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JIM CROW LAWS BIBLIOGRAPHY
 * 1) Who was Jim Crow? Jim Crow was not a real person. He was a white man, who painted his face with burned cork to look like a "Black Man".
 * 2) When was the Jim Crow Laws Passed? Was passed in 1888
 * 3) Where was the Jim Crow Laws? In Louisiana
 * 4) Why was the Jim Crow Laws Passed? To keep "Whites" Superior.

JIM CROW LAWS EXAMPLES

Homer Plessy a light skinned black man that purchased a first class ticket but was ordered to be seated in the "colored" section on the "East Louisiana Railways", he refused and was jailed. While in court he argued the Fourteenth Amendment" to the U.S. Constitution" had been violated. He was not techinally discriminated against because he was not a "White Man". Where as that is why the colored were seated with the colored and the whites with the whites. Sources:Life under the Jim Crow Laws,Ask.com,http://www.ferris.edu/JIMCROW/what.htm,The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

FACTS Jim Crow laws was passed in 1888 in Louisiana .the Jim crow laws The laws effected many people in many different ways starting with the military they separated whites and blacks they put blacks on the front line and the whites in the back. It also effect kids in school the law made blacks and whites in different schools the white schools were a lot better then the blacks the white schools had a lot more material better education and was in a better location. The black school didn’t have the material the white schools had the black schools didn’t have great books, had bad water fountains, had low education the teachers at the black schools got paid a lot less then if you worked at the white schools. In south was worse then the north. On the busses the blacks were not aloud to sit in the front of the busses or else they would get arrested and would get fine same with the trains, you would be hated if you wee white and you married a black people would count you as a black. Blacks couldn’t eat in certain restaurants couldn’t go in certain movie theaters and hotels. They would make the blacks drink out of different water fountains then the. The whites would have the nice cold water and the blacks would have the hot water. On December the 1st 1955 Rosa Park refused to sit in the back of the bus and give up her seat to a white man that same day she got arrested. People started to look up to her she became a leader to all African Americans. Another leader for African Americans he goes by the name Martin Luther King he did a lot for African Americans he help put together and organize protests against bus segregation Martin Luther king was a preacher of his church and had wanted the same rights as whites. King was arrested and his house got fire bombed. King was known for his speeches and marches, he had a big influence on African Americans king was assainated April 4 1968. But that didn’t stop the blacks for fighting for there rights.