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The sixties is characterized as one key periods of times in which several minorities achieved a so long awaited equality in a society that by so many years was oppressive towards minority groups. It is sad to recognized that a great period of the history of the U.S. is characterized by a great barrier that the white society stablished to separate itself from many races. Although events such as the emancipation proclamation which abolished former slavery in the whole country, it did not help…

There was a series of laws and rules imposed by whites known as “Jim Crow laws” that made life as a black person extraordinarily difficult--in essence, they were legal regulations mixed with etiquette wherein “African Americans were relegated to the status of second class citizens.” (Pilgrim). Black people were not allowed…

Americans were at last ready to partake in government issues and vote. They were given more flexibility than any other time in recent memory in view of the changes, yet the South was soon ready to return to their past biases with the making of the Jim Crow…

supremacy took over and blacks resumed to be treated differently than whites. Blacks were lynched by groups like the KKK and it was allowed in spite of the 14th amendment. The rights of blacks were protected but there was still segregation. The Jim Crow laws ordered blacks to use separate facilities and other thing from whites. The Plessy vs. Ferguson case resulted in separate facilities for blacks and whites as long as they were equal. In this process blacks stayed patient and nonviolent,…

desperate, and unable to escape the poor living conditions they are in. An example of this was for African Americans during the Great Migration. The great migration was when mass amounts of African Americans moved north from the south. This was due to Jim Crow segregation that was prevalent in the south. Jim Cow were laws that were put in place after the Civil War legalizing segregation between blacks and whites. The laws stated that blacks and whites could have separate facilities but they…

Supreme Court reversed Plessy’s case. Under the new law, segregation in public schools was illegal, and by postponement, that ruling was applied to other public facilities. In the years following, subsequent decisions struck down similar kinds of Jim Crow legislation (Plessy v.…

Civil Rights Activists such Bobby Simmons, Jimmy lee Jackson, etc. was galvanizing the efforts, talent, and expertise of others including the help of students to aid in the fight for voting rights, integration, and racial equality and to defeat Jim Crow segregation. One such person was Ms. Amelia Boynton, a Caucasian…

“The White House” is a poem written by Claude McKay in 1919 to express the struggles of African Americans with the Jim Crow Laws. McKay was born in Jamaica and his work consisted of poetry, novels, and scientific texts. During this time in America, African Americans were experiencing harsh segregation laws; which caused McKay to portray the struggles of African Americans trying to fit in the society. Title of the poem “The White house” is referring to the whites and the house refers to the…

Atticus Finch, a distinctive character in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The setting of this book takes place during the 1930s in Maycomb County, Alabama; In this period of time, the Jim Crow Laws still existed, especially in the South. The Jim Crow Laws were regulations that enforced the racial segregation between the blacks and whites. Besides this, the country was going through the Great Depression. This was the worst economic downturn in America. About 15 million Americans were…

Ethnography Analysis: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness was written by civil rights litigator, legal scholar and author Michelle Alexander. The book discusses the history of race and mass incarceration in the United States specific to African American man. Alexander argues, “We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it” (pg. 2), there has been a rebirth of a caste system…