Sunday, January 27, 2013

Jim Crow

Please find an example of a "Jim Crow Law" from any state that implemented this type of 'separate but equal' policy.

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1) Please list the state your chosen law came from.
2) Please write the FULL language of the law.
3) Please copy and paste the URL of the website where you found your information.


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  1. Restaurants: It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment. Alabama

    http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/jcrow02.htm

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  2. Trains: " All railroads carrying passengers in the state ( other than street railroads ) shall provide equal but seperate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more passenger cars for each passenger train, or by dividing the cars by a partition, so as to secure seperate accommodations." Tennessee, 1891

    americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/jim-crow.html

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  3. Railroads: Railroad companies required to maintain separate
    coaches for white and colored passengers, equal in
    comfort. Penalty: Passengers refusing to sit where
    assigned were guilty of a misdemeanor, and could
    be fined between $5 and $20. Texas

    http://www.bringinghistoryhome.org/assets/bringinghistoryhome/3rd-grade/unit-2/activity-5/3_Texas_Jim%20Crow.pdf

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  4. Prisons: even prison wardens had to segregate blacks and whites they had to eat, sleep, and work separately Www.nps.gov/mal/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm

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    1. What state Mr. Kenton? Please follow all directions.
      -Mrs. Buchanan

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  5. 1951 in Kentucky:Interacial adoption is banned. 1956 in Kentucky:All buisnesses were prohibited from any dancing, social functions, entertainment, athletic training, games, sports or contests in which the participants are african-american. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jim_Crow_law_examples_by_State

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  6. Paul M. 3
    No colored barber may tend to a white woman or girl. Georgia http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm

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  7. "Separate free school shall be established for the eduaction of children of afircan american decsent;and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school,or any white child to attend any colored school."-Missouri

    http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/jim-crow.html

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  8. Buses: All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for white and colored races. (Alabama)


    http://people.sju.edu/~brokes/jimcrow.htm

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  9. Wine and beer: If you are allowed to sell beer or wine you must serve it to only one race, whites or blacks. Georgia

    http://people.sju.edu/~brokes/jimcrow.htm

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  10. Juvenile Delinquents: There would be separate buildings, not nearer than one fourth mile to each other, one for white boys and one for African American boys. White boys and African American boys could not associate together or work together. (Florida)
    http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm

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  11. Marriges: "Marriges are void when one party is a white person and the other is possessed of one-eighth or more negro, japanese, or chinese blood." -Nebraska, 1911
    http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/jim-crow.html

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  12. Schooling: Separate rooms shall be provided for African American students, and when they are provided, the African American students may not be allowed into a classroom with people of Caucasian or other descent. New Mexico
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jim_Crow_law_examples_by_State#New_Mexico

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  13. Buses: All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for white and colored races [Alabama] http://people.sju.edu/~brokes/jimcrow.htm

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  14. Mining: The baths and lockers had to be seperated, but could be in the same building. (Oklahoma)
    http://people.sju.edu/~brokes/jimcrow.htm

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  15. All taxes paid by blacks to go to maintaining African
    schools. Duty of the legislature to "encourage
    colored schools.
    http://www.bringinghistoryhome.org/assets/bringinghistoryhome/3rd-grade/unit-2/activity-5/3_Texas_Jim%20Crow.pdf

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  16. In Louisiana African Americans had a certain amount of time to be downtown and whites determined the type of business they could be in.

    http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=735

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  17. Hospitalization; In Georgia no African Americans can be in the same hospital or mental institution room with a white person.


    http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples/examples-of-jim-crow-laws.html

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  18. Textbooks: Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them. North Carolina

    http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm

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  19. Malitia,White and colored men are to be seperately enrolled and in different organizations and the colored men are to be commanded by a white officer north carolina http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm

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  20. Telephones:Black people had to use different telephones than white people.

    Oklahoma,1915

    http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/detail/jim-crow-laws.html

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    1. **In separate telephone booths.

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    2. Yes black people and white people had seperate telephone booths

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    1. Wonderful point, but this is not an example of a Jim Crow Law, this is an example of racism via voting rights. African Americans legally had the right to vote, there was no law to restrict their voting.
      Great example of racism, but not of a Jim Crow Law.

