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1 By: Briana Heuthe, Justine Kennedy. Mahin Choudhury, Bryana Kenton, and Amy Lee

2  The emergence of segregation in the South began immediately after the Civil War.  The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.

3  Racial segregation was mandated in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans.

4  1876 and 1965  State and local laws in the United States  segregation in public places  equal but should be separate

5  “separate but equal”  Segregation in public schools, places, and transportation  Buchanan v. Warley  Irene Morgan v. Virginia  Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

6 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas - banned Segregation in all schools in 1954 Plessy v. Ferguson- outlawed the “separate but equal” calling it unjust and unfair

7  13th, 14th, and 15th  1877,  Southern white people in power twisted the new laws to subjugate the African Americans.  They created the Jim Crow laws which mandated racial discrimination.

8  After World War II assault on Jim Crow in the South  In 1954 the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.,  In 1963 march on Washington. Martin Luther King Jr. made his “I have a Dream” speech.  The Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 finally ended the legal sanctions to Jim Crow.

9 Some examples of Jim Crow are some laws in various states: Nurses - No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed. Alabama Textbooks - Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them. ( North Carolina)

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