Counting Crows

During this time, Jim Crow laws segregated the South. The civil rights movement is happening and woman are not ashamed of being housewives. Mostly every woman during this period did not go to college to get a degree, and just stayed home to cook and clean for the children. When…

National Museum of American History). Whites who lived during this time period were treated much better than any blacks ever were. Blacks were denied employment, entrance to schools, and could not sit in front of whites on public transportation “(Jim Crow Laws Denied Blacks Dignity, Vote)”. Almost every white family living in the southern region of America during the 1960’s had a black servant working for their family.…

this dream has been viewed in multiple ways, which vary from civil rights, security, and dignity. Arc of Justice speaks majorly on the topic of civil rights, which was a troublesome issue within the 1950s-1960s. The reader is introduced to the Jim Crow era, which enabled state and local law to enforce racial segregation in the Southern United States. The American dream within this scenario was sought by African Americans,…

African-Americans, this was only the tip of the iceberg of racial profiling against them. The “Jim Crow” laws were enacted in 1874 to segregate blacks from whites in the southern states. Jim Crow was a slang term of the time meaning “Black man”. These laws were created to serve as separate but equal treatment and worked around the Fourteenth Amendment to still degrade black people of the time period. When Jim Crow laws ended in the 1960’s it was a major victory for African Americans and other…

Following the end of slavery came the initiation of black codes. Alexander says that southern lawmakers passed such codes because they believed that African Americans were lazy. Several whites grew increasingly fearful of blacks retaliating. Their fear resulted in the birth of the mass incarceration of African Americans. Michelle Alexander states that “prisoners became younger and blacker, and the length of their sentences soared.” Slightly following the reconstruction era, the new caste…

The media today is cluttered with negative images of African American males. I believe that something needed to be done about it. The media has such a huge impact on today’s society. Things that you see and hear in the media are affecting good people in a very bad and harmful way. I believe that the media doesn’t see the harmful stigmas that it is placing on a whole group of people and the consequences that it has for them. This is very disheartening because it is keeping racial stereotypes and…

A law – a set of rules made by the government with the purpose to preserve freedom, rights and moral agency. Do all laws exhibit these traits? No, as Martin Luther King Jr wrote in The Letter from Birmingham Jail in 1963, “There are two types of laws: there are just laws, and there are unjust laws”. There are laws that help the community and create a safer environment for all, and there ones that restrict groups of people in regards to their basic human rights. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “A…

Niema Poindexter Professor Guevara Pols 197 9 December 2014 Natives and African Americans The race relations with races within the United States are damage and needs to be repair. The damage was created the day they set foot on Jamestown. The whiteness was created by the greed for power, money, and domination; whiteness has belittled groups that we see as minorities. The minorities have very little power compare to the majority. Given that, the majority group was created from the whiteness…

Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War would prove to be a challenging endeavor for the United States having to literally re-create an entire portion of the nation. This couldn’t be any closer to the truth in the case of New Orleans, where political reform and overhaul of its past principles, was a change that would come slowly and with a lot of time. One incident during the Reconstruction period that helps underline how hard these changes would be to achieve was the kidnapping of…

The Civil Rights Museum as a whole was a very interesting/learning experience. Since this was my first time visiting the museum, I really did not know what to expect. I knew that it was where Dr. King was assassinated, however I was unaware of all the other exhibits leading up to and even after the Civil Rights movement. The staff there were very welcoming and knowledgeable about the events that took place throughout the museum. Also, the exhibits were amazing, I really enjoyed seeing the…