Name may has often been attributed to "Jump Jim Crow", a song-and-dance caricature of African Americans (very negative)

Basis for segregation was “Separate but equal” was seen constitutional and upheld by supreme court (Plessy case)

By the end of the lesson I will be able to :

1) explain how the Jim Crow laws discriminated against Black people in the USA

2) explain the role of the Ku Klux Klan in maintaining segregation in the USA

Poll taxes and literary requirements meant many Black people were denied the vote.

White people not affected by this (1866)

Meant that Black people not represented in political system

White pupils and Black pupils attended different schools.

Supreme court stated that as long as they were of equal quality then this was fine.

Summer High School for white Children in Kansas

Black people not allowed to travel in same carriages as white people

also had separate waiting rooms

Plessy challenged this in 1896 but law upheld by Supreme Court

Black people also segregated when eating out

White Coloured

Pool Hall in Memphis

Write down bullet points under the following headings

School Travel Leisure Housing VotingExtension

What effects will the lack of a proper education and not being able to vote have on Black people? Think about housing, standard of living etc

Jim Crow Laws allowed all of this

Why did Black people not fight back?

Research the Ku Klux Klan. What was the organisation and what did they do?