1. What was Jim Crow?
Jim Crow was an African-American character that tried to act “_________________” by adopting white_________and ______________________.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that Segregated: __________________________
Jim Crow laws started in the ________________ and slowly made their way ___________.

2. Examples of Jim Crow Laws
White nurses couldn’t help Black men
Separate transport waiting rooms & ticket offices for Blacks
Blacks & whites couldn’t play pool together
People of different races couldn’t marry
Separate toilets, fountains
Separate baseball fields
Separation of white & Black prisoners
Black & white students couldn’t use the same textbooks
Blacks could not be served in white restaurants or lunch counters
No Blacks in public libraries
Whites forbidden to sell property to Blacks

3. Plessy vs. Ferguson Court Case
Homer Plessy was jailed in 1892 for sitting in a whites only railroad car.
Plessy decided to challenge Jim Crow and segregation in court.
_________________________________was heard by the US Supreme Court
Court Ruling:
“____________________________________” Doctrine: Segregation is okay, as long as everything else about it is equal.
Segregation is not overturned until __________________

4. The ____________________ is re-founded in 1917 and its membership grows into the millions during the _________________ Most members lived in the ________________, but there were chapters in every state.

5. _______________ Increases

6. Jim Crow Era White Supremacist Riots Many, in some cases hundreds of African Americans died.
1873: Colfax, LA
1898: Wilmington, NC
1898: Greenwood, SC
1900: New Orleans, LA
1900: New York City
1904: Springfield, OH
1906: Atlanta, GA
1906: Greenburg, IN
1906: Brownsville, TX
1908: Springfield, IL
1917: St. Louis, IL. Chester, PA, Philadelphia, PA, Houston, TX
1919: Red Summer—Chicago, Omaha, Charleston, Longview, TX, Knoxville, TN, Elaine, AR
1921: Tulsa, OK
1923: Rosewood, FL