Jim+Crow

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 * Jim Crow Web Sites **

1. Where did the term, "Jim Crow," originate?
 * Research Questions: **

2. After the year 1900, what did the term, "Jim Crow," become identified with?

3. What Supreme Court case upheld segregation or "separate but equal"?

4. Who was Booker T. Washington? What was his stance on the segregation debates?

5. What was the name of the new literary movement, based in Harlem, New York, which featured "New Negro" poetry and literature that emphasized self-respect and defiance under the Jim Crow laws?

6. How did some southern black people try to resist and escape the Jim Crow laws?

7. Give at least three examples of the most startling and/or outrageous of the Jim Crow Laws.

8. Find three more interesting and/or unusual facts to report about this topic.