Jim Crow Laws

The Jim Crow Laws were everywhere. African Americans were forced to have thre own hotels and motels as well. It also would provide more jobs that were available to African Americans.

The Jim Crow Laws were not only against African Americans.

These people prepare to walk into the "Colored entrance" in a diner.

The term "Jim Crow" was formed in a theater when a white man darkened his face and sang the song, "Jump Jim Crow!"

This is a picture of how the Jim Crow Laws have affected kids.

ARTISTS STATEMENTS
My name is Lauren Meininger, co-artist of this art peice. Andrew and I studied the Jim Crow Laws for our quilt piece. Our piece is really about the segregation that the Jim Crow Laws implemented. It shows that for part of it, even though they were free slaves, many of them still had to work on plantations to get enough money for their families to live off of. While doing my research, it came more and more apparent to me that the Jim Crow Laws were evil. They inspired the Klu Klux Klan, and no good came from that. African Americans should have equal rights, bit the Jim Crow Laws denied them that. I enjoyed making this quilt piece to show what the Jim Crow Laws were.

My name is Andrew Wheeler, we studied the Jim Crow Laws. The line through the middle of the paperis a line showing the segregation. On the top, the white side, the fancy circle is an expensive umbrella symbolizing riches. Next to that is a Klu Klux Klan hat showing dirty rottenness intwined with riches. Since the term "Jim Crow" was a stage act, I have happy sad masks for both sides. On the black side, the pitchfork symbolizes the manual labor of the blacks. The open manicals on top show the slaves being freed, but still tethered down by the ball on the bottom.