Jim Crow Laws SC


	\|How the Jim Crow Laws Effected People \| Jim Crow Laws in Alabama \| Jim Crow Laws in Georgia \| Laws in Louisiana \| Laws in South Carolina \| Laws in North Carolina \| Laws in West Vergina \| Laws in Mississippi \| Laws in Kentucky \| Jim Crow Laws for South Carolina: examples from 1865 to 1957 By Austin 1865: Prohibited marriage between a white person and a person of color. 1866: Upheld 1865 law prohibiting intermarriage 1868: All public schools and universities to be free and open to all persons regardless of race or color. 1869: Gave all classes of citizens without regard to race or color equal access to public, legal and political privileges. Included the right to intermarry. 1869: Unlawful for public carriers or any business to discriminate on account of race or color. Penalty: Fine of $1,000 and hard labor in the penitentiary for five years. Corporations that violated this act shall forfeit their business license. 1879: "Marriage between a white person and an Indian, Negro, mulatto, hybrid, or half-breed shall be null and void." Penalty: Misdemeanor, fined a minimum of $500, or imprisoned for not less than twelve months, or both. Ministers who performed such marriages faced misdemeanor charges, subject to the same penalty. 1895: Prohibited marriage between a white person with a Negro or hybrid, and or a person who had one-eighth or more Negro blood. 1895: No children of either race "shall ever be permitted to attend a school provided for children of the other race." 1896: Unlawful for pupils of one race to attend schools provided for persons of another race. 1898: All railroads to provide separate first-class coaches for the accommodation of white and colored passengers. Penalty: Railroad employees who violated the law were liable to a fine from $300 to $500. Section 6 of the law noted that it was legal for all persons paying second-class fare to ride in a second-class car. 1900: Amended the act of 1898, repealing section six. The new law stated that railroads were not required to have second-class coaches. Penalty: Employees violating the law faced misdemeanor charges punishable by a fine between $25 and $100. Passengers who refused to sit in their assigned car were guilty of a misdemeanor and could be fined from $25 to $100. 1903: Amended 1900 law stating that railroads were required to furnish separate apartments for white and colored passengers only on passenger trains, not on freight trains. 1905: Authorized streetcars to separate the races in their cars. Penalty: Conductors who failed to enforce the law could be fined up to $100, or imprisoned for up to 30 days for each offense. 1906: Firms providing meals to passengers at railroad stations were prohibited from serving meals to white and colored passengers in the same room, at the same counter, or at the same table. Penalty: Misdemeanor, could be fined from $25 to $100, or imprisoned up to 30 days. 1932: All circuses and tent show must provide separate entrances for white and black customers. 1932: Required racially segregated schools. 1932: Miscegenation declared a misdemeanor. Also forbid marriages between persons of the Caucasian and Asian races. 1935: Required school bus drivers to be of the same race as the children they transported. 1952: Repealed poll tax statute. 1952: Unlawful for cotton textile manufacturers to allow different races to work together in same room, use same exits, bathrooms, etc. Penalty $100 and/or imprisonment at hard labor up to 30 days. 1952: Marriage of white with Negro, mixed, Indian, or hybrid void. Penalty: Not less than $500 and/or not less than 12 months imprisonment. 1952: Crime to give colored person custody of a white child. 1952: Public carriers to be segregated. 1955: Regular school attendance statute repealed. 1956: State Commission of Forestry given authority to operate and supervise only racially separated parks and to admit to the facilities of the parks only persons who have the express permission of the state. 1957: No appropriations for schools from and to which students transfer because of court order. The state of South Carolina may have been on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, but there were Jim Crow Laws. As may states, the whites had tried to steal the black rights after the Civil War. This state has many similar laws like the other Jim Crow states. In many cases, most of the laws involved high fines, high amount of time in jail, and/or even death. In the North, these laws were just bad. The worst part of the whole thing is the work. The conditions were rough and they didn’t make much, unless the boss was black too. Jim Crow Laws in Alabama: 1865 to 1963 http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/insidesouth.cgi?state=Alabama Examples of Jim Crow laws: 1865: Stated that it was the duty of the general assembly to periodically enact laws prohibiting intermarriage between whites and blacks, or with persons of mixed blood, and to establish penalties. 1865: Stated that it was the duty of the general assembly to periodically enact laws prohibiting intermarriage between whites and blacks, or with persons of mixed blood, and to establish penalties. 1867: Set penalties for intermarriage and cohabitation between blacks and whites. Penalties: Confinement in the penitentiary at hard labor between two and seven years. Those who issued the license or performed such a ceremony could be fined from $100 to $1,000, or imprisoned for six months, or both. 1875: Separate schools to be provided for the children of citizens of African descent 1878: Repeated separate school requirement of 1875 Constitution. 1891: Railroads to provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, providing two or more passenger cars for each passenger train, or by dividing the passenger cars by partitions so as to create separate accommodations. Conductors were given authority to assign passengers to the proper car. Law did not apply to white or colored passengers entering the state upon railroads who purchased their tickets in another state where a similar law was not in force. Penalties: Persons who attempted to ride in the wrong railroad car would be fined $100. Railroad companies that failed to enforce the law would be fined up to $500; conductors could be fined as much as $100. 1901: Declared that the legislature could never pass any law authorizing or legalizing "any marriage between any white person and a Negro, or descendant of a Negro." 1901: Separate schools to be provided for white and colored children. No child of either race to be permitted to attend a school of the other race. 1907: Restated 1867 constitutional provision prohibiting intermarriage and cohabitation between whites and blacks. Penalties remained the same. A political code adopted in the same year defined the term "Negro" to include "mulatto," which was noted as "persons of mixed blood descended from a father or mother from Negro ancestors, to the fifth generation inclusive, though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person." Note: This code added two additional generations to the original 1867 definition of what constituted a "Negro" person. 