To Kill a Mockingbird Group Research Jim Crow Laws By: Chase Hayes Julianna Vallesteros Ariz Bringas John Abapo

Segregation The separation of differnt racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. Segregation has multiple meanings, but this is specifically referring to the separation of blacks and whites. EX1: as in the picture most offeten blacks had to drink from different water fountains then whites.

The Birth of Segregation Segregation beggan when slavery was put to an end. The South passed laws after the war to limit the blacks rights. After the Civil War, slavery was put to an end but gave birth to segregation. Since the south didn't agree with banning slavery, they created laws that restricted the rights of blacks separating them from whites.

Seperate But Equal Meaning: This meant that blacks were just as equal as whites But the blacks were still seperate from whites The US Supreme Court gave everyone equal rights although, racially separate facilities did not go against the constitution.

Equal but still separate. This did not go against the 14th Ammendment of the United States Costitution. (1896) U.S. Supreme Court gave equal rights to everyone But the government was allowed to require that services, facilities, public accommodations, housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation was still to be separated along racial lines

Jim Crow Laws Jim Crow was a system of segregation and discrimination(1800's) Jim Crow was a system of segregation and discrimination practiced in Southern and some border states soon after the Civil War. there is no exact know origin of date to when this was practiced but it is likely to come from the 1800's

The Embolishment of Jim Crow Laws The Civil War put Jim Crow Laws to rest. protest all around helped with the fall of Jim Crow Laws In the mid 1950s into the 1960s the Civil Rights Movement became very active.  Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of a bus which was followed by a bus boycott by the blacks. The Civil Rights Movement was the main force behind the abolishing of the state Jim Crow laws.

Jim Crow Still Stands Today "People are swept into the criminal justice system — particularly in poor communities of color — at very early ages ... typically for fairly minor, nonviolent crimes," - Michelle Alexander says. In her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, legal scholar Michelle Alexander writes that many of the gains of the civil rights movement have been undermined by the mass incarceration of black Americans in the war on drugs. She says that although Jim Crow laws are now off the books, millions of blacks arrested for minor crimes remain marginalized and disfranchised, trapped by a criminal justice system that has forever branded them as felons and denied them basic rights and opportunities that would allow them to become productive, law-abiding citizens

She says... People are still targeted based on: color environment age income Michelle says that people are still targeted by their color, people today think because one black man robs a old woman that the next black man they see is a suspect of a crime that he has not even thought of committing. They are also targeted in poor neighborhoods and by their age.

Racial Profiling Racial profiling is the use of an individual’s race or ethnicity by law enforcement personnel as a key factor in deciding whether to engage in enforcement Racial profiling is illegal in many jurisdictions but is seen in some cases. this is an example of how we still connect Jim Crow laws to todays society.

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