Jim Crow

Examples of Jim Crow in the following topics:

• Jim Crow Laws

  • Jim Crow laws, enacted between 1876 and 1965, mandated de jure racial segregation in the public facilities of southern states.
  • The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.
  • Generally, the remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
  • Jim Crow laws established "separate but equal" facilities.
  • Evaluate how Jim Crow Laws effected the lives of African Americans during the early 20th century.

• The Spread of Segregation

  • Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.
  • The origin of the phrase "Jim Crow" has often been attributed to "Jump Jim Crow," a song-and-dance caricature of blacks performed by white actor Thomas D.
  • Cover to early edition of Jump Jim Crow sheet music.
  • This image was highly influential on later Jim Crow and minstrelsy images.
  • Summarize the voting restrictions and Jim Crow laws implemented during Reconstruction.

• Jim Crow Laws

  • Enacted between 1876 and 1965, Jim Crow laws formalized racial segregation in the Southern States, systematizing a number of economic, educational, and social disadvantages for African Americans.
  • The Jim Crow laws, enacted between 1876 and 1965, were a major factor in the African-American Great Migration during the early part of the 2oth century.
  • Board of Education, while the remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
  • These Democratic, conservative Redeemer governments legislated Jim Crow laws, segregating black people from the white population.
  • Cartoon from 1904 depicting racial segregation in the United States as "White" and "Jim Crow" rail cars.  

• Disenfranchising African Americans

  • Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.
  • Generally, the remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
  • The origin of the phrase "Jim Crow" often has been attributed to "Jump Jim Crow," a song-and-dance caricature of blacks performed in blackface by white actor Thomas D.
  • As a result of Rice's fame, "Jim Crow" had become a pejorative expression meaning "Negro" by 1838.
  • When the laws of racial segregation were enacted at the end of the nineteenth century, they became known as "Jim Crow" laws.

• Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement

  • Characteristics of this system, also known as "Jim Crow," included racial segregation, voter disenfranchisement, economic exploitation, and organized violence against the black community.

• The "Nadir of Race Relations" and the Great Migration

  • Many white Americans around the nation and in the U.S. territories overseas supported legal and customary rules of segregation known colloquially as "Jim Crow," especially in the Midwest and the South.
  • Cartoon from 1904 depicting racial segregation in the United States as "White" and "Jim Crow" rail cars.  
  • Jim Crow laws established "separate-but-equal" facilities.

• Legally Free, Socially Bound

  • The Jim Crow laws were enacted on the state and local levels between 1876 and 1965, and mandated de jure segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans .

• Conclusion: The Effects of Reconstruction

  • Although these constitutional rights were eroded by racist violence and Jim Crow laws, blacks still began participating in politics and these amendments lay the legal groundwork for more substantive equality during the civil rights era of the 1950s and 60s.
  • The legalization of African-American marriage and family and the independence of black churches from white denominations were a source of strength during the Jim Crow era.

• Minstrel Shows

  • One such popular routine was “Jump Jim Crow,” a song-and-dance routine portraying a caricature of an African American first performed in 1832 by white actor Thomas D.
  • The routine’s popularity gave rise to the term “Jim Crow,” a pejorative used to describe African Americans that was co-opted in the 1890s to describe voting laws that enforced racial segregation throughout the South.

• The "New Negro"

  • The "New Negro" is defined as the self-confidence and active refusal to obey Jim Crow-era laws of the post-World War I black community.
  • "New Negro" is a term popularized during the Harlem Renaissance, implying a more outspoken advocacy of dignity and a refusal to submit quietly to the practices and laws of Jim Crow racial segregation.