How Did Jim Crow Laws Occur In The Late 1800s

The late 1800s were difficult for African Americans in the south. Though they had been emancipated, they still experienced quite a bit of scrutiny and thus Jim Crow laws came around not too long after. This particular article is from an African American publication after black and white sugar workers walked off a plantation in protest. Though the sugar workers in Louisiana who began organizing the Knights of Labor group were both black and white, only the blacks were targeted in a militia killing after the protest. The article was written with quite a bit of slang in that instead of referring to African Americans as blacks, they were referred to as Negroes. Like most journalistic articles, it began stating the facts but then towards the end, it draws a
It became more of a political piece as opposed to an unbiased newspaper report which is probably not something we would read in an article today unless it was an opinion column. Blacks were not able to leave their neighborhood thus making them a prisoner in their own homes. What a horrific set of events to occur when someone least expects it. The situation rings like a group of active shooters in a neighborhood trying to take control. If someone so much speaks out of turn, they are likely to lose their life. What is extremely despairing about this particular article is that it demonstrates that men who were not even workers in the plantation, blind women, and children were attacked. These people had absolutely nothing to do with the walk off on the sugar plantation. This community was made an example of to those who wanted to oppose their oppressor, and showed them they wouldn’t win. The article discusses how unfair the attack as a group of strange men in plantation wagons approached the site and took