Jim Crow

Question 1

Origins and meaning of “Jim Crow”

Answer 1

The “rules” of how African Americans were supposed to behave in the south. (1820’s) Completely Racist. Segregation.

Question 2

Details of Plessy vs. Ferguson Case

Answer 2

Homer Plessy refused to sit in the “black train.”
The case went to the supreme court.
Supreme court ruled “equal but separate accomodations” was constitutional.
Opened the door for all the Jim Crow/Segregation Laws.
1896

Question 3

Main arguments made by Justices Brown and Harlan in deciding Plessy

Answer 3

Brown:
-If one race is socially inferior the constitution cannot put them on the same plane.
Harlan:
-The constitution is color-blind
-Segregation implies that colored citizens are inferior.

Question 4

Define Lynching

Answer 4

Execution of a person without fair trial by a group of people. Usually hanging. Could include various forms of torture as well.

Question 5

Stats on lynching

Answer 5

90% in total were southern.
about 3,500 blacks and 1,300 whites.
Police only intervened half of the time.

Question 6

Anti-Lynching Laws?

Answer 6

Never approved.

Question 7

The great migration

Answer 7

6 MIL African Americans moved out of the south.

1915: 90% of African Americans lived in the south.
1970: 53%