4th-Jim+Crow+Laws

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​  **Jim Crow Laws**- Laws that segregated the blacks from the whites in the 1880's to the 1960's.During this time there were seperate entrances to resteraunts,factories,and ect.African americans were treated as secound rate citizens even after their afforts in the war.African americans that went into the war expected to come home honered and respected by their country asd war heros but they came back to the same disrespect and segragation.The name Jim Crow originated from a performer named Thomas Rice.He would put on ":black face" made from coal and do different performances such as songs and dance.This was mainly accuring in the south. Causing Jail time ,fines,and ect.Finally the 15th amendment ratified showed that it was not meant towards a specific race. Unforchunatly they found ways to get around this.. During the 20th century court cases were brought up to challenge the Jim Crow laws.1954 in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Board of Regents and Spottswode Bolling v. C. Melvin Sharpe. Finally Plessy v. Ferguson is the case that overturned the Jim Crow laws once and for all. // . //
 * Background**

Here is a sampling of laws from various states : **Restaurants** It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment. Alabama Intermarriage The marriage of a person of Caucasian blood with a Negro, Mongolian, Malay, or Hindu shall be null and void. Arizona **Burial** The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any colored persons upon ground set apart or used for the burial of white persons. Georgia **Education**-Separate schools shall be maintained for the children of the white and colored races. Mississippi **Transportation** The...Utilities Commission...is empowered and directed to require the establishment of separate waiting rooms at all stations for the white and colored races. //North Carolina// After the Jim Crow laws ended, the racism still continued.
 * Cohabitation** Any negro man and white woman, or any white man and negro woman, who are not married to each other, who shall habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twelve (12) months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred ($500.00) dollars. //Florida//
 * Reform Schools**-The children of white and colored races committed to the houses of reform shall be kept entirely separate from each other. Kentucky
 * The Blind**-The board of trustees shall...maintain a separate building...on separate ground for the admission, care, instruction, and support of all blind persons of the colored or black race. Louisiana
 * Railroads** All railroad companies and corporations, and all persons running or operating cars or coaches by steam on any railroad line or track inthe State of Maryland, for the transportation of passengers, are hereby required to provide separate cars or coaches for the travel and transportation of the white and colored passengers. //Maryland//
 * Promotion of Equality** Any person...who shall be guilty of printing, publishing or circulating printed, typewritten or written matter urging or presenting for public acceptance or general information, arguments or suggestions in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to fine or not exceeding five hundred (500.00) dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months or both. Mississippi
 * Libraries** The state librarian is directed to fit up and maintain a separate place for the use of the colored people who may come to the library for the purpose of reading books or periodicals. //North Carolina//
 * Telephone Booths** The Corporation Commission is hereby vested with power and authority to require telephone companies...to maintain separate booths for white and colored patrons when there is a demand for such separate booths. That the Corporation Commission shall determine the necessity for said separate booths only upon complaint of the people in the town and vicinity to be served after due hearing as now provided by law in other complaints filed with the Corporation Commission. //Oklahoma//
 * Lunch Counters** No persons, firms, or corporations, who or which furnish meals to passengers at station restaurants or station eating houses, in times limited by common carriers of said passengers, shall furnish said meals to white and colored passengers in the same room, or at the same table, or at the same counter. //South Carolina//
 * Child Custody** It shall be unlawful for any parent, relative, or other white person in this State, having the control or custody of any white child,by right of guardianship, natural or acquired, or otherwise, to dispose of, give or surrender such white child permanently into the custody, control, maintenance, or support, of a negro. //South Carolina//
 * Theaters**-Every person...operating...any public hall, theatre, opera house, motion picture show or any place of public entertainment or public assemblage which is attended by both white and colored persons, shall separate the white race and the colored race and shall set apart and designate...certain seats therein to be occupied by white persons and a portion thereof, or certain seats therein, to be occupied by colored persons. //Virginia//
 * Nurses**-No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed. //Alabama//
 * After The Jim Crow Laws **



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