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form tailored to the needs of the time” (Alexander). Hence, after the civil war, mass numbers of African Americans were arrested for trivial crimes like loitering. “It was our nation’s first prison boom,” Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow,” explained. Though slavery was “officially outlawed,” loopholes such as convict leasing were born. States realized they could rent out their convicts to ex-plantation owners…

(Pilgrim). The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, utilized many historical events in order to provide life to the narration. There are accounts relating to the Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and racial dilemmas of the Great Depression Era. To start, one connection between the novel and American history is the Jim Crow laws. To illustrate, these were a set of rules that limited the respect blacks received in society. White citizens thought the laws were needed because they did not want…

In “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” written by Michelle Alexander, she talks about the issue of mass incarceration throughout the United States. She points out the legal discrimination felons are subject to, hence a second class citizen. Alexander sees the problem of the majority of the prison population are African American males. She states that the War On Drugs helped spike this mass incarceration, and had the intent to discriminate against African American…

Do you remember the in the 1930’s with the Jim Crow Laws or how the Africans got here to the U.S? The world we live in now has people being judged by the color of the skin. Racism has been here starting with slavery, then with segregation, and now just plain old racism. First, the racism in the world started with slavery. The Europeans wanted workers, so they went to Africa to get Africans. They captured them and brought them on their ships to work for them in the U.S. This happened a lot more…

Basically, the Jim Crow Laws supported segregation and previously restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans.The Jim Crow Laws first started in the 1880’s. Which legalized the segregation between blacks and whites. Jim Crow was a name of a system back before where racism was not an issue. Jim Crow Laws pretty much gave the people the freedom to dehumanize other races such as Latinos and African American. The Jim Crow Laws first started in 1890 and ended…

Yes, all of them happened to appear in “The New Jim Crow;” however, some of these topics seem to appear less in “The New Jim Crow” as of now. However, I definitely believe that I will be able to find a lot more information later about these topics in the NJC when I start reading further into the novel. War on drugs is more related to me as…

Reading ¨The Ethics of living Jim Crow¨ it feels me with a incredible feeling of anger. I have read and learned about several historic times during the time of segregation and this gives me a very strong feelings of anger and disbelief. The things that were happening in this story, the sections of inequality that were normal for this time period in this section of the US, absolutely astound me and drive me crazy. I am someone who avidly believes in equal rights and am driven crazy by…

Jim Crow Laws were established in 1896. These laws where meant to be “separate but equal” but it can also be called segregation. These laws led to the hard work of many people to try abolish them for they knew it was wrong. Although many agreed, those many also had a different view on how to eliminate these laws. Although both gentlemen have good points on how to deal with the few rights of African Americans, W.E.B DuBois has better solution than of that of Booker T. Washington. W.E.B DuBois…

Diction: The “Jim Crow Club” phrase is used to show that certain clubs are known for having separate but equal ideals. The word “barring” and “grievous” show the bad mistake these less famous clubs made when they chose to exclude people of their own race and only allowing white people to enter. Imagery: The use of the words “large, dark, masculine lady, whose feet pounded the floor while her fingers pounded the keyboard.” This appeals to your sense of sight and sound. The simile “ like amusing…

The definition of the Jim Crow Laws is defined as laws of segregation and disenfranchisement that effected the south of the United States in the 1890’s (PBS, n.d.). With these laws in progress, it separated the black community from the white community by placing detail signs over water fountains, bathrooms, and schools letting the black community and the white community know that specific place was either “whites only” or “colored”. (PBS, n.d.). The two following narratives Willie Ann Lucas and…