The Jim Crow Era

• A backlash post-reconstruction to the growing rights of Black Americas

• Jim Crow Character — White men who act a racialised variety shows alongside folk songs who put on black face paint and red lips to play as a black character

• JIM CROW: systematic effort, largely in southern states, to limit the rights and responsibilities. This leads to legislation such as separation, voting limits, and other laws to create this system. Additionally, there is a social understanding and unwritten rules that Black Americans are expected to behave by and abide by.

  • he listed them by 4, so remember that.

• Jim Crow Laws: Sepration on every aspect of life, specifically physical locations. The laws were very pervasive

Tennessee’s Army and Navy

• Belt revolvers and first trial of gun control laws in the

• Tennessee passed law that these guns are the only ones people cannot carry. Anything smaller you CANNOT have

  • pocket guns were cheaper and easier to conceal. Typically, this was made to effect black americans (and poor whites) access to firearms and self defense

Jim Crow Social etiquette

• xxx describe the affects of this and some examples

Race Riots

• Lynching: xx

• Typically occurs when people are on edge and typically in hot summer months. Local police, if involved, are the causing or they continue the mob (maybe even watching)

  • Also started by rumours

Plessy v Ferguson (1896)

• Basics:

• Outcome: The interpretation of the law/ the court ruled “seprate but equal” due to

• Dissenting argument:

• Majority opinion :

Overcoming Jim Crow

Booker T. Washington: A man who was born into enslavement and soon freed at a young age. He established a school, the Tuskegee Institute, [read quote in slide and interpret views and ideology]

W.E.B. Du Bois: Born free, post civil war. He was the first black man to graduate from Harvard and founded the NAACP. He is more of a hands-on political activist. He probed the that different means and strategies will allow different