Counting Crows

for many people due to the segregation and discrimination that was taking place. These laws mainly affected the African-Americans who were wanting to travel around to other places since they were being segregated. In these laws they include the Jim Crow Laws, The Separate but Equal Laws, The Plessy v. Ferguson, Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, and the Grandfather Clauses. Racism was one of the biggest problems that we have in the United States, due to people discriminating others for any sort of…

struggled “for the integration of Negroes in the armed forces, such as the Air Corps, Navy, Army and Marine Corps of the Nation.” This point is elaborated in my NAACP article in that: “The dictator armies may be defeated by a Jim Crow Navy, a Jim Crow Army, a Jim Crow Corps; but the dictator idea will never be defeated by Jim Crowism” (Plainsdealer 7). By having a segregated army, the U.S. was succumbing to a similar form of fascism which would undermine the fight against the real…

In 1890, Louisiana carried out a law that enacted “separate but equal” railway cars for blacks and whites on railroads which was called the Separate Car Act. In 1892, the passenger Homer Plessy, who was one-eighths black and seven-eighths white, sat in a “whites only” car on a Louisiana train. Refusing to move to the black car, he was arrested and jailed for a charge of violating the Separate Car Act. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court. The question was “Is Louisiana’s law…

After the increase of political dominations, more of the southern states began to authorize segregation laws toward African Americans. The Jim Crow law, poll tax, and the Grandfather clause were all typical laws that limited the rights of the color race. Their disenfranchisement created the reshape of freedom among the society and the idea of “separate but equal” was established. On 1896, the…

Martin Luther King was a well-known civil rights leader. Despite being arrested on several occasions, he did not let a prison cell keep his influential words locked up. One of his most notable works includes “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” It was a response to the Alabama clergymen who accused him of being an outsider and had no credentials to be a part of the Birmingham community. King, however, countered all of their demeaning arguments and emphasized that he was peacefully fighting for…

By the end of the Civil War, the United States managed to undergo a drastic and imperative transformation in its history. When the war began, the country was mainly powered by agriculture. The end of the war began a new way of life in America- an industrial one. This period of time from the 1870s to the beginning of the twentieth century is known as “The Gilded Age”, which also included the “new industrial order.” The Gilded Age and the “new industrial order” dramatically increased the number of…

On November 16th four esteemed doctors of Shippensburg University held a panel titled “Being Black in America”. This panel was held by Dr. Raymond Janifer a professor of English, Dr. Stephanie Jirard a professor of Criminal Justice, Dr. Cheryl A. Slattery a professor of Teacher Education, and Dr. Jamonn Campbell a professor of Psychology. The panel’s presentation was on what it meant to be an African American in today’s America and discussed the problems and obstacles that African Americans…

African Americans’ rights and treatment was “separate but equal.” These events showed how the African American groups worked to close the gap between races while the white people placed roadblocks every chance they could. Throughout this time, Jim Crow laws were enforced in many states. These laws designated different accommodations for different races of people—white sections, and colored sections. Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that this treatment was fair, as long as there were the same…

Incarceration rates in American has grown dramatically over the years. According to the American Psychological Association (2014), the United States makes up about 5 percent of the world’s population but has more than 20 percent of the world’s prison population thus making it the world’s largest jailer (America Psychological Association, 2014). The Unites States has relied on imprisonment as a form of punishment and rehabilitation for those who commit criminal offenses. Currently, there are 2.3…

In the years following Reconstruction, the remnants of a bitterly broken south left hatred to take root among the attempts to fill social and political gaps between black and white Americans. As the North progressed economically, black codes and laws in the South stacked the odds against black Americans. In The Piano Lesson, August Wilson brings to focus the resulting hardships of African Americans and their responses to these hostilities through characters Boy Willie, his uncle Doaker and his…