1. RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
What is a right?
What is a freedom?

2. Human rights are about recognising and respecting the inherent value and dignity of all people.
Because we have the right to life, religion, safety etc, we have the freedom to act in any way we please, as long as it doesn’t infringe on another person’s human rights.

3. Jim Crow Laws
REAL OR
NOT REAL?

4. No female white nurse will be required to look after a negro man
Alabama
No female white nurse will be required to look after a negro man

5. Alabama
All bus stations will have separate ticket windows and waiting areas for whites and negroes

6. It is unlawful for a white and negro person to play pool together
Alabama
It is unlawful for a white and negro person to play pool together

7. Separate toilet facilities will be provided for whites and negros
Alabama
Separate toilet facilities will be provided for whites and negros

8. Florida, Georgia
Marriages between a white person and negro are allowed, if special permission is granted

9. Florida
Any negro man or woman who live with or spend one night in the same room with a white man or woman could go to jail for five years

10. Florida, Mississippi, Georgia
Negros are not allowed to attend school

11. Answers Nurses: Real Bus Stations: Real Pool: Real Toilets: Real
Marriages: Not real – they could not get married
Cohabitation: Not real – 1 year jail time
Education: Not real – separate schools

12. Jim Crow Laws
From the 1880s – 1960s many US states enforced segregation laws
Segregation: The separation of whites and blacks, in private and public
The government called it, “separate but equal”

13. Who Was Jim Crow?
Jump Jim Crow was a song and dance from 1828, performed in black face by white comedian, Thomas Dartmouth, otherwise known as “Daddy Rice”. To “Jump Jim Crow” is to behave like a black person.

14. The Civil Rights Movement
Was about banning all of the Jim Crow Laws that still existed in the 1960s.
Definition: A program of civil disobedience and protest undertaken by African Americans and their supporters in the 1950s and 1960s.

20. Review Questions What were the Jim Crow Laws? What was segregation?
What was the Civil Rights Movement?