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Jim Crow was actually the name of Stephen's first black friend, before Alan. This article is a stub. You can get a Tip of the Hat* from Stephen by adding only truthiness to it.*Tip of the Hat not guaranteed. Jim Crow was also a set of post Civil War laws made by people who thought the North's win was temporary. They wanted to avoid their children having children with athletic abilities.

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  • Jim Crow was actually the name of Stephen's first black friend, before Alan. This article is a stub. You can get a Tip of the Hat* from Stephen by adding only truthiness to it.*Tip of the Hat not guaranteed. Jim Crow was also a set of post Civil War laws made by people who thought the North's win was temporary. They wanted to avoid their children having children with athletic abilities.
  • Jim Crow was a system used mainly in The South of the United States that forced white people and African-Americans to have separate facilities, with the facilities for black people being much worse than what white people had. Black children went to worse schools and got worse education which made it very much harder for black people to improve their lives and avoid poverty. Black people faced discrimination in public baths, restaurants, hotels etc., one particularly humiliating case of discrimination was public transport. Until the middle of the 20th Century the Federal Government did too little to prevent segregation.
  • So, during the 1870s and 1880s the supreme court failed to overturn the poll tax or the grandfather clause even though the laws undermined all federal protections for the Africans Americans civil rights. Blacks law voting rights southern states passed racial segregation laws to seperate whites and blacks people in public and private facilities (Antoinette - please rewrite this sentence so its clearer and then delete my comments here. Otherwise, good stuff--Ricstol 16:49, 23 March 2006 (UTC)). These laws were known as Jim Crow laws. The racial rules were put into efffect in schools, hospital, parks, and transportation system through out the south. Marriages and religion were both segregated by race. Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP were among the few who chipped away at the jim crow laws to
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  • Jim Crow was a system used mainly in The South of the United States that forced white people and African-Americans to have separate facilities, with the facilities for black people being much worse than what white people had. Black children went to worse schools and got worse education which made it very much harder for black people to improve their lives and avoid poverty. Black people faced discrimination in public baths, restaurants, hotels etc., one particularly humiliating case of discrimination was public transport. Until the middle of the 20th Century the Federal Government did too little to prevent segregation. There was a humiliating etiquette, for example white people called black adults by their first name, as if they were Children, while black people had to show more respect and call white people Mr/Mrs/Miss followed by the second name.
  • So, during the 1870s and 1880s the supreme court failed to overturn the poll tax or the grandfather clause even though the laws undermined all federal protections for the Africans Americans civil rights. Blacks law voting rights southern states passed racial segregation laws to seperate whites and blacks people in public and private facilities (Antoinette - please rewrite this sentence so its clearer and then delete my comments here. Otherwise, good stuff--Ricstol 16:49, 23 March 2006 (UTC)). These laws were known as Jim Crow laws. The racial rules were put into efffect in schools, hospital, parks, and transportation system through out the south. Marriages and religion were both segregated by race. Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP were among the few who chipped away at the jim crow laws to stop segregation.
  • Jim Crow was actually the name of Stephen's first black friend, before Alan. This article is a stub. You can get a Tip of the Hat* from Stephen by adding only truthiness to it.*Tip of the Hat not guaranteed. Jim Crow was also a set of post Civil War laws made by people who thought the North's win was temporary. They wanted to avoid their children having children with athletic abilities.
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