1. Jim Crow: Segregation in the South
6-2 Notes

2. Segregation in the South
Black Codes: laws that limited blacks legal rights in the South
No black participation in politics
Return blacks to slave status
What were Black Codes? – Video

3. More Black Codes
Denied blacks the rights to testify against whites, to serve on juries or in state militias, or vote
No speaking loudly in front of white women
Blacks not allowed to leave a job before paying back a debt
Harsh penalty for stealing farm animals
Vagrancy laws made it a crime to be unemployed

4. Segregation in the South
Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)
Southern states pass discriminatory laws
EX: blacks pay a poll tax before voting

5. Segregation in the South
2) Jim Crow Laws
Laws that segregate whites and blacks
Goal to prevent race mixing in public
EX: schools, hospital wards, bathrooms, fountains, hotels, train cars, cemeteries
What were the Jim Crow Laws? - Video

6. Racial Stereotypes in Jim Crow Era
Jim Crow character
Racial Stereotypes in Jim Crow Era

8. Segregation in the South
3) Civil Rights Act of 1875
Goal was to stop segregation of public spaces
CRA fails and businesses allowed to discriminate

9. Jim Crow in Disney - Video
Jim Crow character
Jim Crow in Disney - Video

10. Segregation in the South
4) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Supreme Court declares “separate but equal” facilities are legal
Jim Crow is legally allowed in any state

11. Discriminatory Signs

12. “Song of the Roustabouts”
Video: Song of the Roustabouts
Roustabout: unskilled laborer, circus hand who sets up the tents