How Did The Civil Rights Movement Change During The Jim Crow Era

Another job that Wright had was portering in a clothing store. One day while he was polishing brass in the front of the store his boss and his boss’s son pulled up and pulled a black woman out of their car and dragged her into the store. There was a police officer out front but he did nothing to stop these men. They dragged her through the store and all the way to the back where they beat her. Wright notes hearing the screams of the woman from the back. The two men let the woman go after her beating and she stumbled on outside where the police officer then picked her up and accused her of being drunk. Wright walked towards the back where the beating had been done and the two men were chuckling and the boss told wright “’Boy, that’s what we do to niggers when they don’t want to pay their bills’” (Wright 561). Wright was shocked and later that day talked about it to his friends. They were not shocked to the extent that Wright thought they would be. Their reactions show how typical this thing was back then. Blacks were getting beaten by whites for any reason the whites could think of. …show more content…
White men still beat blacks over any possible reason they could grasp. Their etiquette rules were to make the whites seem as their masters still. A lot has changed since the Jim Crowe era. Blacks and whites have more equality. The dream is to have equality between both races but even today some whites think of them as superior to the blacks so things like the Ku Klux Klan still exist and other white supremacist organizations. Also today there are still killing of Blacks that are unwarranted like the Charleston Church Shooting done by Dylann Roof, who shot and killed black members of a church just because of their color. Progress has been made but Blacks and Whites are not truly