Jim Crow Review

Purpose of Jim Crow laws?

To prove white people superior

Booker T. Washington deets

He believed the only way colored people could become equal to whites was if they were equal economically

Effects of Plessy v Ferguson

Separate but equal

13th Amendment

Abolish slavery

14th Amendment

Born in the U.S. = U.S. citizen

All citizens treated equally

15th Amendment

All citizens are protected by the law

Racial Etiquette details - 3 things… give specific examples

Blacks cannot shake hands with whites

Blacks are to remove their hats when passing a white person

Blacks have to move off the sidewalk to make room for whites

Enforcement Acts - what are they and did they work?

Federal crime to interfere with a citizen's right to vote

Not guaranteed right to vote

Tuskegee Institute details

Created by Booker T. Washington and was a way to give blacks a clear and strong career path to raise economically

Plessy v. Ferguson famous quote or saying

Separate but equal

Things done to blacks in the South to keep them from voting

Literacy tests, poll tax, grandfather clause

What was the ruling in Plessy v Ferguson?

Supreme court deemed that segregation is not unfair

Poll Tax deets and reason why it was instituted

Tax on voting, many blacks couldn’t afford it

Purpose of white supremecist groups

to use violence to intimidate blacks

Ida B. Wells deets

Black journalist who exposed lynching

Enforcement dates of Jim Crow Laws

1877-1965

Who or what was Jim Crow?

A black minstrel

Interracial marriages

People of different races and backgrounds getting married (strictly forbidden/unheard of)

The “Lynching Capital”

Mississippi

What is lynching?

Informal trail that often involved violence towards blacks and sometimes ended fatally