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in the 1900s to the 1930s. This migration of people mostly consisted of African Americans looking for a better living, where they’d have better jobs and would not be entrapped in a cycle of abuse from southern white men. This abuse consisted of Jim Crow Laws, lynching, sharecropping, and discrimination of their civil rights. When more African Americans came to the north, racial tensions deepened. Cities were becoming even more populated and jobs could be found easily in factories. This annoyed…

races are living together are able to be punished. They could be in jail up to twelve months or have to pay five hundred dollars. In schools, white and blacks had to be taught separately. Many states had their own way punishing people who broke the Jim Crow laws. Everything that people did, the whites and blacks did separately. Whites looked down on…

whites to go where they could see a sign pointing to where they are suppose to go, same on the other side. Although many people thought it was fair blacks were treated poorly. The government pushed a law called the Jim Crow Law allowing blacks to have the same rights as whites. Jim Crow law has been in news and in many stories. They use this to talk about the impacts of this law to people. Authors use writing to express people 's feeling for racism. This social issue is shown in “The Piano…

Almost immediately after the uprising passed, not just the city of Wilmington, but rather the entire state of North Carolina enacted laws that began the Jim Crow era and rescinded all of the progressive statutes passed under the Reconstruction government. The fact that only one major massacre was required to activate this change demonstrates just how high the tensions were boiling. The election of 1900 passed…

Civil Rights Movement Conflict People fought for their rights in the 1950s and there are still fighting in the U.S today. However, there is a difference between the two and that difference is that there was not as many rights that blacks had back then while today they have many more in this cultural conflict. In the past this conflict started up for many reasons. However they were soon solved and a person named Martin Luther King Jr. helped out and said these quotes. “Freedom is never…

After arriving in a new land, the men, women, and children who were strong enough to survive the trip were rudely greeted by the bonds of slavery. Their heirs and future descendants were impolitely welcomed by the Reconstruction period, the Jim Crow era, and the Civil Rights Movement.…

The Great Migration, or the migration of African Americans from 1915-1970 to the north, has many similarities and differences to the migration of the Jewish people out of German occupied land during World War II. Both migrations were a massive exodus from where these people were originally due to harsh circumstances, but the comparisons run much deeper than that. Both migrations were somewhat caused by the implementation of laws directed against a minority, which aimed to diminish rights.…

Depending on which type of people were defined as American during the Reconstruction era, it could be argued that Supreme Court undermined the expansion of American freedom, even going as far as taking away the rights and freedoms that should have been constitutionally offered to all citizens. While completely American, but not considered citizens, African-Americans and American Blacks were not given the same civil liberties as their fairer skin counterparts. In cases such as U.S. v. Cruikshank…

A law – a set of rules made by the government with the purpose to preserve freedom, rights and moral agency. Do all laws exhibit these traits? No, as Martin Luther King Jr wrote in The Letter from Birmingham Jail in 1963, “There are two types of laws: there are just laws, and there are unjust laws”. There are laws that help the community and create a safer environment for all, and there ones that restrict groups of people in regards to their basic human rights. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “A…

Since America was founded in 1776, one of the most monumental issues that has left it’s mark on society is civil rights. African- Americans in the South endured hardships due to the color of their skin. Jim Crow were laws were created to keep African-Americans and Caucasian people separated. These laws were administered at classrooms, bathrooms, theaters, diners, even water fountains were separated. In 1954 the U.S Supreme Court had come up with the plan of “Separate but Equal” which made racial…