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SIGNS OF JIM CROWfrom the Library of Congress Collection
Produced by Carole Weatherford
Author,
Freedom on the Menu:
The Greensboro Sit-Ins
Co-produced by Jeffery Weatherford
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What were Jim Crow laws?
From the 1880s into the 1960s, most American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows). From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for mingling with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep blacks and whites separated.
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Some Facilities that Were Separate:
Bus station waiting rooms and ticket windows
Railroad cars or coaches
Restaurants and lunch counters
Schools and public parks
Restrooms and water fountains
Sections of movie theaters
There were even separate cemeteries
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At the bus station, Durham, North Carolina, 1940.
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Greyhound bus terminal, Memphis, Tennessee. 1943.
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A rest stop for bus passengers on the way from Louisville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee, with separate entrance
for Blacks. 1943.
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A sign at bus station, Rome, Georgia. 1943.
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A highway sign advertising tourist cabins for Blacks, South Carolina. 1939.
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Cafe, Durham, North Carolina. 1939.
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Drinking fountain on the courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina. 1938.
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Movie theater’s "Colored" entrance, Belzoni, Mississippi. 1939.
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The Rex theater for colored people, Leland, Mississippi. June 1937.
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Restaurant, Lancaster, Ohio. 1938.
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Water cooler in the street car terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1939.
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Sign above movie theater, Waco, Texas. 1939.
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Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee. 1939.
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Related Titles by Carole Boston Weatherford
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About Carole Boston Weatherford
Weatherford’s books have won the Carter G. Woodson Award from National Council for the Social Studies, North Carolina Juvenile Literature Award, an NAACP Image Award nomination, and IRA Teachers Choice and NCTE and NCSS Notables honors. A college professor, she presents school and professional development programs nationwide. Her 19 books include:
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
A Negro League Scrapbook
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People
Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City
Contact: 336-887-4505; [email protected]
www.caroleweatherford.com
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Picture Books on Segregation & Civil Rights
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Bibliography Johnson, Angela, ill. by Eric Velasquez. A Sweet Smell of Roses. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 2005.
McKissack, Patrica, ill. by Jerry Pinkney. Goin’ Someplace Special. New York: Atheneum, 2001.
Miller, William, ill. by Cedric Lucas. Night Golf. New York: Lee & Low, 1999.
Ringgold, Faith. If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Weatherford, Carole Boston. A Negro League Scrapbook. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 2005.
Weatherford, Carole Boston, ill. by Jerome Lagarrigue. Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins. New York: Dial, 2005.
Weatherford, Carole Boston. Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People. New York: Philomel, 2002.
Wiles, Deborah, ill. by Jerome Lagarrigue. Freedom Summer. New York: Atheneum, 2001.
Woodson, Jacqueline, ill. by E. B. Lewis. The Other Side. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001.