Group 3: Jim Crow Laws
Group 3,
Your job is to become an expert on the history of the Jim Crow Laws. Click on the links below to learn about what these laws were, why they were put into place, and the effects they had on society and its people during this time period. 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 the Jim Crow Laws.
Links:
http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/jimcrow/who.htm
http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/a-brief-history-of-jim-crow#.UVs9CpNQFK0
http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
Questions:
1. Where did the term "Jim Crow" come from? How is the origin of this term offensive?
2. What were some of the Jim Crow laws? Give at least three examples.
3. Legally, African-Americans had the right to vote. How was their right to suffrage compromised (made nearly impossible) with the Jim Crow laws?
4. How did the Plessy v. Ferguson case uphold Jim Crow laws? What effect did this have on the lives (transportation, education, social implications, etc.) of southern blacks?
5. How did some African-Americans "fight back" against Jim Crow laws and other discrimination?
6. Under Jim Crow, black facilities were often of far poorer quality than those reserved for whites; therefore, separate rarely meant equal. If blacks and whites had received equal (but still separate) treatment, would Jim Crow laws have been fair? Why or why not?
7. What role might the Jim Crow lays play in To Kill a Mockingbird? Knowing that the father in the story is a lawyer, how might this come into play as well?
Your job is to become an expert on the history of the Jim Crow Laws. Click on the links below to learn about what these laws were, why they were put into place, and the effects they had on society and its people during this time period. 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 the Jim Crow Laws.
Links:
http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/jimcrow/who.htm
http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/a-brief-history-of-jim-crow#.UVs9CpNQFK0
http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
Questions:
1. Where did the term "Jim Crow" come from? How is the origin of this term offensive?
2. What were some of the Jim Crow laws? Give at least three examples.
3. Legally, African-Americans had the right to vote. How was their right to suffrage compromised (made nearly impossible) with the Jim Crow laws?
4. How did the Plessy v. Ferguson case uphold Jim Crow laws? What effect did this have on the lives (transportation, education, social implications, etc.) of southern blacks?
5. How did some African-Americans "fight back" against Jim Crow laws and other discrimination?
6. Under Jim Crow, black facilities were often of far poorer quality than those reserved for whites; therefore, separate rarely meant equal. If blacks and whites had received equal (but still separate) treatment, would Jim Crow laws have been fair? Why or why not?
7. What role might the Jim Crow lays play in To Kill a Mockingbird? Knowing that the father in the story is a lawyer, how might this come into play as well?