To Kill a Mockingbird Jim Crow Laws. Standard ELA10RL3 The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to contemporary context or.

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To Kill a Mockingbird Jim Crow Laws

Standard ELA10RL3 The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods. The student: a. Relates a literary work to non-literary documents and/or other texts from its literary period. b. Relates a literary work to non-literary documents and/or other texts relevant to its historical setting. c. Analyzes the influence of mythical, classical, and canonical literature on contemporary literature and film.

What is Jim Crowe Definition: Jim Crow laws were laws that imposed racial segregation. They existed mainly in the South and originated from the black codes that were enforced from 1865 to 1866 and from prewar segregation on railroad cars in northern cities. The laws sprouted up in the late nineteenth century after Reconstruction (1877) and lasted until the 1960s.

States with Jim Crowe Laws

What do you think? What are some samples of Jim Crowe laws?

Sample laws - Healthcare No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed.

Sample Laws - marriage It shall be unlawful for a white person to marry anyone except a white person. Any marriage in violation of this section shall be void.

Beliefs Behind It The Jim Crow system was undergirded by the following beliefs or rationalizations: Whites were superior to Blacks in all important ways, including but not limited to intelligence, morality, and civilized behavior; sexual relations between Blacks and Whites would produce a mongrel race which would destroy America; treating Blacks as equals would encourage interracial sexual unions; any activity which suggested social equality encouraged interracial sexual relations; if necessary, violence must be used to keep Blacks at the bottom of the racial hierarchy.

Rules of Jim Crowe The following Jim Crow etiquette norms show how inclusive and pervasive these norms were: 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, because he risked being accused of rape. 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.

Rules of Jim Crowe (con.) 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.

Jim Crowe Rules Stetson Kennedy, the author of Jim Crow Guide, offered these simple rules that Blacks were supposed to observe in conversing with Whites: Never assert or even intimate that a White person is lying. Never impute dishonorable intentions to a White person. Never suggest that a White person is from an inferior class. Never lay claim to, or overly demonstrate, superior knowledge or intelligence. Never curse a White person. Never laugh derisively at a White person. Never comment upon the appearance of a White female.

Lynchings Violence against African Americans spread like an epidemic across the South until the 1930s, with the most extreme expressions of racism taking the form of lynchings and urban riots. During the Jim Crow era, the word lynching came to mean mob violence against African Americans, capital punishment without the sanction of law, ritualized torture, and explosive race riots that erupted in nearly every part of the country. More often than not the alleged crimes committed by lynching victims were trumped up and even imaginary.

This map depicts a representative selection of the thousands of recorded lynchings that wept across the nation from 1889 to 1918.

Why Lynching? Under Jim Crow any and all sexual interactions between Black men and White women was illegal, illicit, socially repugnant, and within the Jim Crow definition of rape. Although only 19.2 percent of the lynching victims between 1882 to 1951 were even accused of rape, Lynch law was often supported on the popular belief that lynchings were necessary to protect White women from Black rapists.