1. JIM CROW In America

2. 8-5.4
Summarize the policies and actions of SC’s political leadership in implementing discriminatory laws that established a system of racial segregation, intimidation, and violence.

3. What did Jim Crow laws do to race relations in SC?
Focus Question
What did Jim Crow laws do to race relations in SC?

4. What does this picture portray
What does this picture portray? How do you think it affected the people of SC?

5. Who was Jim Crow?
“Jim Crow” was a character (played by a white man dressed as a black man) in minstrel shows. He sang and mimicked stereotypical behavior of blacks – as a form of comedy.

6. The minstrel show was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the American Civil War, African Americans in blackface.

7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin “The Fashionable Cake Walk”
Is this an accurate representation of the book by Harriet Beecher Stowe?

8. Jim Crow Statuettes
Describe these statues in your own words… they were sold at an outdoor market

9. The Right To Vote
What is this cartoon telling the viewer?

10. Education For All
What is going on in this cartoon? What does it say about the education of blacks?

11. A Long Way to Go…
The fight for Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity continued into the 20th century…decades after the end of the Civil War