1911: Unlawful for any sheriff or jailer "to confine in the same room or apartment of any jail or prison white and Negro prisoners." 1915: White female nurses were prohibited from caring for black male patients. 1927: All schools to be segregated by race. 1928: Miscegenation declared a felony. 1928: Classified all persons with any Negro blood as colored. 1928: Public accommodations [State Code] Forbid the use by members of either race of toilet facilities in hotels and restaurants which were furnished to accommodate persons of the other race. 1940: Prohibited intermarriage and cohabitation between whites and blacks or the descendant of any Negro. Penalty: Imprisonment in the penitentiary for two to seven years. Ministers and justices of the peace faced fines between $100 and $1,000 and could be imprisoned in the county jail for up to six months. 1940: Unlawful to chain together white and black convicts or allow them to sleep together. 1940: Code commanded that separate waiting rooms be provided for blacks and whites as well as equal but separate accommodations on railroad cars. Didn’t apply to passengers entering Alabama from another state that did not have similar laws. 1940: County Boards of Education to provide free separate schools for white and colored children. 1945: Required separate waiting rooms and ticket windows for the white and colored races as well as separate seating on buses. Penalty: Misdemeanor carrying a fine of $500. 1945: Established voting qualifications to included being able to read and write, understand and explain any article of the U.S. Constitution. Elector had to be employed for the greater part of the 12 months preceding registration. 1955: Called for segregation on public transportation. 1956: The city of Huntsville, Ala., passed a municipal ordinance that set aside one day a week when Negroes could use the municipal golf course. 1956: The Huntsville, Ala., City Council passed a resolution that made it unlawful for white and blacks to play cards, dice, dominoes, checkers, pool, billiards, softball, basketball, baseball, football, golf, or track together. Also applied to swimming pools and beaches. 1956: Birmingham, Ala., acted to "reaffirm, reenact and continue in full force and effect" ordinances which prescribed segregated seating on city buses to prevent "incidents, tensions and disorder." 1957: No child compelled to attend schools that are racially mixed. 1957: Political subdivisions may alienate recreational facilities if approved by referendum. 1963: Repeated portions of Birmingham's city code which had prohibited interracial recreation and had required separation of the races in restaurants and places of entertainment, and separate bathrooms for black and white employees. The Jim Crow laws in this state were bad and unfair for black people. The thing about it is it was a bad state to live in. The hatred of colored people is lightened up, but not enough to be hate free. There are many things still going on. The lynching is illegal now. Back then the laws were to the point of death. The murders weren’t important till the murder of Emmett Till. Now times have changed a bunch. The working conditions have changed a lot too. They work in a better environment, and they are paid more. Jim Crow Laws: Tennessee Here are some examples of the laws in Tennessee http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/insidesouth.cgi?state=Tennessee 1866: Separate schools required for white and black children 1869: No citizen of Tennessee could be prevented from going the University of Tennessee on account of his race or color, the whites will be separated from colored." 1870: Intermarriage prohibited between Whites and Negroes, or descendants of Negro families to the third generation. 1870: Penalty for intermarriage between whites and blacks was labeled a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary from one to five years. 1870: Schools for white and black children separate. 1873: "White and colored people shall not be taught in the same school, but in separate schools under the same general regulations as to management, usefulness and efficiency." 1875: Hotel keepers, carriers of passengers and keepers of places of amusement have the right to control access and exclude persons as "that of any private person over his private house." 1881: Railroad companies required to furnish separate cars for colored passengers who pay first-class rates. Cars to be kept in good repair, and subject to the same rules governing other first-class cars for preventing smoking and obscene language. Penalty: If companies fail to enforce the law required to pay a forfeit of $100, half to be paid to the person suing, the other half to be paid to the state's school fund. 1882: 1881 law amended to state that railroads required to supply first-class passenger cars to all persons paying first-class rates. Penalty: $300 fine payable to the public school fund. 1885: All well-behaved persons to be admitted to theaters, parks, shows, or other public amusements, but also declared that proprietors had the right to create separate accommodations for whites and Negroes. 1891: Railways to provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races. Penalty: Railroad companies that failed to comply with law guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to fines from $100 to $500. Conductors could be fined from $25 to $50. 1901: Unlawful for any school or college to permit white and colored persons to attend the same school. Penalty: $50 fine, or imprisonment from 30 days to six months, or both. 1905: All street cars required to designate a portion of each car for white passengers and also for colored passengers. Required signs to be posted. Special cars could be run for one race exclusively. Penalty: Streetcar companies could be fined $25 for each offense. Passengers who refused to take the proper seat could be fined $25. 1925: Separate elementary and high schools to be maintained for white and Negro children. 1932: Classified "Negro" as any person with any Negro blood. 1932: Miscegenation declared a felony. 1932: Required racially segregated high schools. 1953: Repealed poll tax statute. 1955: Public carriers to be segregated. 1955: Separate washrooms in mines required. 1955: Separate buildings for black and white patients in hospitals for the insane. 1955: Prohibited marriage or living together as man and wife between racially mixed persons. Penalty: One to five years imprisonment in county jail, or fine. The Jim Crow laws were bad for every state, but this one weren’t as harsh as the lower states in the United States, they weren’t fair. This time era wasn’t a fun time to be in the south. The laws are after the death of Emmett Till, but it is still Jim Crow laws. The working was bad in the south to, a bad environment and low pay. At least now it has changed for jobs. The Southeast is still bad with racism, but at least it isn’t what it was it was 55 years ago, and longer. If you notice, there is a lot of hate down there still. The hate back then was to the point of jail, beatings and death.
Reference http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/insidesouth.cgi?state=South%20Carolina

