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of Louisiana passed the Withdraw car act (Act 111,) this act required that the train railway cars were to design separate alterations for African Americans and whites. This act created two cars one set for “colored,” and the other designed for whites only, if a white were to sit in a colored only cart they would be escorted from the cart and vice versa. In 1891, a group of Creoles’ (a mix of European and Black…

elephant in the room in any history class, at least for me, no one talks about the wrong things Americans have done to others in this world. School tells us about the segregation, but they do not mention the real stories or things white people bombarded colored people…

Words” by applying colored words to his selection. Colored Words are just words that have more meaning behind them both good and bad. For example, the story states, “ My aunt told me that when you were saved you saw a light, and something happened to you inside.” (Hughes, page 83). In this case, the light is a positive color word. He goes on to say how the light symbolizes meeting Jesus, and how if not seeing the light meant you were the “lamb left in the cold”. Another colored word he uses is…

People’s arguments today aren’t as different as they were back then. Women need to not do what men do. Women need to say home with the children and be housewives. Colored women should not be allowed to have a right to vote. The prejudice women face today are not much different from 1911, as in the idea that they are inferior to men. Women should not do the jobs of men, nor do what they do, women need to stay where they are best suited, in the house. Women are expected to not be…

As a lover of handcrafted jewelry, you already know the difference between mass produced and manufactured costume jewelry and individually handcrafted jewelry made by artisans. A further distinction exists between fabricated handcrafted jewelry and handcrafted beaded jewelry. Fabricated handcrafted jewelry is made by silversmiths or goldsmiths who almost always have had formal training and have received a degree from an art school or who have apprenticed with a Master. On the other hand,…

but slavery was later added to things people fought this bloody war. It has been a problem people have been arguing about since the Revolutionary War. The world, at many points in history, has been torn over this idea of slavery. Is is fair? Are colored people equals. For most, the answer was straightforward, depending on what their family’s way of life is. The Civil War was a war that covered up something much bigger, something…

She helped to establish the Colored Women 's League in 1892, and served as its comparing secretary. In that limit, she was one of a little number of dark ladies to go to the World 's Congress of Representative Women, held in Chicago in 1893. There, she talked amid a session called "The Intellectual Progress of Colored Women of the United States Since Emancipation." At the main Pan-African Conference, held in London in 1900…

The civil Rights Act of 1964 is consisted of three different civil Rights acts, the first one is the one that study abuses, the second one is the one that says that the fourteenth amendment cannot be ignored, especially when is related to voting. The third one is about equal pay to women. In the civil Rights of 1964 is when everything started changing for African Americans and also strengthens the first and second Acts. The provisions that came with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were great. All…

becomes their hero”. This phenomenon has become especially popular in historical drama films. In WSFs, the protagonist eventually assimilates in the colored people’s culture and proves to be just as knowledgeable and cultured as the colored people. The antagonist of WSF features a white person who is presented as a bigot, oppressor, and racist to the colored people; totally opposite of the white protagonist. The white hero assumes the position of a leader and fights the antagonist, thus becoming…

The Help: Prompt 3 Aibileen and Minny were colored women that were maids for white families. They lived in Jackson, Mississippi; across the bridge were their neighborhoods which were separated from the white neighborhoods. Every day they would go to work at their family’s house that they were hired to. Their jobs consisted of cleaning the whole house, cooking, and take care of the kids if the family had any. Since Aibileen and Minny were colored, they had to use a different rest room than the…