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Examples of Jim Crow Laws –
Buses
All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor
transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and
separate ticket windows for the white and colored races.
Railroads
The conductor of each passenger train is authorized and required to
assign each passenger to the car or the division of the car, when it is
divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger
belongs.
Restaurants
It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the
serving of food in the city, 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 extending from the floor
upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate
entrance from the street is provided for each compartment.
Pool and Billiard
Rooms
It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in
company with each other at any game of pool or billiards.
Toilet Facilities,
Male
Every employer of white or negro males shall provide for such white or
negro males reasonably accessible and separate toilet facilities.
Intermarriage
The marriage of a person of Caucasian blood with a Negro, Mongolian,
Malay, or Hindu shall be null and void.
Intermarriage
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 hereby forever prohibited.
Cohabitation
Any negro man and white woman, or any white man and negro woman, who are
not married to each other, who shall habitually live in and occupy in
the nighttime the same room shall each be punished by imprisonment not
exceeding twelve (12) months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred
($500.00) dollars.
Education
The schools for white children and the schools for negro children shall
be conducted separately.
Juvenile
Delinquents
There shall be separate buildings, not nearer than one fourth mile to
each other, one for white boys and one for negro boys. White boys and
negro boys shall not, in any manner, be associated together or worked
together.
Mental Hospitals
The Board of Control shall see that proper and distinct apartments are
arranged for said patients, so that in no case shall Negroes and white
persons be together.
Intermarriage
It shall be unlawful for a white person to marry anyone except a white
person. Any marriage in violation of this section shall be void.
Barbers
No colored barber shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls.
Burial
The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any colored
persons upon ground set apart or used for the burial of white persons.
Restaurants
All persons licensed to conduct a restaurant, shall serve either white
people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to
the two races within the same room or serve the two races anywhere under
the same license.
Amateur Baseball
It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play
baseball on any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a
playground devoted to the Negro race, and it shall be unlawful for any
amateur colored baseball team to play baseball in any vacant lot or
baseball diamond within two blocks of any playground devoted to the
white race.
Parks
It shall be unlawful for colored people to frequent any park owned or
maintained by the city for the benefit, use and enjoyment of 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.
Wine and Beer
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.
Reform Schools
The children of white and colored races committed to the houses of
reform shall be kept entirely separate from each other.
Circus Tickets
All circuses, shows, and tent exhibitions, to which the attendance
of...more than one race is invited or expected to attend shall provide
for the convenience of its patrons not less than two ticket offices with
individual ticket sellers, and not less than two entrances to the said
performance, with individual ticket takers and receivers, and in the
case of outside or tent performances, the said ticket offices shall not
be less than twenty-five (25) feet apart.
Housing
Any person...who shall rent any part of any such building to a negro
person or a negro family when such building is already in whole or in
part in occupancy by a white person or white family, or vice versa when
the building is in occupancy by a negro person or negro family, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a
fine of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) nor more than one hundred
($100.00) dollars or be imprisoned not less than 10, or more than 60
days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
The Blind
The board of trustees shall...maintain a separate building...on separate
ground for the admission, care, instruction, and support of all blind
persons of the colored or black race.
Intermarriage
All marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a white
person and a person of negro descent, to the third generation,
inclusive, or between a white person and a member of the Malay race; or
between the negro and a member of the Malay race; or between a person of
Negro descent, to the third generation, inclusive, and a member of the
Malay race, are forever prohibited, and shall be void.
Railroads
All railroad companies and corporations, and all persons running or
operating cars or coaches by steam on any railroad line or track in the
State of Maryland, for the transportation of passengers, are hereby
required to provide separate cars or coaches for the travel and
transportation of the white and colored passengers.
Education
Separate schools shall be maintained for the children of the white and
colored races.
Promotion of
Equality
Any person...who shall be guilty of printing, publishing or circulating
printed, typewritten or written matter urging or presenting for public
acceptance or general information, arguments or suggestions in favor of
social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to fine or not exceeding five
hundred (500.00) dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months or
both.
