Jim Crow Laws Presentation

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by McKynnli Farley1 view·Updated Apr 28, 2021
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  1. This is my presentation on the Jim Crow laws.
  2. The Jim Crow laws were a set of laws that
  3. were extremely restrictive towards black people and what they could
  4. do. The laws were made to degrade black people while
  5. also holding what people to a standard above them.
  6. Actually, the name Jim Crow came from a fictional character
  7. played by thomas de rise to make fun of black
  8. people and their culture thomas did blackface and completely mocked
  9. everything about black people for comedic purposes, which really is
  10. not funny at all.
  11. The picture here shows what the character Jim Crow looked
  12. like. The Jim Crow laws caused a flare and racial
  13. segregation that was set against black people.
  14. They called black people to be treated and looked upon
  15. horribly in the southern United States.
  16. The laws made even small things harder for them.
  17. The justice system at the time was held by confederate
  18. soldiers who had just lost the war and did not
  19. want black people to have any rights whatsoever.
  20. So they put black people into prison for basically anything
  21. and then treated them like they were slaves in the
  22. prisons after them, supposedly being free.
  23. A big reason for the Jim Crow laws is that
  24. people realized black people were going to be treated equally
  25. and they cannot stand the thought of that.
  26. For whatever reason, this picture shows a sign saying that
  27. they only wanted help if the person was white, which
  28. is an example of what the Jim Crow laws were.
  29. The Jim Crow laws were established in about 1865, which
  30. was a few years after slavery had been abolished in
  31. a bit, after the civil war ended, The laws were
  32. put to a stop in the mid 1960s around this
  33. time, there were also these things called black coats, that
  34. were almost the same as Jim Crow laws.
  35. They were just a bit harsher in some areas.
  36. These two restricted things towards black people work together to
  37. make their lives even worse, the jim crow laws took
  38. place in a large amount of the Southern states, like
  39. Alabama florida Georgia and more.
  40. This is a picture with some examples of jim Crow
  41. laws and how bad they actually were.
  42. The jim Crow laws were caused by the state legislators
  43. which passed them and allowed them to come into their
  44. states. Black people were the ones that were targeted from
  45. the jim Crow laws.
  46. They were meant to limit what they could do and
  47. give white people even more privilege and power than they
  48. already had in the picture.
  49. It shows that the place for laundry, they're only washed
  50. white people's clothes, which is terrible.
  51. Jim Crow laws had a negative impact on society.
  52. They cause people to stray farther from unity and instead
  53. split them up into groups.
  54. The laws furthered racial issues in the United States when
  55. they were supposed to be getting better.
  56. The only good thing caused by the Jim Crow Laws
  57. is that it encouraged people who did not agree with
  58. what the states were doing to fight for the Civil
  59. Rights Act of 1964.
  60. Yeah. To conclude the Jim Crow laws caused extreme racial
  61. segregation to be installed into the United States, and they
  62. also lead progress of unity to be lost.
  63. They cause damage within the South and made unnecessary differences
  64. between races.
  65. This is my work cited, and here is my images
  66. sided.