1. By Chloe Lavin And Cameron L.

2.  Jim Crow Laws : is practices, institutions, or laws that separate African Americans and White people.

3.  Jim Crow originally referred to a black person in an old song.

4.  Jim Crow Laws first developed in a few Northern states in the early 1800s.  It was later adopted by the southern states.  The term came into use in the 1880s.  Racial segregation was legal at the time.

5.  The Supreme Court supported segregation.  Example. Plessey v. Ferguson.  In the 1896 the Court supported Louisiana law separating whites and blacks in a {supposedly separate but equal} rail road car.  For more than 50 years people used the separate but equal rule.

6.  Ku Klux Klan was a terrorist group against blacks.  They did not like the idea of blacks having freedom.  The KKK extremely supported the Jim Crow laws.

8.  Blacks protested that everyone should be treated equal.

9.  In the case of brown v. board of education the supreme court reversed their earlier decision. {Plessey v. Ferguson}

10.  The civil rights act of 1964 and 1968 banned Jim Crow practices.  Now whites and blacks work together.

11.  Pbs.org  Britannica.com  World book student  u-s-history

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