Examples of Jim Crow Laws
In Alabama, black and white people were not allowed to play games together.
In Georgia, blacks were forbidden to work as barbers to white women.
In Maryland, white women couldn’t carry a baby whose dad was black. In Maryland, white women couldn’t have a child with black men.
Vocabulary
Be pregnant: être enceinte
Carry a baby : porter un enfant
Whose : dont
About Emma Jones
Her name is Emma Jones.
She was born on June the third nineteen ninety in Manchester.
She is twenty.
She lives at 33 Charlotte Street in London
She is an only child.
She has one dog and one cat.
She likes reading books and going to the cinema.
She dislikes playing on a computer.
She hates playing football.
Vocabulary:
Only child: enfant unique
Go to: aller (quelque part)
Live at : habiter à + adresse précise
Examples of Jim Crow Laws
In Nebraska, Blacks and Whites were forbidden to marry.
In Alabama, Black and White people were forbidden to play together.
In Maryland, white women were forbidden to have a child with black men.
In Maryland, white women had to be pregnant from white men.
In Missouri white and black children couldn’t study in the same school.
In Georgia black barbers were not allowed to have white female clients.
In Arkansas, white prisoners couldn’t be handcuffed to black prisoners.
Vocabulary:
Be pregnant from : être enceinte de
Handcuffed to : menotté à
Female clients: des clientEs
The same schools : les mêmes écolesMarry: épouser / se marier avec
Together : ensemble
