Jim Crow Laws

"Jim Crow" can be best described as which of these?

• a set of laws, the era defined by those laws and the attitudes that those laws reflected

• social customs against southern state laws

• an activist who fought to end segregation in the South after Reconstruction

• a series of marriage laws and customs

True or False: Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy, was lynched in 1955.

• Tue

• False

Which of these occurred first?

• Homer Plessy sat in a train car for white people only.

• Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.

Which of these best describes the end of Jim Crow?

• Jim Crow ended with Reconstruction

• Jim Crow lingered as a mindset long after dedicated activists and organizations worked to end legal segregation.

• Jim Crow disappeared overnight as soon as segregation was deemed unconstitutional.

What was the Great Migration?

• a time when many black people left the segregated South and moved to the North

• a time when many black people left norther US cities for European cities

• a time when many white people left cities for suburbs

• a time when many Europeans immigrated to the US