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Is It A Boycott?Colored People Do Not Take Kindly to “Jim Crow” LawIt was noticed Saturday and Sunday especially that few colored people were patronizing the street carsof the city and several conductors on the line were asked yesterday what it meant. The information elicitedby these inquiries was rather startling. With one accord the street car men said that since the new “JimCrow” car law was put into effect the first of the month, requiring the blacks to take the rear seats and thewhites the front, the patronage of the colored people had fallen off from 50 to 75 per cent.Quite contrary to expectations, the negroes do not take to the new law at all and seem to haveorganized to resist the provision. There does not see to be so much objection to sitting to themselves as thereseems to be to the intimitation that they are not wanted. The street car people cherished the hope that thearrangement would be more satisfactory to both races, but it seems to be not so and the colored peopleappear to be withdrawing their patronage.Several conductors with whom a reporter talked yesterday said that whereas on Saturdays and Sundays thecolored patronage is usually equal to or more than that of the whites, there are now comparatively few negroesriding on the cars at all and the reports of cash fares collected are showing it very materialy. One conductor said thereceipts had been cut one-half and still another said that was not far from right.The street car people say, however, that temporary boycorr is always the result of such action in separatingof the races; that it was true in Richmond and Norfolk, but that eventually the colored people took a more sensibleview of the situation, and the separation of the races finally worked out with satisfaction to all concerned. Thecolored travel on the suburban line is not sufficiently large to show any change under the new regulations.Discussion Questions‣ What are black people doing? Protest?‣ What does this white newspaper make of it in the second paragraph?americainclass.org 36
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Page 1 and 2: The Emergence of Jim CrowAn Online
Page 3 and 4: The Emergence of Jim CrowLIBRARY OF
Page 5 and 6: From the Forum‣ When did Jim Crow
Page 7 and 8: Essential UnderstandingTo understan
Page 9 and 10: OverviewWhere were African American
Page 11 and 12: OverviewJim Crow is a political, ec
Page 13 and 14: North Carolina Black Code,An Act to
Page 15 and 16: Mississippi Black CodeVagrancy LawS
Page 17 and 18: Memphis Free SpeechFounded in 1888
Page 19 and 20: Address at Tremont Temple in the Bo
Page 21 and 22: Colorphobia in the Memphis Schools,
Page 23 and 24: 1883: Supreme Court Overturns 1875
Page 25 and 26: Memphis Appeal-Avalanche, December
Page 27 and 28: The “Jim Crow” Car,Richmond Pla
Page 29 and 30: Plessy v. Ferguson, 1897Plessy v. F
Page 31 and 32: Jim Crow Spreads‣ Labor/Economic
Page 33 and 34: North Carolina’s white supremacy
Page 35: African American ResistanceDid Afri
Page 39 and 40: “Chicago Whites Urge Race Segrega
Page 41: Final slideThank You.This seminar i

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