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SIGNS OF JIM CROWfrom the Library of Congress Collection
Produced by Carole Weatherford
Author,
Freedom on the Menu:
The Greensboro Sit-Ins
Co-produced by Jeffery Weatherford
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What were Jim Crow laws?
From the 1880s into the 1960s, most American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows). From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for mingling with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep blacks and whites separated.
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The "Jim Crow" figure was a fixture of the minstrel shows that toured the South; a white man made up as a black man sang and mimicked stereotypical behavior in the name of comedy.
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/gallery.cgi?collection=crow
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Some Facilities that Were Separate:
Bus station waiting rooms and ticket windows
Railroad cars or coaches
Restaurants and lunch counters
Schools and public parks
Restrooms and water fountains
Sections of movie theaters
There were even separate cemeteries
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Philadelphia, 1889: Removing an African American from a Philadelphia Railway car--after the implementation of Jim Crow, the integration imposed by Reconstruction was stripped away by new laws.
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/gallery.cgi?collection=crow
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At the bus station, Durham, North Carolina, 1940.
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Greyhound bus terminal, Memphis, Tennessee. 1943.
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A rest stop for bus passengers on the way from Louisville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee, with
separate entrance for Blacks. 1943.
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A sign at bus station, Rome, Georgia. 1943.
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The costumes and rituals of the new Ku Klux Klan became symbols of terror in America during the first three decades of the twentieth century. (1915). The new Klan spread all over the nation with a membership numbering over three million in the 1920s.
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/gallery.cgi?collection=crow
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A highway sign advertising tourist cabins for Blacks, South Carolina. 1939.
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Lynching of Rubin Stacy for allegedly attacking a white woman. 1935
http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/remembering/bitter.html
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Cafe, Durham, North Carolina. 1939.
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Drinking fountain on the courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina. 1938.
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Movie theater’s "Colored" entrance, Belzoni, Mississippi. 1939.
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The Rex theater for colored people, Leland, Mississippi. June 1937.
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Restaurant, Lancaster, Ohio. 1938.
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Water cooler in the street car terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1939.
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Sign above movie theater, Waco, Texas. 1939.
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Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee. 1939.
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Detroit 1944: Pallbearers with casket walking in front of sign reading "here lies Jim Crow" during the
NAACP Detroit branch "Parade for Victory."http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/gallery.cgi?collection=crow