Your job is to become an expert about the history of Jim Crow laws. Please read the link below. When you are finished, answer the questions provided to you. Be sure to read carefully because you will be teaching your classmates everything you know about Jim Crow Laws.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm
https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/origins.htm
https://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/white-only-1.html
For #6-#8: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/debate-w-e-b-du-bois-and-booker-t-washington/
Questions:
1. Where did the term "Jim Crow" come from? How is the origin of this term offensive? List 3 ways.
2. What was the Jim Crow Laws "doctrine"? What was it supposed to achieve? Explain whether or not doctrine was followed and how.
3. Provide examples of the Jim Crow Laws. Include images in your slides (comparisons).
4. Legally, African-Americans had the right to vote. Please list 3 ways whites made it nearly impossible for blacks to vote. See the last link for clear reasons.
5. How did the Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896) uphold Jim Crow laws? What effect did this case have on the lives (transportation, education, social implications, etc) of southern blacks?
6. Who was Booker T. Washington? Where did he live? What did he believe was the best way for southern African-Americans to survive in the South?
7. Who was W.E.B. DuBois? Where did he live? What did he believe was the best way for southern African-Americans to survive in the South?
8. Why do you think Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois had differing opinions on how to survive in the South? Please give 3 facts to support your opinion.
9. How did many southern African Americans escape the South? Where did they go? What was this movement called?