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= Beare US History Research Wiki Journal Prompts = = =

· My exciting topic is “the Jim Crow Laws During Reconstruction” I am pretty excited but a little nervous about this project as this is my first research paper at Hotchkiss. I need to make sure that am doing the right things and all that which basically means that I am going to be seeing Mr. Beare a lot. Anyways, right now, I am investigating where the term “Jim Crow” came from. I found a secondary source written by Dr. David Pilgrim, a professor of Sociology Ferris State University. · According to Dr. David “Jim Crow” came from a song written by Thomas Dartmouth Rice. He was a white performer and playwright in a popular minstrel who used African American language speech, song, and dances to become one of the most popular entertainer of his time. Rice’s “Jim Crow” song and dance routine intensely boosted up his reputation and made him very famous and caused many white imitators. Rice, and his imitators, by their stereotypical depiction of blacks, help to popularized the belief that Blacks were lazy, stupid, inherently less human, and unworthy of integration. By 1838, the term “Jim Crow” was being used as a collective racial description for blacks, not offensive as nigger, but as offensive as coon or darkie. · I also researched what the “Jim Crow” Laws means to the American people. From what I understand, the Jim Craw Laws was invented after the Civil War in a way to legalized segregation between blacks and whites. The Laws discriminated against blacks with concern to public schools and the use of facilities such as restaurants, theater, hotels, cinemas and public baths. Trains and busses were also segregated and in many states inter-racial marriage was forbidden
 * Journal Entry 1:** Topic and ideas -- What are you investigating? What are the questions that are guiding your investigation.
 * Topic and ideas **

Two questions that are guiding my investigation are: why the term “Jim Crow?” what was the Jim Crow Laws?


 * Journal Entry 2:** A comment on your process to date, a brief discussion of your sources, and a listing of sources you are currently working with (correct Turabian format). This should be a significant step forward from your initial bibliography.

I spent a decent amount of time looking into the impact that the Jim Crow law passed on. There are two main area i want to focus on. The segregation of transpotaion, public schools and the laws on inter-racial marriage. I have I have only been looking into inter-racial marriage. · Marriage Every state had a different Jim Crow intermarriage laws. In the late 1800’s, Georgia had this law “It shall be unlawful for a white person to marry anyone except a white person. Any marriage in violation of this section shall be void.” (Race, Racism, and the Law). The goal of this law was to keep the races separate. African American males were not allowed to look at Caucasian females and they were often falsely accused of rape. Whites felt as if they were protecting women by forbidding interracial marriage
 * Jim Crow Effects: **

I am curious to know how and why the jim crow laws came to and end. as a result i want to make that my theses. But in doing that, i will discuss three main example of the Jim Crow Laws; Transportation, public schools, and interracial marriage. After that, i will came about how it ended and why it ended.
 * Journal Entry 3:** What is your Thesis?