examples of the Jim Crow laws from southern states? How did the laws affect you?** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__**Jim Crow Laws LINK 1**__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> **/** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__**Jim Crow Laws LINK 2**__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**/** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__**Jim Crow Laws LINK 3**__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|We had to call whites by Mrs., Mr. or Ms., we couldn’t shake hands with whites, and we always had to ride in the back of the car if a white person was driving, to name a few. It made it very difficult to feel like we had the same rights with out new ammendments.]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**5) What did Jim Crow America look like in the 1900s? What are some images that can help explain the realities of the time?** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__**Jim Crow Images LINK 1**__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**/** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__**Jim Crow Images LINK 2**__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were signs everywhere that told us where we had to go and where the whites would go or sit. Mainly all of the images of signs to show segregation like colored and white drinking fountains really explain how our lives were. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9 young African American boys were wrongfully accused of raping 2 women on a train. All of them except the 12 year old were sentenced to death. It was horrible and really made me feel like we were unfairly accused and treated in the South.
 * 6) What happened in the Scottsboro Case? How did it make you feel as an African American in the South?** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__**Scottsboro LINK**__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**7) Why should anyone care about your lilfe during Jim Crow America?** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__**Why should I care? Link**__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It shows the power of the whites and all of their anti-African American feelings but also it shows the power of the African Americans to resist and protest.