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= Research Log = toc The recorder for your group should fill out the following log as your group works to complete this assignment. Your research log will begin once you enter the first site. Make sure you keep a detailed log; otherwise your mission will not be complete. Although the Secretary for the group is responsible for filling this in, all group members are responsible for seeing to it that this log is as accurate as possible. This is a group grade, not an individual grade.


 * 1) Log in the title of each site you visit.
 * 2) Take note of any significant facts you find at each site.
 * 3) When questions are asked about a site, make sure they are all answered.
 * 4) __Supply examples to back up your answers.__
 * 5) Note any personal reponses your group has to the site.
 * 6) __Back up any personal responses your group has with evidence from the site.__

__Group Members__
Record who is doing each job for your group (use first names only).

Speaker: Erica Cha
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Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
Any facts that you find important: The decision was later overturned after the Brown vs. Board of #|Education case.

Who was Plessy? He was a man who was 7/8 white and 1/8 black, and he bought a first class ticket to Louisiana. He sat in vacant seat in the white only section of the car and he was arrested.

What was his complaint? He said the segregation law violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, and it also violated the 13th amendment, which banned slavery.

How did the Supreme Court rule? They said while the 14th amendment was created for equality, it only extended to politics and civil rights, not social rights.

Was it unanimous? No, it was not an unanimous decision.

How did that ruling set up the conditions for Jim Crow laws to be enacted and enforced? It pointed out that blacks and whites equally facilities and equal punishments for violating the laws.

Personal reactions of group members: That these events were unfair because of the segregation and everyone should be equal.

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The Origin of Jim Crow
Timeline: 1883- The Supreme Court declare the Civil Rights act of 1875 to be unconstitutional. By 1914- Every southern state had passed laws that created two seperate societies. The states were completely segregrated. Black people were denied access to some places.

Any facts that you find important: In the 1960's the Civil Rights Movement began, which finally ended the Jim Crow Laws.

Personal reactions of group members: We are glad that the Jim Crow Laws were finally ended and that these laws were unfair and unjust.

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Examples of Jim Crow Laws
Any facts that you find important: Nursing- Hannah thought that it was interesting that white nurses were not allowed in hospital where black #|men were. Education- Erica thought that it was interesting that the #|schools for whites and blacks were seperated. Restaurants- Emily thought it was interesting that white people and colored people could not be served in the same restraurant.

Personal reactions of group members: It is hard to believe that white people and colored people were so seperated in almost everything that they did, even in places to eat and small things, they were always seperated.

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Name: Mary McLeod Bethune
 * Jim Crow Profiles**

Date of birth: 1875

Place of origin: South Carolina

Major cause this person fought for: For womens suffrage, especially for African American women.

Major accomplishments: She opened the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls in Daytona Beach, FL and she fought for womens suffrage.

Any additional facts that you find important: Mary was really close friends with the first lady, Elenor Roosevelt.

Personal reactions of group members to this person: She was a very inspirational woman and she fought a lot to help women gain rights.

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Jim Crow Narratives
Name: Edwilda Isaac

Date of birth: 1938

Place of origin: Farmville, Virginia

Major cause this person fought for: Equal rights for African Americans.

Major accomplishments: She went to college with people who were not African American, and she stood up for what she believed and for her rights.

Any additional facts that you find important: When she went to college, some of the students there had never seen African American people.

Personal reactions of group members to this person: I can not believe that there were only six African American students in her college and that some of the students there had never seen an African American person before.

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Rosewood, Florida Massacre
When did this event occur? It occured the first week in January 1923

What was the incident that started the riot? There were unsupported accusations that a white woman had been beaten and possibly raped by a black drifter.

What happened to those responsible for starting the riot (if anything)? At least 6 blacks and 2 whites were killed, and the town of Rosewood was abandoned and destroyed.

Any additional facts that you find important: Florida was the first state to compensate survivors and their desdenants for damage, due to racial violents.

Personal reactions of group members to this person: We think it was unfair for the people not to be protected and it was not right that they hunted down people for defending themselves even though those people were not involved at all.

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**Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination**
1.a. Discrimination againist colored people b. Rex theatre, colored people only theatere, movie posters, 2 colored people outside the theatre

2.a. "The Rex theatre for Negro people." b. This photograph was taken by Marion Post Wolcott. It was taken in November 1939, in Leland, Mississippi in a delta area. This is a picture of the Rex Theatre that was a theatre for only colored people and there are two colored people standing outside of it. It was taken to show the discrimination againist the Negro people in this time period. c. I would think that this photo would be taken to show how ridiculous these rule were and they wanted to prove that they actually exsisted at some time.(?)

Personal reactions of group members to this person: It is good that they take photographs to see how unfair this time period was for colored people.

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