Jim Crow Laws
Web page #1: Personal Narratives (www.jimcrowhistory.org/resources/narratives.htm)
Pick a narrative.
Read the narrative.
Answer the 5W’s and How listed below:
- 1. Who?
- 2. What did he/she do?
- 3. When did he/she live?
- 4. Where did he/she live?
- 5. Why did he/she do what he/she did?
- 6. How did he/she live during segregation?
Web page #2: History (http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm)
Read the history on Jim Crow Laws, answer the following:
1. What were the rules that African Americans were supposed to follow according to author Stetson Kennedy?
2. What amendments gave African Americans the same rights as whites after the civil war?
So why did African Americans eventually have most of their rights once again withdrawn by Jim Crow Laws?
3. What court case legitimized the continuation of blacks as a second class citizen? Why? What was the ruling of the supreme court?
4. What are “Lynch-Laws?” For what could an African American be Lynched?
Now scroll back to the top and click on “MORE PICTURES.” Look through the pictures and choose two pictures and explain how the picture visually represents the everyday segregation that became “The Way It Was” during the “Jim Crow” era.
