1. The Progression of Racism

4. Brainstorm What is racism?
1. poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race
2. the belief that some races of people are better than others

5. Brainstorm What is segregation?
1.  the separation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group by enforced or voluntary residence in a restricted area, by barriers to social intercourse, by separate educational facilities, or by other discriminatory means
2.  the separation for special treatment or observation of individuals or items from a larger group <segregation of gifted children into accelerated classes>

6. Jim Crow Laws: The Basics
State and local restrictions based on “separate but equal” statues for black Americans. These conditions led to segregation that is forced by law .
(ALMOST 100 years)
Black vs White
Location: State and local levels (US)
Examples: Voting restrictions, segregation of public transportation, schools, and so on

7. History of Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow Laws were laws established to promote racial segregation, especially after the federal government stopped enforcing the promotion of Civil Rights in the south in 1877 (after Reconstruction).
Amendments and acts were specifically designed to protect the civil rights of black people.
13th (prohibiting slavery)
14th (due process to all citizens),
15th (the right to vote for all citizens) amendments
The Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875
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8. History of Jim Crow Laws
After 1877 (when the government stopped enforcing civil rights), the southern white people in power (Redeemers) immediately sought to take away the civil rights of black people that had been granted by twisting the language of the new laws to suppress black people. 
Such laws mandated racial discrimination and became known as Jim Crow Laws (named after a character performed in blackface by Thomas Rice, a pre-Civil War white actor who dressed in rags to portray a shabbily dressed, rural black man).