Jim Crow Laws and the State of

Maine
SS310: Exploring The 1960s
Kathy O’Neal
 Jail House during the 1960s, South Paris, Maine
Today it is The Oxford County Courthouse.
Juvenile Delinquents There shall be separate buildings, not nearer than
one fourth mile to each other, one for white boys and one for negro boys.
White boys and negro boys shall not, in any manner, be associated
together or worked together. Florida
Freeland Holmes Library, Oxford, Maine

Libraries The state librarian is directed to fit up and maintain a separate

place for the use of the colored people who may come to the library for
the purpose of reading books or periodicals. North Carolina
Oxford High School During 1960s
Today it is The Oxford Town Office, Oxford, Maine
Education The schools for white children and the schools for negro
children shall be conducted separately. Florida
 The Meeting House Center, Oxford Maine
Voting Local and state laws required black citizens to pass literacy test or pay
poll taxes before they could register to vote Mississippi.
 Poland Spring Inn, Poland, Maine
The Presidential House, Job Corp Program in 1966
Housing Any person...who shall rent any part of any such building to a negro person or a negro family when such
building is already in whole or in part in occupancy by a white person or white family, or vice versa when the
building is in occupancy by a negro person or negro family, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) nor more than one hundred ($100.00)
dollars or be imprisoned not less than 10, or more than 60 days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the
discretion of the court. Louisiana
 St Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad & Train Station, South Paris, Maine
Railroads The conductor of each passenger train is authorized and required to assign each passenger to the car
or the division of the car, when it is divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger
belongs. Alabama
 The Gray Hound Bus Station, Lewiston, Maine
Waiting Room, Gray Hound Bus Station, Lewiston, Maine

Buses All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate
waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races. Alabama
 Shanner’s Restaurant, Norway, Maine
Restaurants It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which
white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually
separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a
separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment. Alabama
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Stephens Memorial Hospital, Norway, Maine
Waiting Room at Stephens Memorial Hospital
Hospital Entrances There shall be maintained by the governing authorities of every hospital maintained by the
state for treatment of white and colored patients separate entrances for white and colored patients and
visitors, and such entrances shall be used by the race only for which they are prepared. Mississippi
 Flagship Cinema, Oxford, Maine
Theater Room at Flagship Cinema
Theaters Every person...operating...any public hall, theatre, opera house, motion picture show or any place of
public entertainment or public assemblage which is attended by both white and colored persons, shall separate
the white race and the colored race and shall set apart and designate...certain seats therein to be occupied by
white persons and a portion thereof , or certain seats therein, to be occupied by colored persons. Virginia
 Summary & Conclusion

•The Jim Crow laws were used to segregate blacks and white within communities, state and government levels.

•The Jim Crow laws were not legal after, “The Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964” to discriminate blacks from public

places, schools, public facilities, and employment opportunities (www.ourdocuments.gov/doc=97civilrightsact1964).

• President Lyndon Johnson on August 6, 1965 signed, “The Voting Rights Act” allowing blacks to vote without

discrimination.

• The new laws passed by President Lyndon Johnson protected black people from discrimination in the community,

state and government leaders.

• The State of Maine was protected from Jim Crow laws and forms of discrimination after these two laws were passed

in government.

• Maine has increased in the number of people of other races, cultures and beliefs making the state more diverse then

seen in the 1960s.

•These public places are used by all people in the community without laws or forms of discrimination today.
 References

100 Milestone Documents. (n.d.). Civil Rights Act of 1964. Retrieved from National History Day, The National Archives and Records,

Administration and USA Freedom Corps website: http://www.ourdocuments.gov

Poland Spring History. (n.d.). Poland Spring History. Retrieved from Poland Spring Preservation Society website:

http://www.polandspring.org/‌index.html

Randall, V. R. (1997). Examples Of Jim Crow Laws. In Examples Of Jim Crow Laws. Retrieved from Professor of Law, The

university of Dayton website: http://academic.udayton.edu/‌rac02zrights/‌jcrow02.htm