-Life+in+Jim+Crow+America


 *  1) Right after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment was ratified. What did the 14th Amendment provide for African Americans? What does “due process” and “equal protection of the laws” mean?  [|14th LINK] **
 * The 14th amendment granted citizenship to us once we were enslaved. Due process means that the person must respect the legal rights of the other person. Equal protection of the laws means that the state must ensure equal protection under the law. **

I remember that Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in a "White" car on a train. I also remember when someone took it to court and he purposely sat in the "White" chairs and that got him arrested and the case went to the supreme court.
 *  2) Unfortunately, your equal rights were challenged by the Supreme Court in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. What do you remember about the facts, decision, and impact of this case?  [|Plessy LINK] **

**Jim Crow was not a real person, he was a person in a song and then a stereotypical african american played by a white man. No he did not write the laws.**
 * 3) The laws developed in the South became known as Jim Crow laws. Who was this Jim Crow fellow? Did he write the laws?[| Jim Crow LINK] **


 * 4) What are some specific examples of the Jim Crow laws from southern states? How did the laws affect you? [|Jim Crow Laws LINK 1] /[|Jim Crow Laws LINK 2] / [|Jim Crow Laws LINK 3] **
 * Some of those laws in the south were that there would be separate schools, whites and blacks can't play together, whites and blacks can't get married, ect. These laws made me feel unworthy and useless to the society. They also mad me very sad. **


 * 5) What did Jim Crow America look like in the 1900s? What are some images that can help explain the realities of the time?[|Jim Crow Images LINK 1] / [|Jim Crow Images LINK 2] **
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #ff5e00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; padding-right: 10px;">﻿In the 1900s all of america seemed to be segregated. They even had different drinking fountains for whites and blacks. There are images like, "Colored water cooler" and "White water cooler", Rex's Theater "for colored only", and even "colored waiting room". **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 6) What happened in the Scottsboro Case? How did it make you feel as an African American in the South? <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #001ee6; font-size: 13pt; padding-right: 10px;"> [|Scottsboro LINK] **
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #ff5e00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; padding-right: 10px;">These white guys and black guys got in a fight on a freight train and the white guys were thrown off. They went and told on the blacks and were going to be charged with assault, but then the police found two girls on the train that had sexual relationships with the white dudes. The girls didn't want people to know about this, so the said the black guys raped them. All the jury, which was all white, claimed all of them guilty and all of the black guys except the 12 year old were sentenced to death. This makes me feel sick to my stomach that some girl would actually lie about this kind of thing and then make those kids die, I would feel ashamed. **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">7) Why should anyone care about your lilfe during Jim Crow America? <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Why should I care? Link] **
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #ff5e00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; padding-right: 10px;">﻿I would think people would care because they know its wrong and not what America says it is. America is suppossed to be about freedom not inequality. **