Segregation Laws Flashcards
What were Jim Crowe laws?
Lawns in the southern states of America between 1876 and 1965.
What did Jim Crowe laws do?
Segregated whites from blacks in public schools, public places and on public transport.
What were the Jim Crowe laws in Arizona?
The marriage between a white and a negro shall be null and void.
What were the Jim Crowe laws in Florida?
The schools for white children and the schools for Negro children shall be conducted separately.
What were the Jim Crowe laws in Georgia?
All persons licensed to run a restaurant shall serve either white people exclusively or coloured people exclusively.
What were the Jim Crowe laws in North Carolina?
Books shall not be interchangeable between white and coloured schools.
What were the Jim Crowe laws in Texas?
Separate facilities are required for black and white citizens in state parks.
What did ‘Black Codes’ do?
Went alongside Jim Crowe laws and limited civil rights and civil liberties of Black Americans.
What was the poll tax?
A tax had to be paid, by blacks, in order to be able to vote.
What was the problem with the poll tax?
Most people were too poor to pay the tax.
What were literacy tests?
In order to vote black people had to prove they could read extracts.
What was wrong with literacy tests?
They were marked by white Americans who nearly always failed them.
In Mississippi what percentage of blacks were registered to vote?
5%.
Who were blacks not protected by?
The law, as judges were prejudice and all juries were white.
What did the police do to the blacks?
They discriminated against them.
