Jim+Crow+life+in+America

=== **1) Right after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment was ratified. What did the 14th Amendment provide for African ** ===

=== **The fourteenth amendment granted us citizenship and protect our civil liberties. "Due process" is no matter who it is no one can be thrown in jail without a court case. "Equal protection of the laws" is that no matter who might be accused of a crime they would receive the same punishment as any one else. ** ===

=== ** 2) Unfortunately, your equal rights were challenged by the Supreme Court in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. What do you remember about the facts, decision, and impact of this case? ** === === ** In 1892 Louisiana passed an act saying that there could be separate things. A black civil rights organization said that it was went against the Thirteenth and Fourteenth amendment. Homer Plessy who was not white or black sat in a car that was suppose to be for a white person. The case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court were they decided that things can be separated as long as they are equal. This was for restrooms, buses, water fountains, etc. ** ===

** 3) The laws developed in the South became known as Jim Crow laws. Who was this Jim Crow fellow? Did he write the laws? **
=== **Daddy Rice was the first ever Jim Crow who went around American and the world pretending to dress up like a black person and act. He would make the audience think that African Americans were lazy and stupid and did not deserve integration. He did not write the laws but his acting set the stage for the laws to be written. ** ===

=== ** 5) What did Jim Crow America look like in the 1900s? What are some images that can help explain the realities of the time? ** === === ** Jim Crow was mostly public areas that only some people could go to or use. For example theaters, railroads and even Juvenile Convicts were segregated. ** ===

** 6) What happened in the Scottsboro Case? How did it make you feel as an African American in the South? **
=== ** There were blacks and whites on a train looking for work when a fight broke out. The whites were thrown off the train and then they reported the incident to a stationmaster who had the train stop. They were going to be charged with assault when two white women were found hiding on the train were boy clothes. They had a relationship with some of the white men so they said that they were rapped so they were not found guilty of anything. Nine African American boys were charged with rapping the two women and sentenced to death. The reason is because the jury was all-white. ** === === ** This is crazy I will tell you right now that they are innocent. If it was nine white boys that rapped two black girls then they would not have of been found as guilty or maybe not guilty as all. This makes are image loo bad as well and they had no evidence saying they did it. ** ===

**7) Why should anyone care about your lilfe during Jim Crow America? **
=== **People should care about my life during Jim Crow America because it is important that we were treated badly and that many things were not for us. We could not enjoy life as we should of had it and many people died because of our fighting. It is important that we come together and share or ideas with fighting and not worrying about who is more "equal". ** ===