Life+in+Jim+Crow+America

=Life In Jim Crow America= 1) Right after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment was ratified. What did the 14th Amendment provide for African Americans? What does “due process” and “equal protection of the laws” mean? [|14th LINK]  With the 14th amendment did for my race was that we were treated as citizens and had the same rights as all whites. Some of the things that it provided for us were equal protection under the laws meaning that we would not be denied our rights or have our rights limited due to our race. We would also get due process, which means that we would be tried like everyone else and not punished for crimes without any proof and a the criminal trial.

2) Unfortunately, the Supreme Court in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson challenged your equal rights. What do you remember about the facts, decision, and impact of this case? [|Plessy LINK]  What I remember about the Plessy v. Ferguson case was that a black man intentionally sat in a white segregated train car in order to get arrested and bring what many civil rights groups considered an unconstitutional law to the courts. It was eventually brought before the Supreme Court, which ruled 8 to1 that separate but equal institutions for separate races was not unconstitutional although they were obviously not equal for both races.It later creates the Jim Crow laws due to it now being constitutional.

3) The laws developed in the South became known as Jim Crow laws. Who was this Jim Crow fellow? Did he write the laws? [| Jim Crow LINK]  Jim Crow was a small time stage actor by the name of Thomas Rice. He performed racist comedy shows, which depicted blacks as lazy and stupid and inherently less human. As these shows in their copiers became more famous the term Jim Crow (the original character) became a derogatory term, which led to the stopping of disaggregation making people think that we weren’t worth it. Jim Crow later became a term for laws that restricted the rights of my race.

4) What are some specific examples of the Jim Crow laws from southern states? How did the laws affect you? [|Jim Crow Laws LINK 1] / [|Jim Crow Laws LINK 2] / [|Jim Crow Laws LINK 3]  Some examples of current Jim Crow laws include that blacks than whites not be married, have separate facilities such as train cars and railroads as well as blacks and whites could not play games together and blacks were referred to after whites in sentences. How the laws affected me were that I had to use separate facilities such as bathrooms or segregated hospital. could not be friends with whites and that I generally feel like a second-class citizen.

5) What did Jim Crow America look like in the 1900s? What are some images that can help explain the realities of the time? [|Jim Crow Images LINK 1] / [|Jim Crow Images LINK 2]  I think that Jim Crowell America looked like two separate worlds that were coming into conflict with one another. Some examples of this are those gruesome images of lynching and segregated and separated facilities and the signs that indicate them. Some other important images include those who fought for civil rights such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Deboise.

6) What happened in the Scottsboro Case? How did it make you feel as an African American in the South? [|Scottsboro LINK]  What happened in the Scottsboro case was that after nine black boys were sentenced with assault and rape after two women testified that they had raped them in fear that their sexual activity with whites would be discovered. They then were all sentenced to death except for the youngest of the group. After a series of appeals and multiple Supreme Court cases they all were acquitted of all charges except for Haywood Patterson was eventually jailed, although hr later escaped later escaped. This made me feel very outrage at the completely untrue accusations as well as a bit disgusted at the political wrangling going on for such a blatantly untrue case.

7) Why should anyone care about your life during Jim Crow America? [|Why should I care? Link]  People should care about my life during Jim Crow America because it is not only unfair, unkind and sometimes cruel but also shows the racism deeply embedded in the conscience of America and how we need to put a stop to it and face up to it century of terror and impassivity to it.