Jim Crow Laws Outline

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Running head: Jim Crow Laws

Introduction The Jim Crow laws created in the 1880 have affected many African Americans and have caused many disadvantages for their lives in the areas of education, jobs, and even mobile transportation.
I. Education
A.) Jim Crow laws in education mandated that blacks to attend different schools than whites. According to the government, blacks and whites had to be separate but equal. However, that wasn't the case, especially in the south. The schools set aside for African Americans were usually in poor condition and had inferior resources.
B.) Fewer African Americans were enrolled in school. Black children were frequently pulled out of school because they were needed to work on farms. A large number of their parents were sharecroppers. To plant and
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On trains, they were confined to separate, inferior Jim Crow cars. In railroad dining cars, a curtain separated black passengers from whites.
B.) On city public transportation, black and white passengers were separate and unequal. Black passengers were required to sit at the back of buses and trolleys--and to give up their seats to whites on demand. Black passengers who challenged Jim Crow on public transportation systems faced insult, personal injury, arrest, and even death at the hands of angry whites.

Conclusion The Jim Crow era lasted for almost a 100 years, mostly because the U.S. government and the majority of non-black Americans ignored or condoned the blatant apartheid and the injustice associated with it. The official institution of Jim Crow fell in the 1950s and 1960s, when the Civil Rights Movement effectively destroyed many of the legal, political, and social structures that slowed African American progress for