Intermarriage
The marriage of a white person with a negro or mulatto or person who
shall have one-eighth or more of negro blood, shall be unlawful and
void.
Hospital Entrances
There shall be maintained by the governing authorities of every hospital
maintained by the state for treatment of white and colored patients
separate entrances for white and colored patients and visitors, and such
entrances shall be used by the race only for which they are prepared.
Prisons
The warden shall see that the white convicts shall have separate
apartments for both eating and sleeping from the negro convicts.
Education
Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children
of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to
attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school.
Intermarriage
All marriages between...white persons and negroes or white persons and
Mongolians...are prohibited and declared absolutely void...No person
having one-eighth part or more of negro blood shall be permitted to
marry any white person, nor shall any white person be permitted to marry
any negro or person having one-eighth part or more of negro blood.
Education
Separate rooms [shall] be provided for the teaching of pupils of African
descent, and [when] said rooms are so provided, such pupils may not be
admitted to the school rooms occupied and used by pupils of Caucasian or
other descent.
Textbooks
Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored
schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them.
Libraries
The state librarian is directed to fit up and maintain a separate place
for the use of the colored people who may come to the library for the
purpose of reading books or periodicals.
Militia
The white and colored militia shall be separately enrolled, and shall
never be compelled to serve in the same organization. No organization of
colored troops shall be permitted where white troops are available, and
while white permitted to be organized, colored troops shall be under the
command of white officers.
Transportation
The...Utilities Commission...is empowered and directed to require the
establishment of separate waiting rooms at all stations for the white
and colored races.
Teaching
Any instructor who shall teach in any school, college or institution
where members of the white and colored race are received and enrolled as
pupils for instruction shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars
($10.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense.
Fishing, Boating,
and Bathing
The [Conservation] Commission shall have the right to make segregation
of the white and colored races as to the exercise of rights of fishing,
boating and bathing.
Mining
The baths and lockers for the negroes shall be separate from the white
race, but may be in the same building.
Telephone Booths
The Corporation Commission is hereby vested with power and authority to
require telephone companies...to maintain separate booths for white and
colored patrons when there is a demand for such separate booths. That
the Corporation Commission shall determine the necessity for said
separate booths only upon complaint of the people in the town and
vicinity to be served after due hearing as now provided by law in other
complaints filed with the Corporation Commission.
Lunch Counters
No persons, firms, or corporations, who or which furnish meals to
passengers at station restaurants or station eating houses, in times
limited by common carriers of said passengers, shall furnish said meals
to white and colored passengers in the same room, or at the same table,
or at the same counter.
Child Custody
It shall be unlawful for any parent, relative, or other white person in
this State, having the control or custody of any white child, by right
of guardianship, natural or acquired, or otherwise, to dispose of, give
or surrender such white child permanently into the custody, control,
maintenance, or support, of a negro.
Libraries
Any white person of such county may use the county free library under
the rules and regulations prescribed by the commissioners court and may
be entitled to all the privileges thereof. Said court shall make proper
provision for the negroes of said county to be served through a separate
branch or branches of the county free library, which shall be
administered by [a] custodian of the negro race under the supervision of
the county librarian.
Education
[The County Board of Education] shall provide schools of two
kinds; those for white children and those for colored children.
Theaters
Every person...operating...any public hall, theatre, opera house, motion
picture show or any place of public entertainment or public assemblage
which is attended by both white and colored persons, shall separate the
white race and the colored race and shall set apart and
designate...certain seats therein to be occupied by white persons and a
portion thereof , or certain seats therein, to be occupied by colored
persons.
Railroads
The conductors or managers on all such railroads shall have power, and
are hereby required, to assign to each white or colored passenger his or
her respective car, coach or compartment. If the passenger fails to
disclose his race, the conductor and managers, acting in good faith,
shall be the sole judges of his race.
Intermarriage
All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mulattos, Mongolians, or
Malaya hereafter contracted in the State of
Source: http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/jcrow02.htm