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 * To set the stage for the civil rights movement, you must first understand the environment of segregation in the United States in the first half of the 20th century. What was life like in Jim Crow America? Cut and paste this information into a new page in your Unit 8 Online Notebook. You (and your partner, if you have one) are African Americans who have lived through the era of Jim Crow in America. Using the links provided in this activity, respond to the “oral history questions” in first person . You can do this in Word by copying this document onto a new document , completing it using the resources below, and cutting and pasting it into a new page on your notebook. Make sure your responses are in first person! **

==** //The 14th Amendment provided to grant citizenship to, and protect the civil liberties of us recently freed slaves. The Equal Protection of the Laws was made to not allow governments of deprive our lives, liberty, or property without certain steps being taken to ensure fairness, a.k.a "Due Process", (Court Casing). Laws effect everyone equally and the government has to protect every person's rights and laws equally.// **==
 * 1) Right after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment was ratified. What did the 14th Amendment provide for African Americans? What does “due process” and “equal protection of the laws” mean?  [|14th LINK] **

==**// Homer Plessy TOLD people he was "colored" and would sit in the "white" car because he wanted this case to go to court. I remember Plessy being jailed for sitting in the "White" Car of the East Louisiana Railroad, but Plessy's lawyer was trying to argue that the separate car act went against the 13th and 14th Amendment. The impact I remember of this case is that the government and court say that the separation facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were "equal." //**==
 * 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?  [|Plessy LINK] **

== **//Jim Crow was a stock character in minstrel shows, along with counterparts Jim Dandy and Sip Coon. He was a character made with Blackface effects a.k.a when a white actor has to portray us in a show, so they would take brown make up and cover their face to show a "black" person, they wore tattered clothing, they used stereotypical accents, and used bad grammar. No he did not, but they used Jim Crow Laws to separate us from the whites in places such as cars, waiting lines, drinking fountains, bathrooms, the circus, seating, jails, voting, 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? [|Jim Crow LINK] **

Some specific examples of how the Jim Crow laws affected myself were if you wanted to get married, and one person was white, and the other person was at least 1/8 African American, the marriage was not allowed. Another good example that also affected me the most is throughout the 20th century, us African Americans had to live in a system of racial segregation. That affected me the most because we were treated differently and it wasn't a good feeling to not be able to live where you wanted to because of the color of your skin. = **[|Jim Crow Laws LINK 1]  / [|Jim Crow Laws LINK 2] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">/ <span style="background-color: initial; color: #001ee6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> [|Jim Crow Laws LINK 3] / **** [|Jim Crow Laws Link 4] ** =
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">4) What are some specific examples of the Jim Crow laws from southern states? How did the laws affect you? Which on edo you feel is the worst? **

==== In Jim Crow America looked like in the 1900s was, things were very, very segregated, things such as waiting rooms, theaters, drinking fountains, schools, entrances to factories, bus stations, and so much more. ====
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">5) What did Jim Crow America look like in the 1900s? What are some images that can help explain the realities of the time? <span style="background-color: initial; color: #6e1a7e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">[|Jim Crow Images LINK 1] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">/ <span style="background-color: initial; color: #001ee6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">[|Jim Crow Images LINK 2] **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">What happened in the Scottsboro Case was nine African American boys were on a freight train and were convicted of raping two white girls, who had never even had sexual relations with these African Americans. The verdict of the case was all nine boys, except the youngest one, who was twelve, were sentenced to death.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">6) What happened in the Scottsboro Case? How did it make you feel as an African American in the South? <span style="background-color: initial; color: #001ee6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> [|Scottsboro LINK] **

== People should care about our life during Jim Crow America because we faced some extremely hard and difficult times, and it was not easy living during this era because of the way that people treated us just because of the color of our skin. ==
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">7) Why should anyone care about your lilfe during Jim Crow America? [|Why should I care? Link] **