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= JIM CROW LAWS =

The Jim Crow Law was a racial cast system and local law in southern borders made in 1876 and ended in 1965. They madated public facilities with seperate but equal status. Although they claimed equal blacks had a lower advantage of education as well as social disadvantages. African Americans were second class citizens. Christian churches believed that whites were choosen and blacks were made to be servants. Examples of the Jim Crow Law
 * A black man could not offer to shake a white mans hand because it implied being socially equal. This also meant that a black man could not offer he's hand to a woman for that would be considered rape.
 * Blacks and Whites were not allowed to eat together, if so a partition was placed between them and the whites were served first.
 * Blacks could not show affection in public which involved kissing for this offended the white folks.
 * white men and women did not use courtesy titles such as Mr. or Mrs.. They were reffered to by their first names.