1865:
Prohibited marriage between a white person and a person of color.

1866:
Upheld 1865 law prohibiting intermarriage

1868:
All public schools and universities to be free and open to all persons regardless of race or color.

1869:
Gave all classes of citizens without regard to race or color equal access to public, legal and political privileges. Included the right to intermarry.

1869:
Unlawful for public carriers or any business to discriminate on account of race or color. Penalty: Fine of $1,000 and hard labor in the penitentiary for five years. Corporations that violated this act shall forfeit their business license.

1879:
"Marriage between a white person and an Indian, Negro, mulatto, hybrid, or half-breed shall be null and void." Penalty: Misdemeanor, fined a minimum of $500, or imprisoned for not less than twelve months, or both. Ministers who performed such marriages faced misdemeanor charges, subject to the same penalty.

1895:
Prohibited marriage between a white person with a Negro or hybrid, and or a person who had one-eighth or more Negro blood.

1895:
No children of either race "shall ever be permitted to attend a school provided for children of the other race."

1896:
Unlawful for pupils of one race to attend schools provided for persons of another race.

1898:
All railroads to provide separate first-class coaches for the accommodation of white and colored passengers. Penalty: Railroad employees who violated the law were liable to a fine from $300 to $500. Section 6 of the law noted that it was legal for all persons paying second-class fare to ride in a second-class car.

1900:
Amended the act of 1898, repealing section six. The new law stated that railroads were not required to have second-class coaches. Penalty: Employees violating the law faced misdemeanor charges punishable by a fine between $25 and $100. Passengers who refused to sit in their assigned car were guilty of a misdemeanor and could be fined from $25 to $100.

1903:
Amended 1900 law stating that railroads were required to furnish separate apartments for white and colored passengers only on passenger trains, not on freight trains.

1905:
Authorized streetcars to separate the races in their cars. Penalty: Conductors who failed to enforce the law could be fined up to $100, or imprisoned for up to 30 days for each offense.

1906:
Firms providing meals to passengers at railroad stations were prohibited from serving meals to white and colored passengers in the same room, at the same counter, or at the same table. Penalty: Misdemeanor, could be fined from $25 to $100, or imprisoned up to 30 days.

