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Jim Crow Laws in North Carolina
By Katelyn
Information from: http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/insidesouth.cgi?state=North%20Carolina
· Blacks and whites could not get married, along with blacks with Indian descent the third generation.
· Whites and blacks were to be taught in separate schools.
· Railroads could be used by both blacks and whites, but in separate cars. (Doesn’t apply to streetcars)
· People of black descent to the third generation were considered “colored.”
· No person with “Negro blood in their veins” could attend a school for the white race.
· In hospitals, blacks had to be accompanied by a black nurse to care for them.
· Miscegenation was not allowed. Miscegenation was considered a felony
· Seats on buses were segregated by race, along with mental hospitals and prisons.
· Black troops could not be with white troops. Colored troops were under control of white officers.
· At businesses, blacks had separate bathrooms.
· Children were not forced to go to school with children of opposite race.
· Cemeteries were segregated.
· Blacks and whites couldn’t live in the same neighborhood.
