Background
Under the Jim Crow laws, how were black people viewed by general society?
as second class citizens / beneath white people / servants / inferior
Could a black person compliment a white person?
No
What are literacy tests?
Overly-demanding tests specifically exploiting the lack of education provided to black communities at the time
The most extreme form of Jim Crow violence was ________.
Lynching
What was the part of the country where the majority of the Lynching's occurred?
Southern and Border States
Jim Crow referred to a _______ system.
racial caste
Where did a black person sit in a car?
Black people were to sit in the backseat or back of a truck when a white person was driving the car.
What are poll taxes?
Fees charged to poor black people discouraged them from even trying to vote
Violence was a method of ________.
Social control
What was the immediate goal of lynch mobs that attacked black people and communities?
To "keep black people in their place"
During what time period were Jim Crow laws enforced?
1877 - mid 1960s / Gilded Age / 19th century to 20th century
Why could a black man not offer a cigarette to a white woman?
This implied intimacy, which was forbidden and incredibly stigmatized
What are grandfather laws?
Only people with ancestors who could vote before the Civil War could vote. This was only white people at the time
The Jim Crow laws and system of etiquette were undergirded by violence both _________.
real and threatened.
When was the first reliable data on lynching's collected?
1882
Where did the name "Jim Crow" come from?
It was the name of popular theater persona that was a racist depiction of African-Americans and their culture.
What was the name of the book that provided the rules that minorities were expected to follow?
Jim Crow Guide to the USA
What are white primaries?
Allowing only Democrats to vote, which was an all-white party at the time
Black people who violated Jim Crow social norms risked _____.
How many lynchings occurred between the years 1882 and 1968?
4730
What is one way that Jim Crow encouraged and perpetuated anti-black racism?
The system is based on racist ideologies
The rules/norms are centered around the comfort of white people
Who wrote the book that provided rules that minorities were supposed to follow in the society Jim Crow had created?
Stetson Kennedy
What type(s) of government enforced methods that would force black people and other minorities the right to vote?
Federal and local
Why did black people receive such little legal recourse for the assaults?
Because the Jim Crow justice system was all white
How many, out of the total number of lynchings, were of black men or women?
3440