background - Jim Crow

Question 1

What was the Jim-Crow error

Answer 1

post-slavery, but restrictive laws remained; varied state by state

Question 2

describe the 1850 Jim crow law

Answer 2

1850: “no black, mulatto person, or Indian, shall be allowed to give evidence in favor of, or against a white man.”

Question 3

what did unemployment cause during great depression

Answer 3

Movement north/to cities; still no work; ghettoisation

Question 4

describe segregation and its effects

Answer 4

Segregation (‘separate but equal’ not overturned until 1955) in fact led to inferior healthcare, education , employment- de jure prejudice

Question 5

what did Jim Crow laws create?

Answer 5

Discrimination, victimisation, segregation and alienation- de facto prejudice
The KKK and lynch mob mentality

Question 6

Describe the 1860 Jim crow law

Answer 6

1860–1880; 1885: Education [Statute] Children of “Negroes, Mongolians, and Indians” must attend separate schools.

Question 7

describe the 1880 Jim Crowe law

Answer 7

1880: Miscegenation [Statute] Made it illegal for white persons to marry a “Negro, mulatto, or Mongolian.”

Question 8

describe the 1894 Jim Crowe law

Answer 8

1894: Voter rights [Constitution] Any person who could not read the Constitution in English or write his name would be disfranchised.