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FilM Loving

Jeff Nichols "Loving"
=Task= = = =Look at the discriminatory laws existing in the USA until well into the sixties. Make a powerpoint illustrating them. Look for pictures in google. 1 picture per law. Try to find pictures from that period __but only if possible__ = =You should make a slide for each law and find a suitable picture.= =Register in SLIDESHARE and upload you powerpoint.= =__ Upload it on the classblog __= =www.blogger.com= =user: curs4a2011@gmail.com= =password: barcelonacongres.= = = = Deadline: 16th December 2011 =

=__ **The Ku Klux Klan ** __=

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=Despite the progress blacks made racism still existed, and angry whites sometimes turned to violence to intimidate blacks. = = The most notorious of these initiatives was the **Ku Klux Klan**, a secret society of white supremacists formed in Tennessee in 1866 to terrorize blacks. = = = = Klansmen, who wore white hoods to hide their identities, harassed and beat blacks, and sometimes even conducted **lynchings**— mob killings of blacks, usually by hanging. = =The Klan often used these tactics to scare blacks away from the polls during elections and to punish those who did not obey their demands. In one extreme case, Klansmen murdered several hundred black voters in Louisiana in 1868. Congress, realizing the need to protect blacks, passed the **Ku Klux Klan Act** of 1871 to decrease the tide of violence **and intimidation.** =

= = =**Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks **= = = =**Nurses **: No person or corporation will require any white female nurse to nurse in rooms ,in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed. = = = =**Restaurants **: It is unlawful in a restaurant to serve food, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition = = = =**Toilet Facilities, Male **: Every employer of white or negro males shall provide for such white or negro males reasonably accessible and separate toilet facilities. = = = =__**Arizona **__= = **Intermarriage **: The marriage of a person of Caucasian blood with a Negro, Mongolian, Malay, or Hindu will be null and void. Arizona = =__ **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Florida ** __= = **<span style="color: #003399; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Intermarriage **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">: All marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a white person and a person of negro descent to the fourth generation inclusive, are forever prohibited. = =__<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Florida __= =__**<span style="color: #003399; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Cohabitation **__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">__:__ Any negro man and white woman, or any white man and negro woman, who are not married to each other, who live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room will each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twelve (12) months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred ($500.00) dollars. Florida = = **<span style="color: #003399; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Education **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">: The schools for white children and the schools for negro children will be conducted separately. = =__<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Florida __= =**<span style="color: #003399; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Barbers **<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">: No colored barber shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls. Georgia = =**<span style="color: #003399; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Burial **<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">: The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any colored persons upon ground used for the burial of white persons. Georgia = =**<span style="color: #003399; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Parks **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">: It shall be unlawful for colored people to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the benefit, use and enjoyment o f white persons...and unlawful for any white person to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the use and benefit of colored persons. Georgia = = **<span style="color: #003399; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Wine and Beer **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">: All persons licensed to conduct the business of selling beer or wine...shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room at any time. Georgia = = = =**<span style="color: #003399; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Promotion of Equality **<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">: Any person...who will be guilty of printing, publishing or circulating printed, written material presenting l information, arguments or suggestions in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, will be guilty and fined or imprisoned = =**<span style="color: #003399; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Textbooks **<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">: Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them. North Carolina = = = =**<span style="color: #003399; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mining **<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">: The baths and lockers for the negroes shall be separate from the white race, but may be in the same building. Oklahoma = =**<span style="color: #003399; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Amateur Baseball **<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">: It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play baseball on any lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a playground devoted to the Negro race =