Fighting Back Analysis

Cratique #2: Fighting back In this movie it talks about how Jim Crow Laws Moved through three cities, Wilmington, New Orleans and Atlanta. At first the cities where doing well and most blacks were striving. Then when whites became to feel threatened by blacks or felt like they were stepping out of their place Jim Crow Laws started to establish. In Wilmington there was a strong middle class filled with whites and blacks. This was one of the largest cities in the state and Blacks were prospering.Blacks took the skills they learned from slavery and turned it into businesses. They are well accomplished and they started to have an arrogance about themselves. This did not sit well with whites they started to feel like their power was being threatened. Blacks also had political power in Wilmington and with the business they had economical power as well. When you have both political and economical power you basically have the power of that city. Blacks having power did not sit well with the The Democratic Party and they were determined to end the black power in North Carolina. They got together and made campaigns about how blacks were monsters who prey on …show more content…
They were the most racially Liberal city in the South. They even had interracial marriages and public schooling. But in 1890 Jim Crow came to New Orleans. Public transportation became legally segregated. The Supreme Court allowed states to decide to deny blacks the right to vote. In New Orleans blacks votes went from 130,000 to 5,000. Booker T. Washington became public figure in New Orleans. He wanted to teach blacks how to follow the Jim Crow Laws and still strive as Back Businessmen. Then there was W. E. B. Du Bois a civil rights activist who agreed with Washington in some aspect but not all. He wanted to challenge Jim Crow. He believed that blacks should fight for every right that they deserve and not settle. He believed in being truly equal to