Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow Laws were enforced in the United States from 1877 to 1954 restricting the rights of blacks. Scholars mark the end of Jim Crow with the Brown v Board of Education case. |
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"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery."
~W.E.B Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America~
Jim Crow Laws:
- “Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school.”
- “All railroads carrying passengers in the state (other than street railroads) shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more passenger cars for each passenger train, or by dividing the cars by a partition, so as to secure separate accommodations.”
- “It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other in any game of cards or dice, dominoes or checkers.”
- “No colored barber shall serve as a barber to white women or girls.”
- “Marriages are void when one party is a white person and the other is possessed of one-eighth or more negro, Japanese, or Chinese blood.”