CREATING, RESISTING, AND ESCAPING JIM CROW Presented by: Breanna Navarre Hussein Charara Ibtesam Mustafa
CREATING, RESISTING, AND ESCAPING JIM CROW
Presented by:Breanna NavarreHussein ChararaIbtesam Mustafa
Creating Jim Crow
Breanna Navarre
Who and What was Jim Crow?• Shortened form of the Jim
Crow Laws
• Everything from child custody to courtesy titles
• Practiced in but not limited to the south
• Exaggerated racial stereotype based on an overly compliant black character in 19th century minstrel shows
• Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice
• Segregation laws
• Racial slur
“Creating Jim Crow”• Religious leaders
and theologians
• Backed by individual beliefs and rationalizations
• Racial stereotype
• Name came from T.D. Rice
• Rice stirred racial segregation
“Under Jim Crow’s Thumb”• Written guide by
Stetson Kennedy
• 13th,14th,15th amendments gave rights
• State laws took rights away
Ibtesam Mustafa
RESISTING JIM CROW
HOW DID THEY RESIST?
W.E.B DU BOIS EDUCATED AFRICAN AMERICANS TO “LEAD THE MASSES IN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC RESISTANCE TO JIM CROW.”
AFRICAN AMERICANS STAGED WALKS AFRICAN AMERICANS CREATED
MUSIC THAT DISPLAYED THAT BLACK CULTURE WAS SOPHISTICATED
MANY RIOTS OCCURED
Escaping Jim Crow
Hussein Charara
W.E.B. Du Bois• First African American to receive a Ph. D. from Harvard University
•Played a large role in the formation of the NAACP
•Challenged the ideas of one of the most influential African American leaders Booker T. Washington
•Main contributor in fight against Jim Crow Laws
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, officially ending segregation, and the Jim Crow Era in the south.
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