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Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow Laws. By Chloe Lavin And Cameron L. Definition. Jim Crow Laws : is practices, institutions, or laws that separate African Americans and White people. Where it originated. Jim Crow originally referred to a black person in an old song. When it started.

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Jim Crow Laws

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  1. Jim Crow Laws By Chloe Lavin And Cameron L.

  2. Definition • Jim Crow Laws : is practices, institutions, or laws that separate African Americans and White people.

  3. Where it originated. • Jim Crow originally referred to a black person in an old song.

  4. When it started. • Jim Crow Laws first developed in a few Northern states in the early 1800s. • It was later adopted by the southern states. • The term came into use in the 1880s. • Racial segregation was legal at the time.

  5. The Supreme Court. • The Supreme Court supported segregation. • Example. Plessey v. Ferguson. • In the 1896 the Court supported Louisiana law separating whites and blacks in a {supposedly separate but equal} rail road car. • For more than 50 years people used the separate but equal rule.

  6. Terrorists • Ku Klux Klan was a terrorist group against blacks. • They did not like the idea of blacks having freedom. • The KKK extremely supported the Jim Crow laws.

  7. Jim Crow Laws in affect.

  8. Protest • Blacks protested that everyone should be treated equal.

  9. The supreme court decision. • In the case of brown v. board of education the supreme court reversed their earlier decision. {Plessey v. Ferguson}

  10. Jim Crow Laws banned. • The civil rights act of 1964 and 1968 banned Jim Crow practices. • Now whites and blacks work together .

  11. Sources • Pbs.org • Britannica.com • World book student • u-s-history

  12. THE END • In case you didn’t read the title this is the end of Chloe’s power point. • If you think this is awesome say" pineapple”.

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