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Jim Crow Law: Jim Crow Laws
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Jim Crow laws extended into almost every facet of public life. The laws stipulated that blacks use separate entrances into public buildings, have separate restrooms and drinking fountains, and sit in the back of trains and buses. Blacks and whites were not allowed to be served food in the same room in a restaurant, play pool together, share the same prisons, or be buried in the same cemeteries. African Americans couldn’t play professional sports with white teammates or serve in the armed forces with white soldiers. Black children were educated in separate schools. Black barbers couldn’t wait on white female clients, and white female nurses couldn’t attend to black male patients.
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Brown marked a turning point in the battle against the institution of segregation that Jim Crow laws had created. It was not the death knell.... Much remained to be done not only to topple legal restrictions but to remove the barriers of prejudice and violence that stood in the way of full integration. The final blows were administered by the civil rights movement, whose boycotts, sit-ins, and lawsuits continued over the next two decades. By the mid-1960s, the last vestiges of legal segregation were ended by a series of federal laws including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C.A. § 2000a et seq.), the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C.A.
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Jim Crow laws touched every aspect of everyday life. For example, in 1935, Oklahoma prohibited blacks and whites from boating together. Boating implied social equality. In 1905, Georgia established separate parks for blacks and whites. In 1930, Birmingham, Alabama, made it illegal for blacks and whites to play checkers or dominoes together. Here are some of the typical Jim Crow laws, as compiled by the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site interpretive staff:
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Context: Explain how the Jim Crow laws could be considered legal under the Fourteenth Amendment (which guaranteed African Americans equal protection under the law). What view of segregation does Zora Neale Hurston take in her depiction of Eatonville, Florida? How does this compare to the depiction of southern segregation in photos taken by white photographers from this era?
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Opposition to the policy of Jim Crow came chiefly from African Americans. Early leadership was provided by the Afro-American National League in the 1890s and, after the turn of the century, the influential author and activist W. E. B. Du Bois. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), established in 1909, became the most powerful force for the repeal of Jim Crow laws during the next half century. The NAACP fought numerous battles in two important arenas: the court of public opinion and the courts of law.
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In Alabama, the Jim Crow laws were very specific and included separation in buses, trains, restaurants, pool and billiard rooms, male toilet facilities and hospitals. Bus stations required separate waiting rooms and ticket windows for whites and blacks. Train conductors had to divide different races into different cars on a train. In restaurants, it was illegal to have whites and blacks in the same room, unless they were separated by a 7 foot or higher wall. One law said that nurses could not be forced to work in wards or rooms in hospitals, public or private, where black men were placed.
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