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    Jim Crow Laws were established in 1896. These laws where meant to be “separate but equal” but it can also be called segregation. These laws led to the hard work of many people to try abolish them for they knew it was wrong. Although many agreed, those many also had a different view on how to eliminate these laws. Although both gentlemen have good points on how to deal with the few rights of African Americans, W.E.B DuBois has better solution than of that of Booker T. Washington. W.E.B DuBois…

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    Do you remember the in the 1930’s with the Jim Crow Laws or how the Africans got here to the U.S? The world we live in now has people being judged by the color of the skin. Racism has been here starting with slavery, then with segregation, and now just plain old racism. First, the racism in the world started with slavery. The Europeans wanted workers, so they went to Africa to get Africans. They captured them and brought them on their ships to work for them in the U.S. This happened a lot more…

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    The definition of the Jim Crow Laws is defined as laws of segregation and disenfranchisement that effected the south of the United States in the 1890’s (PBS, n.d.). With these laws in progress, it separated the black community from the white community by placing detail signs over water fountains, bathrooms, and schools letting the black community and the white community know that specific place was either “whites only” or “colored”. (PBS, n.d.). The two following narratives Willie Ann Lucas and…

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    The book To Kill a Mocking Bird written by Harper Lee was published in 1960 but set in the 1930s in Maycomb, Alabama¬. Jim Crow Law was controlling Alabama in the 1930s, which restricted black people’s rights. There were racial segregations happening due to this law. There were different doors for black people, they weren’t able to eat in the same room. When black people tried to ride the bus or train, they needed to use the back part. Moreover, due to the Great Depression, in this period, black…

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    The Jim Crow laws were laws of physical segregation in the south based strictly on race. Black people and white people could not attend the same schools, the same public places or public transportation. The segregation led to the concept of “separate but equal.” The “separate but equal” concept led to poorer conditions than what the white community had. The Jim Crow laws were strict and applied to any person that had a trace of black heritage…

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    is runned by what you know about who you're going against. It’s knowledge that controls the field, and what one know can be used as an advantage. During the Civil Rights movement, violence and words have been used. The Jim Crow Laws, are laws that people must follow. The laws controlled actions, limiting what can be done, but it also allowed…

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    passed this revision many Southern states did not want to comply, which enabled the Jim Crow laws in 1877. The Jim Crow laws legalized segregation between people of color and whites. Jim Crow laws restricted the rights of African Americans to use public facilities, schools, finding well-paid employment, voting, essentially excluding people of color from exercising their rights as citizens of the United States. Jim Crow laws were enforced until the mid-1950s, which caused much outrage and protest…

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    Jim Crow laws are mandated rules created after the Reconstruction in the south. These laws set dividers- separating the two prevalent races of the time, blacks and whites. The regulations in play enhanced the idea that whites are superior to black in all possible ways, directly leading to blacks possessing no authority, value, and rights. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, comprises several specific aspects of Jim Crow Laws focusing on limiting the rights of colored people living in Maycomb…

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    Jim Crow laws were a way to separate the white and the colored from being in the same place at the same time. This was a law basically because bob didn’t get along well and usually would end up bad. For example, the law of whites and colored races not being buried close to each other burial grounds (National Historic Site 10). To add to my last example, white and colored children had to be reached at different schools(National Historic Site 24). This rule was absurd because white children…

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    Jim Crow in Alabama and Arkansas. Name: Institution Affiliated: Jim Crow in Alabama and Arkansas. Jim Crow Laws was the name given to laws that were used in reinforcing racial segregation between 1866 and the 1950s in the South (Packard, 2002). Sothern legislators passed laws that required separation of whites from black in schools and public transportation. This segregation was further extended to cemeteries, parks, restaurants and theatres. All this was in an effort of trying to…

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