Jack Johnson

1) What races were divided by the so-called color line?

To whose advantage?

White and black people. The white people had more rights and were able to do more things then black people.

2) What were some of the laws that demarcated

segregation in the Jim Crow-era South?

Whites and Blacks had to use separate bathrooms, drinking fountains, etc. Black people also had to sit in the back of the buses and the white people would sit in the front of the bus.

3) In both the North and South, what were some of the social

conventions that demarcated the color line?

4) How did they separate blacks from whites and place blacks

in the inferior and subservient position?

5) What did it mean to cross the color line? What kind

of behavior was disapproved of by whites because it crossed

the color line?

6) What were some of the penalties, both formal and

informal, for crossing the color line?

7) What were some of Johnson’s methods for surmounting the

color line?