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are oppressed, and the opportunities for equality that are presented. Two of the most similar restrictions on how African Americans were allowed to act on a daily basis where those of the Reconstruction Period’s Black Codes and the Early 1900s Jim Crow Laws. The Black Codes were passed as a loophole mainly in the South to remove the freedoms promised by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment. They forced African Americans into the old labor positions that had held them in slavery. Their movement…

Voting is one of the most basic rights of American citizenship that was first given to African-American men in 1870 and again to all women in 1920. The Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments though did not restrict incentives to prevent African-American men and women from voting. Currently in America at least thirteen percent of African-American men have lost their right to vote; they are among the 6 million Americans who cannot vote due to their criminal records. To prevent Americans, especially…

The Civil War had ended and Abraham Lincoln, the President of The United States at the time had just issued the Emancipation Proclamation. This proclamation was delivered on January 1, 1863 and it declared the freedom of slaves in the United States. The release of this document was just the start of the post-civil war era and led to many factors that contributed to racism in America not only politically but economically and socially as well. The beginning of this post-civil war era marked…

1960s because it reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson case, deciding that facilities could be “separate but equal.” Thus, integration began in the schooling system with the Little Rock Nine, while many other activists seized the chance to attack the Jim Crow laws. Also, World War II black veterans rallied under the slogan “Double V” day, which praised both the victory in Europe and progress with equality. President Roosevelt allowed the desegregation of defense industries with an executive order,…

Segregation started as early as after the Civil War. The victory of the Union slowly improved the treatment of African American citizens. However, there are also laws approved later on to restrict their freedom unequally from the whites like the Jim Crow Laws and the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Many activists and protesters have fought to repeal them for better treatment and racial equality. Some were successful though some were not. Also, the end of World War II was the start of a new…

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…

segregation was a mindset as well as a way of life. For this reason many were opposed to desegregation. They strictly followed Jim Crow laws that enforced as well as encouraged racial segregation. Jim Crow laws date back to 1877. These laws promoted the idea of “separate but equal”, which was a major argument for Whites that were against desegregation (White Only: Jim Crow in America -…

hammering tent stakes during a storm at night. The figures sing “We work all day, we work all night. We never learned to read or write. We slave until we’re almost dead.” “Keep on working, Stop that shirking. Pull that rope, you hairy ape.” Also, the crows speak the stereotypical old time African American…

I had the enchanted honor of knowing, respecting, and admiring one of the greatest role models that life has to offer. That role model is my grandfather, Ben Jordan Sr., born before World War I in the year of 1912, which ironically was his house number (1912 Bell Street). He was a lean man that touted a medium build with strong arms. His smooth, dark brown skin was a complement to his stature. He wore a crown of gray, salt and peppered-hair but most kept it bald. He was partially blind from…

Even though blacks were granted the right to vote by the 15th Amendment, the Force Acts impeded black people from fulfilling this right. The Jim Crow laws kept blacks and whites ‘separate but equal’ up until the 1960s. W.E.B DuBois noted that “the slave went free; stood for a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.” Reconstruction ultimately failed to recognize blacks as citizens…