Segregation

-Segregation was legal at this time.
-Segregation ensured that African Americans were treated as second class citizens.
-In the south, segregation was required by statutes called Jim Crow laws.
-The name Jim Crow comes from a minstrel show routine called "Jump Jim Crow" in which a white entertainer in blackface and baggy clothes grinned as he performed unflattering caricatures of African American song and dance.
-By the early 1900s, Jim Crow laws dominated almost every aspect of southern daily life.
-They required the separation of blacks and whites in schools, parks, public buildings, hospitals, and on transportation systems.
-African Americans and whites were not lowed to use the same water fountain or public toilet.