Jim Walton

Jim Crow Laws were designed to isolate African Americans and place them in an inferior position compared to white people. The Jim Crow Laws and customs stated that it was constitutional to give blacks separate but equal treatment. The problem was the equal part was seldom identical to the white’s privileges and advantages. The Jim Crow Laws stated that African Americans were to sit in the back of the bus, they had to ride in colored only train cars and they could not eat in the same restaurants…

The events of Reconstruction significantly improved the well being of freedman in American society by offering them equal rights. Slaves were discriminated against in ways that couldn’t be imagined. This was because of one thing: their skin color. Why should being a different race or ethnicity result to how one was treated? They weren’t any different from white people, but they begged to differ. White people grew up being brainwashed that African Americans were dangerous people, and should be…

The Reconstruction Era lasted from 1865 to 1877, and was focused on getting African Americans equality. After the Civil war was over, and all of the slaves were free, The South was severely in debt and could no longer make a profit due to most of the work being done by slaves and the war destroying fields, as well as the need for cotton lessening, and they blamed the African Americans on it and treated them worse than before. Some of the stuff that happened during this time improved conditions…

The African-American Dream The African American communities began to gather into Indian Territory, creating towns after the Civil War when the former slaves of the Five Civilized Tribes settled together (Black Communities After The Civil War). They settled closely because they needed each other for security purposes on both economic and safety levels. These “All-Black towns” affected Oklahoma greatly when the Land Run of 1889 created more so-called “free land” (Larry). Founders of these towns…

Klan or KKK and legacy of southern bitterness. To begin, the southern states created the black codes which were a set of rules against the blacks.One of the rules says they cannot meet in groups during any time of the day or night (Black Code and Jim Crow Law Examples). The rules were much like slavery, because the same rule was enforced during the time of slavery.…

War, Racism, and hard work, this was the way of life for most Americans in the 1900’s. Most African Americans were frowned upon and ridiculed, this was the type of world Toni Morrison was raised and lived in. An immense fact of Toni Morrison’s life is that she grew up during a time of extreme racism and civil rights movements for blacks. Being African American herself, Toni, experienced a lot of this action. A lot of her writing was mostly impacted by this time in history. Toni Morrison, is…

Segregation was a major issue in the early and mid-20th century; especially in colleges were not many minorities were able to go to school, until President John F. Kennedy, and President Johnson, required government contractors to hire members of minority groups, universities joined the effort to provide more minorities with opportunities. One man named Allan Bakke had a problem with this, going on to say he was being reverse discriminated upon. Mr. Bakke was upset that colleges were bringing…

Jim Crow laws are defined as any state or local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States between the 1870s and the 1950s. One law that is counted as a Jim Crow law is the Separate Car Act of 1890. This act was passed in Louisiana, and many people disagreed with it, particularly black people. One man named Homer Plessy challenged the constitutionality of this law, and ended up in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1986. Plessy claimed that the Separate Car Act violated the…

The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 I chose to read The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 because I like to learn and or read about historical events. The Watsons are an african american family during the civil rights movement. I like to learn about the civil rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's speech An example of an historically accurate technology is a house phone. Another example could possibly be mail since they didn't have mobile phones. Another example is the TT AB-700 because…

At the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the Reconstruction, America’s first terrorist organization was formed in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee. This group became known as the Ku Klux Klan. The Greek word for circle is “kyklos”, and the term “clan” was added for alliteration purposes. Six former Confederate veterans came together to create this group as a way to politically remove the Republican party and have white Democratic supremacy in power. The second agenda of the Ku Klux Klan was to…