Harris NaemiEnglish 90 Section 1456

October 28th, 2007Jim Crow Webquest

The Beginning

An illusration showinga job done by African Americansduring the 1950s.

This picture shows my father and Itogether.

School

These are someof the classmatesthat I attendedschool with.

Our school wasquite small andnot greatly constructed.

Jim Crow lawswouldn't allow colored students to be in the same class as white students.

One Day During Summer…

This was a signtypically found just aboutanywhere that notified us colored peopleif we were allowed in thisarea or not.

One of the basketball hoopsthat me and my friend Kevin wouldplay at.

School Shopping

This is the central MontgomeryMall that everyone in the citywould go to, whether to shop orjust to hang out with friends.

The water fountains, justlike many other things in the city were segregated. One side being for the whites, the other for colored.

On The Way Home….

This is the line that we would haveTo wait in in order to get back home.

According to Jim Crow Laws: 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.

Good Grades

This is the movie Theater that my fatherTook us to celebrate my grades

This is the area we went to dine. Notice the White sign at the door.

According to Jim Crow Laws: 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

Grandmother’s Death

This is me in the backgroundat my grandmother’s funeral.My father, cousin and auntieare pictured in the front ofThe picture.

According to Jim Crow Laws: 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

This was the bookthat I found on JimCrow laws at my grandmothers funeral.It should a lot of lawsagainst us colored people and the punishments that we would receive frombreaking certain laws.

Questions

The Awakening

According to Jim Crow Laws: 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.Note how the young white kids aren’t

afraid of the hanged man.

Video!!

This is a picture of meon the cover of SportsIllustrated as a freshmenat Berkeley.

This is a picture of meAnd a few of my teammates celebrating at the Olympics.

UC Berkeley, the school that I attended and graduated from.

From left to right: Miah, my wife Johanne, Miah, and Trey. I’m pictured in the middle.

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