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To separate African American's from the whites.
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∙ 11y agosouthern states passed a viariety of jim crow laws enforcing racial segregation in education ,housing ,transportation ,and public facilities. marriage between blacks and whites was forbidden . for almost 90 years following reconstruction ,poll taxes and literacy test made voting all but impossible for Africa's Americans
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The Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow Laws were a series of state and local laws enforcing segregation. They made it so that a black man was very limited in what they could do with white men. Here is a list from The Ferris State Universities Jim Crow Museum:
A black male could not offer his hand (to shake hands) with a white male because it implied being socially equal. Obviously, a black male could not offer his hand or any other part of his body to a white woman.
Blacks and whites were not supposed to eat together. If they did eat together, whites were to be served first, and some sort of partition was to be placed between them.
Under no circumstance was a black male to offer to light the cigarette of a white female – that gesture implied intimacy.
Blacks were not allowed to show public affection toward one another in public, especially kissing, because it offended whites.
Jim Crow etiquette prescribed that blacks were introduced to whites, never whites to blacks. For example: “Mr. Peters (the white person), this is Charlie (the black person), that I spoke to you about.”
Whites did not use courtesy titles of respect when referring to blacks, for example, Mr., Mrs., Miss., Sir, or Ma'am. Instead, blacks were called by their first names. Blacks had to use courtesy titles when referring to whites, and were not allowed to call them by their first names.
If a black person rode in a car driven by a white person, the black person sat in the back seat, or the back of a truck.
White motorists had the right-of-way at all intersections.
Separate Cars
In 1890, Louisiana passed the “Separate Auto Law,” which purported to aid passenger comfort by creating “equal but separate” buses for blacks and whites. This was a ruse. No public lodgment, including railway travel, handed blacks with equal utilities. The Louisiana law made it illegal for blacks to sit in coach seats reserved for whites, and whites couldn't sit in seats reserved for blacks.
Rebellion
In 1891, a group of blacks decided to test the Jim Crow law. They had Homer A. Plessy, who was seven-eighths white and one-eighth black (thus, black), sit in the white-only railway coach. He was arrested. Plessy's attorney-at-law argued that Louisiana didn't have the right to label one citizen as
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∙ 12y agoi don't either that's why im askin
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∙ 12y agoThey forced aferican americans to be slaves and never saw what they feel like to say like to be an astronate or an alphabatizer they dont choose.
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∙ 14y agoThe Jim Crow laws enforced it
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What were some of the problems of the South that the civil rights movement helped change?
Jim Crow laws and police-enforced segregation
The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s resulted in?
progress, but also ghetto riots and a "white backlash."
What was the overall effect of the civil rights movement on the economic status of the African Americans by 1975?
A decrease in poverty and an increase in education
Did the civil rights movement work?
The Civil Rights movement succeeded for several reasons. Television helped gain supporters for the movement. TV showed how some blacks were being treated. Take Bloody Sunday, for example. Many blacks were injured for peacefully marching in the streets. This event was shown on TV, and many Americans were appalled at what they saw. Great leaders of the civil rights movement such as Martin Luther King Jr. contributed to the success of the movement. The civil rights movement was also very organized. Strategies such as sit-ins, bus boycotts, freedom rides, and marches were organized, so many civil rights believers participated. Civil rights believers were very passive, too, which was an effective strategy.
Why was the sncc important to the civil rights movement?
Because this is what kind of helped the civil rights movement for example the sncc had proff about the Jim crow laws and how they were rasict laws and it also showed what the whites did to the colored people and how mean and cruel they were and the sncc tried to disscus it with there peers and how to stop it[jimcrowlaws] and the sncc was one of the primary insitutions of the American civil rights movement in the 1960s.
How did Jim crow impact the civil rights movement?
families divided.
What were some of the problems of the South that the civil rights movement helped change?
Jim Crow laws and police-enforced segregation
The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s resulted in?
progress, but also ghetto riots and a "white backlash."
What was the overall effect of the civil rights movement on the economic status of the African Americans by 1975?
A decrease in poverty and an increase in education
What was the leading of civil rights movement leader was?
the people were martin luther king, rosa parks, and the people that want to have rights from the jim crow laws after emmit till died
Did the civil rights movement work?
The Civil Rights movement succeeded for several reasons. Television helped gain supporters for the movement. TV showed how some blacks were being treated. Take Bloody Sunday, for example. Many blacks were injured for peacefully marching in the streets. This event was shown on TV, and many Americans were appalled at what they saw. Great leaders of the civil rights movement such as Martin Luther King Jr. contributed to the success of the movement. The civil rights movement was also very organized. Strategies such as sit-ins, bus boycotts, freedom rides, and marches were organized, so many civil rights believers participated. Civil rights believers were very passive, too, which was an effective strategy.
Why was the sncc important to the civil rights movement?
Because this is what kind of helped the civil rights movement for example the sncc had proff about the Jim crow laws and how they were rasict laws and it also showed what the whites did to the colored people and how mean and cruel they were and the sncc tried to disscus it with there peers and how to stop it[jimcrowlaws] and the sncc was one of the primary insitutions of the American civil rights movement in the 1960s.
What roles did the NAACP play in the civil rights movement?
The NAACP were an organisation of black and white people that restored justice and rights back to the blacks in the cvil rights movement. They tackled different events such as Jim Crow and disfranchisement in the U.S. They are the most oldest and influenced organisation in the U.S.
What was the result of civil rights movement?
well there were 2 acts that passed the 1st gave Civil Rights to AA which declared Jim Crow laws illegal along with segregation and discrimination the 2nd act gave AA the right to vote without taking a test or having to pay any money :)
What started the US civil rights movement?
There were multiple events that started it.The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) is often stated as the beginning of the movement. But school desegregation had begun the previous year with the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.*(see the links below to read events that led up to the civil rights movement)
What was not used to keep blacks from exercising their civil rights A.poll taxes B.Jim Crow laws C.lynching or D.due process?
Jim Crow laws
How did African American suffer after reconstruction ended?
Jim Crow laws were passed and discrimination became part of the society. It wasn't until the 1960's and the civil rights movement that "separate but equal" was found to be illegal.
