1. Jim Crow Laws Jonathan.Osman

2. Contents Introduction The Laws Everyday Laws Jim Crow etiquette Other laws Lynching Summary

3. Introduction Where? Primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states. What? The Jim Crow laws were anti-black state and local laws in the United States. When? Enacted between 1876 and 1965. How? The white Democratic Redeemer government in the south legislated these laws to segregate the blacks from the whites

4. Everyday laws Barbers. Burial. Buses. Prisons Education. Libraries.

5. Jim Crow etiquette Do not shake hands Do not offer hand or any other part of body to a woman Blacks are not allowed to eat with whites Do not offer to light a cigarette for a white woman Do not show public affection Blacks had to be introduced to whites first No courtesy titles for Black people Black people ride in the back White people had right-of-way at all intersections

6. Non-Compliance Non-compliers risked their homes, their jobs and even their lives Physically beaten by the whites No legal recourse for the blacks The Jim Crow criminal justice system was all-white and therefore biased

7. Lynching lynch |lin ch | verb [ trans. ] (of a mob) kill (someone), esp. by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial. Had many uses Sadistic methods Used to make an example Most extreme form of Jim Crow violence

8. Summary EVIL

9. Bibliography http://www.ferris.edu/JIMCROW/what.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws America- A History By Allan Hux/Fred Jarman/Bill Gleberzon published 1948

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