The “Ethics of Living Jim Crow” is an accurate description of the effect of the Jim Crow laws upon Richards Wright’s life because in 1937 blacks were separate but equal. All the actions that Richard writes about in his essay are true because it states in the Jim Crow Laws that blacks where always to address white men with Mr. or Sir before a white man’s name, if not African American’s where to be severely punished as Richard explains here “… yes,Sir, Mr. Pease, i called you Pease, i would have been pleading guilty to having utter the worst insult that a Negro can utter to a southern white man”(163). Richard asked Morrie to learn more about his job. the audacity of the question outraged Morrie because in the those days blacks where not allowed