1932:
All circuses and tent show must provide separate entrances for white and black customers.

1932:
Required racially segregated schools.

1932:
Miscegenation declared a misdemeanor. Also forbid marriages between persons of the Caucasian and Asian races.

1935:
Required school bus drivers to be of the same race as the children they transported.

1952:
Repealed poll tax statute.

1952:
Unlawful for cotton textile manufacturers to allow different races to work together in same room, use same exits, bathrooms, etc. Penalty $100 and/or imprisonment at hard labor up to 30 days.

1952:
Marriage of white with Negro, mixed, Indian, or hybrid void. Penalty: Not less than $500 and/or not less than 12 months imprisonment.

1952:
Crime to give colored person custody of a white child.

1952:
Public carriers to be segregated.

1955:
Regular school attendance statute repealed.

1956:
State Commission of Forestry given authority to operate and supervise only racially separated parks and to admit to the facilities of the parks only persons who have the express permission of the state.

1957:
No appropriations for schools from and to which students transfer because of court order.

The state of South Carolina may have been on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, but there were Jim Crow Laws. As may states, the whites had tried to steal the black rights after the Civil War. This state has many similar laws like the other Jim Crow states. In many cases, most of the laws involved high fines, high amount of time in jail, and/or even death. In the North, these laws were just bad. The worst part of the whole thing is the work. The conditions were rough and they didn’t make much, unless the boss was black too.

Jim Crow Laws in Alabama: 1865 to 1963

http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/insidesouth.cgi?state=Alabama

Examples of Jim Crow laws:

1865:
Stated that it was the duty of the general assembly to periodically enact laws prohibiting intermarriage between whites and blacks, or with persons of mixed blood, and to establish penalties.

1867:
Set penalties for intermarriage and cohabitation between blacks and whites. Penalties: Confinement in the penitentiary at hard labor between two and seven years. Those who issued the license or performed such a ceremony could be fined from $100 to $1,000, or imprisoned for six months, or both.

1875:
Separate schools to be provided for the children of citizens of African descent

1878:
Repeated separate school requirement of 1875 Constitution.

1891:
Railroads to provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, providing two or more passenger cars for each passenger train, or by dividing the passenger cars by partitions so as to create separate accommodations. Conductors were given authority to assign passengers to the proper car. Law did not apply to white or colored passengers entering the state upon railroads who purchased their tickets in another state where a similar law was not in force. Penalties: Persons who attempted to ride in the wrong railroad car would be fined $100. Railroad companies that failed to enforce the law would be fined up to $500; conductors could be fined as much as $100.

1901:
Declared that the legislature could never pass any law authorizing or legalizing "any marriage between any white person and a Negro, or descendant of a Negro."

1901:
Separate schools to be provided for white and colored children. No child of either race to be permitted to attend a school of the other race.

1907:
Restated 1867 constitutional provision prohibiting intermarriage and cohabitation between whites and blacks. Penalties remained the same. A political code adopted in the same year defined the term "Negro" to include "mulatto," which was noted as "persons of mixed blood descended from a father or mother from Negro ancestors, to the fifth generation inclusive, though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person." Note: This code added two additional generations to the original 1867 definition of what constituted a "Negro" person.

1911:
Unlawful for any sheriff or jailer "to confine in the same room or apartment of any jail or prison white and Negro prisoners."

1915:
White female nurses were prohibited from caring for black male patients.

1927:
All schools to be segregated by race.

1928:
Miscegenation declared a felony.

1928:
Classified all persons with any Negro blood as colored.

1928: Public accommodations [State Code]
Forbid the use by members of either race of toilet facilities in hotels and restaurants which were furnished to accommodate persons of the other race.

1940:
Prohibited intermarriage and cohabitation between whites and blacks or the descendant of any Negro. Penalty: Imprisonment in the penitentiary for two to seven years. Ministers and justices of the peace faced fines between $100 and $1,000 and could be imprisoned in the county jail for up to six months.

1940:
Unlawful to chain together white and black convicts or allow them to sleep together.

1940:
Code commanded that separate waiting rooms be provided for blacks and whites as well as equal but separate accommodations on railroad cars. Didn’t apply to passengers entering Alabama from another state that did not have similar laws.

1940:
County Boards of Education to provide free separate schools for white and colored children.

1945:
Required separate waiting rooms and ticket windows for the white and colored races as well as separate seating on buses. Penalty: Misdemeanor carrying a fine of $500.

1945:
Established voting qualifications to included being able to read and write, understand and explain any article of the U.S. Constitution. Elector had to be employed for the greater part of the 12 months preceding registration.

