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    Jim Crow Laws have affected the lives of many African Americans through segregation from the 1800’s to the 1960’s. Jim Crow consists of various laws that separate people based on the color of their skin. The punishments for not following Jim Crow Laws would be unfair and torturous. Racism became apparent, in which, drove many people the courage to fight for freedom and their rights. Jim Crow laws eventually was eliminated, though, racism still continued to linger. Moreover, an individual’s…

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    have found just inhumane and wrong. A prime example of this would be what we refer to as Jim Crow Laws. These laws were a set of very strict anti-black laws that affected many African Americans between the 1800s to the 1960s. Jim Crow laws were very discriminatory towards African Americans in the 1800s-1960s and had a huge impact on education, voting, and what our society…

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    accepted discrimination and thought of it as a way of life, but not Atticus Finch. Jim Crow Laws attempted to keep African American people separate from white people as well as keep things fair, but that does not stop the jury from discriminating against Tom Robinson, along with maintaining their social hierarchy. The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place in the 1930s, a time when people encouraged Jim Crow Laws. Although some people may have thought that Tom did not commit the…

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    Segregation (Jim Crow Laws ) was the practice of colored and whites to be separated from ones skin color. This occurred in the 1950’s and different examples of segregation included waiting rooms, schools, and churches. Jim Crow Laws led to segregation that divided African Americans and whites, which led to protesters making a change, but many killed and locked in prison. Racial segregation and Jim Crow laws enforced African americans and whites to seperate. But African Americans hated this law…

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    Why Do Jim Crow Laws Exist

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    Tenzin Namdul HIU 310 Professor Andrew Robertson Jim Crow, what is it? Or who is it? Jim Crow may sound like a person’s name but it is the racial law that segregated among the blacks and whites and it arose after Reconstruction that ended in 1877 and continued until the mid 1960s. Jim Crow laws were primarily seen in southern and border states. The African Americans were always looked down upon as second class citizens. The whites thought that they were superior to blacks in all ways and even…

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    The Jim Crow Laws were very similar to the Black Codes in their respective natures and goals, both systems desired to halt the encroachment of civil and voting rights for newly-freed blacks living in the South. This belief in the superiority of whites was nurtured by a deeply embedded idea of Social Darwinism that had existed in the South for ages (Ferris State University, Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia). Whites believed that they were…

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    through a daily daze. The Jim Crow laws make life very hard for African Americans, especially in Maycomb, Alabama. The Jim Crow laws restricted them and whites treated them poorly. This affected everyone, informed them, and shows how people defined what happened. The Depression affected everyone, not only a few people. It started in America, but it spread through the whole world. The Jim Crow laws are defined as laws that enforce racial segregation. The Depression and Jim Crow laws together were…

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    Jim Crow laws had a great influence throughout the world because it was based on how much harm than good it did during its time. During the years of 1876 and 1965 Jim Crow laws favored whites more than blacks. This was only because black people had so many restrictions on what they could do in the country as a whole. Segregation of public schools, public places, public transportation, restrooms, restaurants, and water fountains for whites and blacks was what the Jim Crow laws were based on.…

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    In my prompt I will be typing up, it will be sharing about the Jim Crow Laws. So what is the Jim Crow laws? Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Jim Crow laws affected many African-Americans in many ways, one way was financial problems. Jim Crow Laws wanted to specifically separate the white and colored people. There were many ways and things the southern states did to many sure there was a difference and separation between white…

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    In the 20th century whites saw African Americans as a threat. Sharing railroads, public facilities, and having to work with blacks was an incompatible combination. Therefore, the south enforced a law called The Jim Crow Law, which legalized racial segregation. Blacks were restricted from using the same public and private facilities as whites. Both races were segregated into separate schools, transportation, bathrooms, drinking fountains, beaches and many more places. Later on, the Plessy vs.…

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