Jim Crow law: Media

United States [1877-1954]

Videos

What were Jim Crow laws?
Overview of the history of Jim Crow laws, which discriminated against African Americans...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
segregation
In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was illegal.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Images

Jim Crow segregation
A sign at a bus station in Rome, Georgia, in 1943, indicating a separate waiting...
Esther Bubley/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (file no. LC-USW3-037939-E)
Jim Crow Jubilee
Jim Crow Jubilee (1847), sheet music cover illustrated with caricatures...
© Everett Historical/Shutterstock.com
segregated water cooler
An African American man drinking at a water cooler for “colored” people at a streetcar...
Russell Lee, FSA, OWI/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-fsa-8a26761)
Homer Plessy arrest marker
Memorial marker at the location of Homer Plessy's arrest on June 7, 1892, in New...
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Plessy v. Ferguson judgment
Plessy v. Ferguson judgment, issued by the U.S. Supreme Court on...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment (1865) to the Constitution of the United States formally...
NARA
segregation
African Americans sit in a segregated waiting room at a train station in Jacksonville,...
Woodward—State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory (https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/32442)
Jim Crow Jubilee
Jim Crow Jubilee (1847), sheet music cover illustrated with caricatures...
© Everett Historical/Shutterstock.com
segregated water cooler
An African American man drinks at a segregated water cooler at a streetcar terminal...
Russell Lee, FSA, OWI/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-fsa-8a26761)
The Arthurs pose for a picture in the Windy City
The Arthurs, an African American family moving to the urban North from the rural...
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library (1168439)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells-Barnett led an anti-lynching crusade in the United...
Courtesy of the Chicago History Museum
Civil Rights Act of 1964
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum; photograph, Cecil Stoughton
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson judgment, issued by the U.S. Supreme Court...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.