1955:
Called for segregation on public transportation.

1956: The city of Huntsville, Ala., passed a municipal ordinance that set aside one day a week when Negroes could use the municipal golf course.

1956:
The Huntsville, Ala., City Council passed a resolution that made it unlawful for white and blacks to play cards, dice, dominoes, checkers, pool, billiards, softball, basketball, baseball, football, golf, or track together. Also applied to swimming pools and beaches.

1956:
Birmingham, Ala., acted to "reaffirm, reenact and continue in full force and effect" ordinances which prescribed segregated seating on city buses to prevent "incidents, tensions and disorder."

1957:
No child compelled to attend schools that are racially mixed.

1957:
Political subdivisions may alienate recreational facilities if approved by referendum.

1963:
Repeated portions of Birmingham's city code which had prohibited interracial recreation and had required separation of the races in restaurants and places of entertainment, and separate bathrooms for black and white employees.

The Jim Crow laws in this state were bad and unfair for black people. The thing about it is it was a bad state to live in. The hatred of colored people is lightened up, but not enough to be hate free. There are many things still going on. The lynching is illegal now. Back then the laws were to the point of death. The murders weren’t important till the murder of Emmett Till. Now times have changed a bunch. The working conditions have changed a lot too. They work in a better environment, and they are paid more.

Jim Crow Laws: Tennessee

Here are some examples of the laws in Tennessee

http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/insidesouth.cgi?state=Tennessee

1866:
Separate schools required for white and black children

1869:
No citizen of Tennessee could be prevented from going the University of Tennessee on account of his race or color, the whites will be separated from colored."

1870:
Intermarriage prohibited between Whites and Negroes, or descendants of Negro families to the third generation.

1870:
Penalty for intermarriage between whites and blacks was labeled a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary from one to five years.

1870:
Schools for white and black children separate.

1873:
"White and colored people shall not be taught in the same school, but in separate schools under the same general regulations as to management, usefulness and efficiency."

1875:
Hotel keepers, carriers of passengers and keepers of places of amusement have the right to control access and exclude persons as "that of any private person over his private house."

1881:
Railroad companies required to furnish separate cars for colored passengers who pay first-class rates. Cars to be kept in good repair, and subject to the same rules governing other first-class cars for preventing smoking and obscene language. Penalty: If companies fail to enforce the law required to pay a forfeit of $100, half to be paid to the person suing, the other half to be paid to the state's school fund.

1882:
1881 law amended to state that railroads required to supply first-class passenger cars to all persons paying first-class rates. Penalty: $300 fine payable to the public school fund.

1885:
All well-behaved persons to be admitted to theaters, parks, shows, or other public amusements, but also declared that proprietors had the right to create separate accommodations for whites and Negroes.

1891:
Railways to provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races. Penalty: Railroad companies that failed to comply with law guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to fines from $100 to $500. Conductors could be fined from $25 to $50.

1901:
Unlawful for any school or college to permit white and colored persons to attend the same school. Penalty: $50 fine, or imprisonment from 30 days to six months, or both.

1905:
All street cars required to designate a portion of each car for white passengers and also for colored passengers. Required signs to be posted. Special cars could be run for one race exclusively. Penalty: Streetcar companies could be fined $25 for each offense. Passengers who refused to take the proper seat could be fined $25.

1925:
Separate elementary and high schools to be maintained for white and Negro children.

1932:
Classified "Negro" as any person with any Negro blood.

1932:
Miscegenation declared a felony.

1932:
Required racially segregated high schools.

1953:
Repealed poll tax statute.

1955:
Public carriers to be segregated.

1955:
Separate washrooms in mines required.

1955:
Separate buildings for black and white patients in hospitals for the insane.

1955:
Prohibited marriage or living together as man and wife between racially mixed persons. Penalty: One to five years imprisonment in county jail, or fine.

The Jim Crow laws were bad for every state, but this one weren’t as harsh as the lower states in the United States, they weren’t fair. This time era wasn’t a fun time to be in the south. The laws are after the death of Emmett Till, but it is still Jim Crow laws. The working was bad in the south to, a bad environment and low pay. At least now it has changed for jobs. The Southeast is still bad with racism, but at least it isn’t what it was it was 55 years ago, and longer. If you notice, there is a lot of hate down there still. The hate back then was to the point of jail, beatings and death.

Jim Crow Laws for South Carolina: examples from 1865 to 1957 By Austin

Jim Crow Laws for South Carolina:
examples from 1865 to 1957
By Austin