Monday, March 8, 2010

The Jim Crow and Segregation Laws

What are they?

When and Where?

VIDEO: "How to Kill a Mockingbird & The Jim Crow Laws"http://www.youtube.com/watchv=Uc_16sGDkto
Short video that explains easily about the segregation laws and how these, connect with the book: "How to Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.


How did it affect African-American people?


  • Separated in public places, gave more benefits to white people than to colored ones.
    http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/1/96.01.01.x.html (Blue).
  • Difficult for African-Americans to get job because whites wouldn’t hire them.
  • When colored people where hired by whites, they were treated disrespectfully and unfairly.
  • White People took advantage of them.
  • In any raped incidence or fight were a white person and a black person where involved, the black person always ended up in jail.
  • If African-Americans refused to respect the separation of races in public places, they were arrested.
  • Because options for colored people where pitiable, they were bond to poorness.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_Laws
  • Gangs were created who wanted African-Americans dead (The Ku Klux Klan).
  • These groups formed a lot of dread in the black community, their life was in danger.
  • “Living behind the veil”, sentence created by W.F.B Du Bois. Means African-Americans were never listened and their opinion never mattered. They were “invisible” practically. http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/index.html (Smith, Ellis, Aslanian).


http://southcarolina1670.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/thejimcrowlaws-front.jpg


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Segregation_1938b.jpg


VIDEO: "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChWXyeUTKg8
This informative video is and introduction to the Jim Crow laws. It invites you to go see the actual webpage called "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow" where you can experience testimonies of differente afro-americans who where witnesses of the crimes commited by white people in that era.


What was said about black people in that time and how did people react to the prejudices?


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Birmingham_campaign_dogs.jpg



What did white people think about these laws and their effect then and now?
  • Some white people now believe that it was better during Jim Crow Laws because “…race relations were more peaceful… because blacks and whites understood their place within the social order”.
  • They think that way because they weren’t the ones treated unfairly.
  • Hardly any white people suffer culpability for the unfair behavior to colored people.
  • “Present day race relations in the United States continue to be affected by this history”. http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/index.html (Smith, Ellis, Aslanian).
  • White people thought that black people wanted to be slaves, so they didn't feel any remorse about the dreadful actions against them.
  • It was their way of denying what was really happening in reality.
  • Drew Gilpin Faust: "Southerners say they assume that slaves want to be slaves...'If these people don't really want freedom, then we don't have to feel so bad that we have denied it to them'".
  • Mary Lee's opinion of effect of Jim Crow Laws on people: "Political reconstruction is inevitable now, but social reconstruction, we have in our hands and we can prevent".
  • White people wanted Jim Crow to continue because they had a fear that if black people got equal rights, they would want to get revenge for all the horrific treatment they did to them.
  • Drew Gilpin Faust: How people from the South thought: "What are they going to do to me, given what we have done to them".
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/kkk/sf_klan.html


    http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/2000/lynch_3.jpg

VIDEO: "Jim Crow and Apartheid" http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NTTcKZ5jUTA
It´s a short film that shows pictures of what Segregation and the Jim Crow laws really meant for afro-americans.

Works Cited:

- Jennifer Blue. "Jim Crow Laws and their Effects on Race Relations." Race, Racism and the Law: Jim Crow and Segregation. Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, 2010. Web. 4 Mar. 2010. http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/ 1/96.01.01.x.html.

- "Jim Crow laws." Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., , 3 Feb. 2010. Web. 4 Mar. 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Jim_Crow_laws.

- "Q&A: White Southern Responses to Black Emancipation." Reconstruction- The Second Civil War. American Experience- PBS Online, 2004. Web. 8 Mar. 2010. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/kkk/sf_klan.html.

- "The Rise and the Fall of Jim Crow." PBS Online. Educational Broadcasting Corporation, 2002. Web. 8 Mar. 2010. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ jimcrow/.

- Stephen Smith, Kate Ellis, and Sasha Aslanian. "DOCUMENTARY SECTIONS: Bitter Times- Danger,Violence, Explotation-Communities Behind the Veil-Keeping the Past-Resistance-Whites Remember Jim Crow." Remembering Jim Crow. American Radio Works, 2010. Web. 4 Mar. 2010. http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/ index.html.