Jim Crow Laws how it made African-Americans feel.
Jim Crow laws were used in the south due to segregation in the 1950's. These laws were made to discriminate blacks. Jim Crow was not a real person but a fictional person who was actually white.
Education
Education
- Whites and blacks schools had to completely separated.
- Free schools also had to be separated and was unlawful for the two races to mix.
- Textbooks remained the same but it was first come, first serve which truly meant whites got the better education.
- Restaurants could serve blacks and whites but there had to be a barrier 7 ft or higher between the two races and separate entrances.
- Black and white males working together had to use different bathrooms.
- Baseball players could not play in fields next to either race unless it was within two blocks away.
- Movie theaters or public entertainment had to have separate sections and both race employees.
- If you were white you couldn't have a black doctor and if you were black you couldn't have a white doctor.
- There had to be two hospitals on ground and patients of the opposite race could not be in the opposite hospital.
- If you were African descent you still couldn't marry a white person.
- If you were caught with a white or black person and you are the opposite race you could get fined $500 or sent to jail for 12 months.
- Blacks had to sit in the black of trains, subways, and buses.
- When blacks wanted to buy a car they could only go to a blacks only dealership.