1. Racial Segregation and the Rise of the Jim Crow Laws
SOL USII.3c

2. SOL USII.3c
The student will demonstrate knowledge of how life changed after the Civil War by
c) describing racial segregation, the rise of “Jim Crow,” and other constraints faced by African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South.

3. Task
This slide show will examine racial segregation and the Rise of Jim Crow Laws in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. We will view key figures and groups that participated and impacted this era of United States history.
Please fill out your handout as the class exams this time period of racial segregation. Then see the last slide for your homework assignment.

4. After the Civil War The United States Constitution Adopted:
13th Amendment:
Abolishment of Slavery

5. After the Civil War U.S. Constitution Adopted
14th Amendment:
1. Defines American Citizenship
2. Prohibited the Abridging the
Privileges of Citizens
3. Applied the Due Process
Clause (5th Amendment)
4. Guaranteed “equal protection
of the laws” to all citizens

6. After the Civil War The U.S. Constitution Adopted:
15th Amendment:
Gives U.S. Citizens the right to vote and voters can not be discriminated based on race, color or “previous condition of servitude”
Class Discussion
What Issues did African Americans have to face after the Civil War?

7. What is Racial Segregation?
It is the separation of a certain group of people, based on their race, from another group in daily life.

8. Racial Segregation
Black Codes- U.S. States passed these laws to take away the Civil Rights of African Americans.
Occurred in former Confederate States in the 1860s and the laws went on a state by state basis
Examples of Black Codes:
Literacy Tests to vote
Licenses required for work,
marriage, weapons, property ownership, etc.
NO Vagrancy, required to work, and the Codes regulated the type of work, and the hours of labor

9. Rise of Jim Crow Jim Crow laws (1877) Segregation
“Separate but Equal” Rule
separate facilities: schools, railroad carts, bathrooms, and later water fountains.
African Americans were prevented from living in “white” sections of towns, and they were limited to mostly laborious jobs.

10. Rise of Jim Crow Peer Discussion
Why would Northerners have issues with the Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws?

11. Rise of Jim Crow Key Figures/ Groups Anti-Jim Crow W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
NAACP
NACW

12. How Did Washington and Du Bois Differ in Response to the Laws?
W.E.B. Du Bois
He accepted social segregation
Du Bois believe equality among the races could be achieved through vocational education.
He started the Tuskegee Vocational School (1881)
Booker T. Washington
He believed in total social, political, and civil rights for all African Americans.
He did not accept segregation and he wanted an end to discrimination.
He started the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

13. Rise of Jim Crow
Pro Jim Crow Groups
Klu Klux Klan
Democratic Party

14. What other groups went through racial segregation?
In your group discuss what other groups of people besides for African Americans that probably went through racial segregation.

15. Other SOLs in this Assignment
Analyze and interpret primary and secondary source documents to increase understanding of events and life in United States history. (USII.1a)
Make connections between past and present. (USII.1b)
Sequence events in United States history. (USII.1c)
Interpret ideas and events from different historical perspectives. (USII.1d)

16. Homework Assignment
Please write a 1 ½ page paper as if you were a person living in the early 19th century segregated south. Give specific examples in your paper of racial segregation. Make your reader feel the emotions and burdens of the troubled times.

17. Class Project
You will make a slide show presentation on racial segregation and the Jim Crow Laws. You may chose to research:
One of the U.S. states that once supported the Laws
A person or group that supported or opposed the laws