Counting Crows

The movie the help is about a group of maids and their relationship with a white female journalist. Rather than a movie about the dark racial past, the movie shatters some common stereotypes. The movie shows that in a time when Jim Crow laws were still standing that Caucasian Americans and African Americans can come together for a common cause. The movie starts off with Aibileen talking to Skeeter telling her about where she was born and what she does with the family she works for. In the movie…

The African American civil rights movement dates back to the 19th century, during the time the 13th and 14th Amendments were passed. This radical social movement set out to end racial segregation, and discrimination against African Americans, while also securing legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enforced in the Constitution and federal law. The movement involved major campaigns of civil resistance, and most notably during the time of 1955-1968. Acts of…

Mass hysteria is a condition on a group of people caused by paranoia, anxiety, and fear. The Lynching Era in the United States between the 1880s-1930s caused major paranoia for newly freed African Americans. Lynching was a form of killing done by a mob of people typically through hanging. The Ku Klux Klan, also known as the KKK, were a group of people with hatred towards the African American race. The KKK terrorized African Americans even after they gained legal equal rights in America out of…

The 1920’s was a period of growth in urban america. A decade where wealth grew for the wealthy, but so did poverty among the lower working class. It was a decade of changes and clashes and there were many contradictions in values and ways. The 1920’s experienced a great deal of inequality among social classes. It represents a clash of values because it illustrates how the 1920’s was supposed to be a time of growth but in actuality was a time of poverty for many, a clash of values between urban…

read about what the Jim Crow Laws were and think about the effect they have had on society. From being in GEC323, reading about the Jim Crow Laws and read the book, The New Jim Crow Law is a book by Michelle Alexander, I have a whole new insight of how “crazy” and cruel this world, and the people in it, can be. The New Jim Crow Law is a book by Michelle Alexander in which is talks about the “new” Jim Crow Laws that are supposed to be a good idea of the nature of the Jim Crow from 1890 to 1965.…

LIMITED OPPORTUNITIES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS African Americans have come a very long way. We shouldn’t fail to acknowledge the progression of the race that has also made a gargantuan impact on the world; ranging from the right to vote to military status and involvement to even the presidency of the United States. Everyone knows the long history African Americans have endured and are still enduring. Despite the fact that slavery is a painful sadness in our history that is long behind us, its…

In the book, A Lesson before Dying, Gaines portrays the physiological effect of discrimination using the African Americans community. Throughout the book, there are many examples of segregation such as the living quarters of the blacks were much worse than that of the whites. Not only is their housing bad, but also the schooling for the blacks were much worse than that of the whites. There were also verbal abuse of the blacks. For example, Jefferson was called a hog and id made Jefferson feel as…

John Edward Bruce and Jacob Riss readings both had to do with how life was in the 1800’s and also shed more light on the things that were going on during that time. As for John Bruce, he explained the deaths of African Americans; Jacob Riss document explained how life was for people as for poverty and living standards. After further reading and more research, I concluded that many of the things still exist in today’s society. Jacob Riss article explained the lives of people who stayed in…

The Civil War was one of the greatest catastrophes that happened in America. For years the debate of abolishing slavery led the Northern abolitionists and Southern proslavery plantation owners to collide head on with each other. After the Civil War the nation suffered greatly in social and economic departments. America was moving downward as a nation. Many of the nation’s leaders tried to rebuild the nation as a whole which began the reconstruction period. Reconstruction was hard to accomplish…

also known as the Jim Crow Laws. In the 1890s, over two thousand Blacks were lynched in the South. These Jim Crow Laws were meant to degrade and dehumanize the African-American population and serve as a daily reminder that they were inferior to the Whites. In the Book “Sources of African American Past,” Garvin Fields, a Black female during this time period, said “The Jim Crow laws made friends into enemies over night,” (97). Pauli Murray also touched on the subject of the Jim Crow laws and how…