Group D and E: Jim Crow Laws
Your job is to become an expert about the history of Jim Crow laws. Please read the link below. When you are finished, answer the questions provided to you. Be sure to read carefully because you will be teaching your classmates everything you know about Jim Crow Laws.
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/overview.htm
http://ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/what.htm
Questions:
1. Where did the term "Jim Crow" come from? How is the origin of this term offensive? List 3 ways.
2. How did the term "Jim Crow" become synonymous with the segregation laws in the South?
3. What ended Reconstruction in the South, and what effect did that have on southern blacks?
4. Legally, African-Americans had the right to vote. How was their right to suffrage compromised? Please list 3 ways whites made it nearly impossible for blacks to vote.
5. How did the Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896) uphold Jim Crow laws? What effect did this case have on the lives (transportation, education, social implications, etc) of southern blacks?
6. Who was Booker T. Washington? Where did he live? What did he believe was the best way for southern African-Americans to survive in the South?
7. Who was W.E.B. DuBois? Where did he live? What did he believe was the best way for southern African-Americans to survive in the South?
8. Why do you think Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois had differing opinions on how to survive in the South? Please give 3 facts to support your opinion.
9. How did many southern blacks escape the South? Where did they go? What was this movement called?
10. Identify at least two Jim Crow laws and put them in your own words.
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/overview.htm
http://ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/what.htm
Questions:
1. Where did the term "Jim Crow" come from? How is the origin of this term offensive? List 3 ways.
2. How did the term "Jim Crow" become synonymous with the segregation laws in the South?
3. What ended Reconstruction in the South, and what effect did that have on southern blacks?
4. Legally, African-Americans had the right to vote. How was their right to suffrage compromised? Please list 3 ways whites made it nearly impossible for blacks to vote.
5. How did the Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896) uphold Jim Crow laws? What effect did this case have on the lives (transportation, education, social implications, etc) of southern blacks?
6. Who was Booker T. Washington? Where did he live? What did he believe was the best way for southern African-Americans to survive in the South?
7. Who was W.E.B. DuBois? Where did he live? What did he believe was the best way for southern African-Americans to survive in the South?
8. Why do you think Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois had differing opinions on how to survive in the South? Please give 3 facts to support your opinion.
9. How did many southern blacks escape the South? Where did they go? What was this movement called?
10. Identify at least two Jim Crow laws and put them in your own words.