      Please post again.
      -Mrs. Buchanan

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  22. Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was also segregated.
    Southern States (Texas to Noth Carolina)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

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    1. Please list a specific example in a specific state.

      -Mrs. Buchanan

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  23. Ashley T. 3rd period
    The officers in charge may not alow colored people to be buried on the same land of white people.(Georgie)
    http://people.sju.edu/~brokes/jimcrow.htm

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  24. Please clarify your web address. This URL leads to a University page without this specific information listed.
    -MB

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  25. I LIKE YOUR PICTURE RYAN, just sayin

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  26. It shall be unlawful for colored and a white person to play together or in company with each other of any game of cards, dominoes, dice, or checkers. (Birmingham, Alabama) 1930. American history.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/jim-crow.html

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  27. It.was illegal for a black and a white to stay by each other in the bus station.They were not allowed to communicate or eyeball each other while they were waiting. This law was enforced in the states of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia. Americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/2-segregrated-station/jimcrowlaws.html

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  28. Circus tickets: All circuses,shows and tent exhibitions, to which the attendance of more than one race is invited or expected to attend shall provide for the convenience of its patrons not less than two ticket offices with individual sellers, and not less than two entrances to the said performance, with individual ticket takers and recivers, and in the case of outside or tent performences, the said ticket offices shall not be less than twenty feet apart. Louisiana.

    http://people.sju.edu/~brokes/jimcrow.htm

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  29. ASIAN IMMIGRATION: Produced more legislative against chinese immigrants than African americans from 1879 to 1926 constitution stated that "no native of China" shall ever exercise the privileges of an elector in the state". Similar provisions appeared in the constitutions of Oregon and Idaho. California 1879

    End.m.Wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_Jim_crow_law_examples_by_state

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    1. Not a valid web address to verify your information. Please post again.

      -Mrs. Buchanan

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  30. toilets: blacks and whites couldnt even use he same bathroom as one another (alabama)

    http://people.sju.edu/~brokes/jimcrow.htm

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  31. burial:if any colored male/female died they could not be buried in a white grave yard (georgia)

    http://people.sju.edu/~brokes/jimcrow.htm

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  32. http://people.sju.edu/~brokes/jimcrow.htm (Oklahoma) The Corporate Comission was there to grant seperate telephone booths for black and white people to use. The white people were pleading for new telephone booths for their seperate use.

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  33. In 1928 any person from a different(mainly white and black) race isn’t allowed to use the same toilets, hotels, restaurants ect. -Alabama

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  34. http://classroomhelp.com/till/jimcrowlaws/jimcrowalabama.html
    sorry

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  35. Blacks could not sit in the front of a bus they had to sit at the back and if a white man or woman needed a seat the black man or woman had to get up and move some where else.
    -Alabama
    www.nps.gov/malu/fprteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm

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  36. An all-white jury is an American political situation where a jury in a criminal trial or grand jury investigation is composed only white people. - Kentucky Http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/all-white_jury

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    1. I will allow this time, though this is not specifically a Jim Crow Law.
      -MB

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  37. “All railroads carrying passengers in the state (other than street railroads) shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more passenger cars for each passenger train, or by dividing the cars by a partition, so as to secure separate accommodations.”
    —Tennessee, 1891
    http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/jim-crow.html

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  38. The Jim Crow law in Florida,
    "All marriages between a white person and a colored, or by a colored decent to the fourth generation, are hereby forever prohibited."
    "The schools for white children and the schools for colored children shall be conducted separately."

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    1. I found this information at...
      en.m.wikipeadia.org/wiki/list_of_Jim_Crow_Law_examples_by_State#section_6

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    2. Try to find another one that uses a site that is NOT Wikipedia please.
      -MB

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  39. Please follow the full instructions above in yellow. Your post MUST contain all 3 items to gain credit this week.
    Please do NOT post from Wikipedia.

    -MB

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  40. The blog is closed.
    -Mrs. Buchanan

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