Year 7 - Civil Rights Movement

Read the Jim Crow section of the website. This website will help you answer the questions about the Jim Crow Stereotype. This is important when we discuss the Jim Crow Laws.

This website will help you answer questions regarding the Jim Crow Stereotype. Read up to the Origins of the Jim Crow Stereotype. Summary: The Jim Crow Stereotype depicted African American people as unintelligent fools who were incompetent. The Stereotype developed from a comedy act which developed in the Southern states of America. The comedy act was so successful that the African American Jim Crow became a common way to insult and mock the "blacks" of 1960's.

This website helps you to answer the questions about the disease stereotypes that discriminated against African American people. Summary: The disease stereotype labelled against African Americans was just to justify and supposedly explain why "blacks" were to be seen as inferior to white people. African American people were considered to have other diseases than white people, which was a completely misleading and false stereotype.

This website helps you answer the questions about the "Mammy Stereotype". Summary: Mammy is the most well known racial stereotype of African American women. She was created during the era of American slavery as manufactured evidence that black slave women were content and even happy to be slaves. The Mammy image was a stereotype of African American women which contended that those women enjoyed being slaves and looking after other people's children.

This website helps you answer the questions about African Americans and Slavery. The website talks about Slavery and how before the Civil Rights movement, Abraham Lincoln tried to stop Slavery, which caused the Civil War. Read to the end of the Reconstruction Period paragraph. Extra information: The chain of events in the African American history follows: Civil War ---> Reconstruction period---> Civil Rights movement.

Legacies: stereotypes, racism and the civil rights movement Slavery gave rise to increasingly entrenched racist perspectives. While it is unlikely that racism caused slavery itself, undoubtedly the growth of racism grew from the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Racism is a belief that distinct human races exist and that one race is superior to another.