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judge to decide the sentencing for the criminal. Many judges are awarding these criminals with a minimum harsh sentencing right away, making everything easier for the courts by not even having the case go to court. According to the book, The New Jim Crow, written by Michelle Alexander, “‘The value of a mandatory minimum sentence lies not in its imposition, but in its value as a bargaining chip to be given away in return for the resource-saving plea from the defendant to a more leniently…

took place in New York between the years of 1917 to 1935. This movement was marked by the “Great Migration”, where blacks that were settled in the South migrated to the North in search for bigger opportunities and civil rights. During these years Jim Crow laws and slavery were being practiced in the south, which were some of the main factors that caused the shift of blacks from the rural South to urban North. The Harlem Renaissance was characterized by its great explosion of “African American…

population was located in the South. Thousands of rural blacks flocked to industrialized areas of the North, with the hopes of attaining employment, better housing opportunities, and to escape the oppression of southern white prejudice and the Jim Crow laws. For many migrants, the settlement in this “Promised Land” did not yield the results they had…

conscious choice to have slavery as a part of their culture until 1865 when it was abolished. Inequality towards African Americans did not end there, though. After slavery, jim crow laws were widely used in the south to discriminate against African Americans. The idea of ¨separate but equal” was a piece of the jim crow philosophy that was established by the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 (Separate But Equal: The Laws of the Land). Although freed from the chains of slavery,…

This course was something I thought would be of a big interest for me personally. Being a communications major I have taken the same basic classes for two and a half years now. During my freshman year I took an introductory class about African American history and thought this would be something that would draw my attention. African Americans in the history of our country have been put down for far to long starting from the time of slavery up until basically now where we are still seeing race…

the US Constitution, or made virtual dead letters by hostile court decisions, culminating in 1896 in the plessy versus Ferguson, which gave legal sanction to the principle of separation but equal facilities of separated by face. (The World of Jim Crow). Americans do not know the history behind or before the Civil Rights Movement. ¨Civil rights are the freedoms and rights that a person may have as a member of community, state, or nation. Civil rights include freedom of speech, of the press,…

2018 A.A.R.P SD Grandparent of Year Essay My grandpa Charlie Long Crow should win the 2018 A.A.R.P SD Grandparent of the Year Award. Why he should win is because he’s very nice and he likes to travel a lot and also fix cars and tires. He likes to visits lots of people. He talks a lot to his sisters and brothers and he’s very unique. He likes to talk about a lot of stuff. My grandpa is very nice to his grandchildren. He like to take us hunting, fishing, and camping which is mostly for powwows.…

that the Fourteenth Amendment was not violated by the train segregation because accommodations were equal, creating the rule “separate but equal” (Ginsberg et al. 119). This injustice and segregation of the African-American community, known as the Jim Crow era in the south, continued on into the twentieth century. African Americans were not hired by employers, were paid lower wages, and could not attend the same schools as whites up until the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. This movement began in…

fine of up to two hundred dollars. The Civil Rights of Freedmen had good parts to it, but then they added the word “provided” making an exception to their rights. All of these were ways for southerners to keep freed people oppressed (Foner, 7-11). Jim Crow laws were another way to oppress freed people. They were state and local laws created to keep segregation and to prevent African Americans from voting. To do so, poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clauses were put into effect.…

White Americans, especially in the South. Blacks were not given equal opportunities in their education, job opportunities, or allowed to access white facilities. The Jim Crow Laws were established in 1874 and lasted until 1975. They were laws created intended “to separate the white and black races in the American South” (“Jim Crow Laws”). The purpose of these laws were to keep blacks “seperate but equal”, when in reality they weren't equal to White Americans at all. Dennis Sullivan discussed in…