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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Evaluate responses and prepare students for further research on Jim Crow laws using the resources listed above or other sources available in your school or community.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Although slavery was formally abolished in the late nineteenth century, the remnants of slavery articulated in Jim Crow laws were an effective means to continue privilege based simply on skin color.
Faced with increasing segregation and more Jim Crow laws in the late 1800s, black Americans began to protest for dignity and equality.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Emmett Till broke the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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World War I, Jim Crow laws, entrenched social segregation in the South, and the Great Migration were historical landmarks that ushered in the black experience in the first third of the 20th century.
The name Jim Crow is often used to describe the segregation laws, rules, and customs which arose after Reconstruction ended in 1877 and continued until the mid-1960s.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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Jim Crow laws were laws that imposed racial segregation, which were used to restrict the freedom of African Americans.
This sense of the superiority of the white race and thus the inferiority of the colored races helps explain the rise of Jim Crow segregation laws within the United States during this period.
But Love was later affected by Jim Crow laws, which stated the blacks and whites had separate but equal rights.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Congress passed the act specifically to dismantle the Jim Crow laws - including poll taxes and literacy tests - that kept blacks from voting in the South for most of the 20th century.
Jim Crow Laws, Poll Taxes, Black Codes are all political policies of the Democratic Party.
Not since the Jim Crow laws of an earlier day, have I seen such prejudice and hostility towards a minority group endorsed by any government agency within the United States.
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