Question

1. Define the term Jim Crow. What does it mean to live in a Jim Crow nation? What did the phrase "separate but equal" mean to many people during Jim Crow segregation and did those words ring true? 2. 3. Who was Branch Rickey? What was his goal for baseball? 4. Why did Rickey choose Jackie Robinson as the player to integrate the Brooklyn Dodgers? Describe how Jackie Robinson won the affection and respect of some baseball fans and his fellow ballplayers. 5. 6. How do you think Jackie Robinson played a role in breaking racial barriers in the United States?

Answer 1

1. Jim Crow laws were laws that enforced racial segregation in southern states. To live in a Jim crow nation is to live in a nation were people are treated differently by there ethnicity. The phrase "separate but equal" means that the people were all together in the same town and city but the were treated differently.