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    black people were freed and became citizens, but they did not have the same rights as white people. “The Jim Crow Laws were statutes enacted by Southern states, beginning in the 1880s that legalized segregation between African-Americans and whites” (American Historama). “The Jim Crow Laws were not just a law that separated whites and blacks, but it was also “a way of life” (David Pilgrim). These laws made life for African-Americans extremely difficult; the next paragraph will describe how…

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    Sierra Amundson Jim Crow Summary Response Notebook The Jim Crow Laws were local and state segregation laws that ruled harshly in the South and remained enact until later in 1965. Throughout a documentary based off of the Jim Crow laws there was shocking information and information common but was gone into greater detail in this hour long video. This video gives a great viewpoint from both sides of the war on segregation with the interviews that had constructed. First, presented will be a…

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    Those laws became known as the Jim Crow Laws. Both sets of laws were set in place by the two separate countries. The two laws targeted a specific race or religion, and created an extremely hostile environment within the borders of their respective countries. I will be conducting some research on the Nazi Nuremberg Laws and the American Jim Crow Laws and will compare and contrast both sets of laws to each other. Adolf Hitler was anxious to take control…

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    and early 20th Century, African Americans were just coming out of one struggle which was slavery and immediately facing another which presented itself in the form of Jim Crow. Many of the Negro Leaders during this time were trying to come up with useful solutions that would be able to effectively combat Jim Crow and these biased laws. Throughout this time, there was for the most part, two different sides as to how to go about getting equal rights for the Negro community. One side proposed…

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    Effects of the Jim Crow laws The origin of the Jim Crow laws came from a play when whites would paint their faces black and make very racist remarks about the blacks behaviour and culture. Eventually this led to the laws getting passed by the government and the segregation began. These laws led to many conflicts throughout the American history. Many laws were created as a way to make the black people inferior to the whites. Jim Crow laws led political, economical and social oppression. Once the…

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    Jim Crow Laws Summary

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    Americans lived with segregation legalized. This system of legalized segregation was called Jim Crow. Together with its strictly applied church laws of racial custom, these rules oversaw every little move that was made for each person of color. Of course if you have laws you must have reproductions for when someone breaks the law. The reason to have such strict laws was to keep order. According to the creator of these laws, the African Americans that were just emancipated needed some sort of way…

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    Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the South. The laws affected almost every aspect of daily life, mandating segregation of schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and restaurants. "Whites Only" and "Colored" signs were constant reminders of the enforced racial order. “From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members…

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    Laws are placed to keep us, the people, safe. We even put people out there to regulate those laws, and to offer punishment to those who don't follow them. When people resist laws it puts the lawmakers in a bad place. People who are boycotting the laws because they don't want to support what goes against their values. You can't please everyone and keep everyone safe. Opposition to anything is almost always met with a wall of stubbornness from the other side. Take, for example, abortion. There are…

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    In 1865, after the emancipation of slaves and abolishment of slavery in America, there were laws known as the black codes and they were designed to prevent newly freed blacks from having the full rights of citizens and to restore as much of the labor and racial controls of slavery as possible. The first of these laws were passed in South Carolina and Mississippi and were quickly picked up by other Southern states sharing the same goal. the black codes were distributed through the southern…

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    The laws of the “Jim Crow" was the common domestic name of American laws in the Southern States, prescribing the segregation of white and black people in transport, education, marriage, means of leisure, etc. These laws were common in the south of the United States from 1883 to 1954, in spite of the emancipation of black slaves in the year 1865. All of the south had the inscriptions of "whites only" and "only for the colored" served as a vivid reminder of the lower status of the past. The…

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