A song for the Virginia fourth grade SOL's, to give students the essence of what the Jim Crow laws were.
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They made us slaves
They made us free
Gave us a taste of liberty
Then took it all away (with Jim Crow)
From the fields we were sent
To vote and be in government
Then they took it all away (with Jim Crow)
They wrote it down, they made it law
Freedom isn’t freedom after all
To Jim we were not equals in his eye
As time passed by they thought of more
Discriminate ways to lock the doors
And keep us down despite how hard we try.
Separate fountains from which to drink
Separate schools to learn and think
Building walls between us (and Jim Crow)
Separate buses, separate seats
Separate places to go and eat
Equality has no place (with Jim Crow)
Chorus
Wanna vote? Pay a tax
Take a test we cannot pass
My rights are out of reach (with Jim Crow)
Sent to jail and closed the case
If we married outside of our race
Guess love isn’t blind (to Jim Crow)
Chorus
No, this land is not my land
Where a white won’t shake my colored hand
Things aren’t always equal (with Jim Crow)
While the nation takes a long vacation
From the Emancipation Proclamation
We’ll someday put an end (to Jim Crow)
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