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Alex Towle

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"Separate but Equal" Legislation

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Alex Towle and Alyssa Schoenfeldt

Jim Crow Laws 1876 - 1965

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

Brown v. Board of Education Topeka- 1954

  • Jim Crow was the name of a musical routine originally called "Jump Jim Crow"
  • Evolved into laws that forced racial segregation
  • Laws mostly affected southern states
  • Separated public places and prevented interracial marriage and cohabitation

  • Ruled that public places that were racially separate were legal if they were equal
  • Overturned separate but equal
  • Composed of several court cases that struck down injustices
  • Claimed the previous doctrine suggested that blacks were inferior rather than equal
  • Unanimous vote to rule segregation as unconstitutional
  • Separation of schools is unconstitutional
  • Students are allowed to attend and teach at both schools
  • Blacks were allowed to buy houses in a white neighborhood
  • Stopped segregation on buses and trains
  • Preceded by the Separate Car Act - 1890
  • Racially separated bus and train cars
  • Law did not apply to interstate travel
  • Homer Plessy tried to ride in a white car (he wanted to see if he would be moved because he is ⅞ white and ⅛ black)
  • He was asked to moved and later charged with breaking the law and eventually led to Plessy v Ferguson
  • The case said that the Separate Car Act did not violate equal protection clause of the constitution

1954

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1896

Demarcation of Public Places

NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Abused, beaten, and/or jailed if the segregation line was crossed

  • Parking spaces
  • Movie Theaters
  • Restaurants
  • Water Fountains
  • Schools
  • Hospitals
  • Bathrooms
  • Waiting Rooms
  • Neighborhoods
  • Neighborhoods and prices of homes were changed in price to exclude
  • Refusal to rent (apartments)
  • High mortgages
  • Forced to live in rundown areas
  • Lead to overcrowding
  • (⅓ of population lived in 20% of land)

  • The nation’s oldest Civil Rights group
  • Sought to fight lynching through an anti-lynching law
  • Wanted to bring awareness about the unjustness of the Jim Crow laws
  • Set out to prove that schools were not equal
  • Schools spend about $37 on white students compared to about $13 black students
  • Thurgood Marshall, a member, helped win the Brown v Board of Education case along with other members of the NAACP

  • http://what-when-how.com/social-sciences/separate-but-equal-social-science/
  • http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/separate-but-equal.html
  • http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/sepbutequal.htm
  • http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm
  • http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/303897/Jim-Crow-law
  • http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1595.html
  • http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-legal-history
  • http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/464679/Plessy-v-Ferguson/288363/Dissenting-opinion