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Civil Rights and Race Relations in the USA, 1850–2009

The spread of Jim Crow Laws

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Recall questions on where the name comes from, what the laws covered, the Florida rail law of 1887, poll taxes and literacy tests, and the white primary.

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How were black southerners excluded from voting?

Key term

What were Jim Crow laws?

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What change to rail travel occurred in Florida in 1887?

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  1. 1

    What were Jim Crow laws?

    Model answer

    State and local laws enforcing racial segregation, mainly in the South.

  2. 2

    What change to rail travel occurred in Florida in 1887?

    Model answer

    Segregation of railway carriages, a model that spread to other states and social areas.

  3. 3

    What was Louisiana's Grandfather clause (1898)?

    Model answer

    A rule exempting from Louisiana's new literacy and property tests any man whose father or grandfather had been entitled to vote before 1867, which admitted poor whites while disenfranchising black voters.

  4. 4

    How did Mississippi exclude black voters from 1890?

    Model answer

    Through literacy tests, poll taxes and 'understanding' clauses (the Mississippi Plan).

  5. 5

    Where does the name Jim Crow come from?

    Model answer

    From a minstrel routine of the 1830s performed in blackface, whose name became attached to the whole system of legal segregation.

  6. 6

    What did Jim Crow laws cover?

    Model answer

    Schools, transport, restaurants, hotels, theatres, parks, hospitals, cemeteries, drinking fountains, waiting rooms and marriage.

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