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    he is black. However‚ your policy is not justified because Jim Crow Laws was already over in the 1990s‚ black people are not being treated equal‚ and competing in the tournament was Dondre Green’s “pursuit of happiness.” One reason why the management is not justified is because Jim Crow Laws was already over in the 1990s. For example‚ the Jim Crow Laws only lasted until the mid 1960s. This shows that the management is ignoring The Jim Crow laws. This also shows that the management is not treating

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    The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward gives a complete historical analysis of the beginning of the impact on race relations within and outside of the South‚ and its legal end in 1965. After the Brown v. Board of Education decision‚ Woodward wrote lectures about the basis of segregation and slavery and such. Woodward’s lectures were originally directed to a local southern audience‚ but as his lectures developed into a wide-ranging text they extended towards national recognition. Woodward

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    The Jim Crow laws were created as a way to segregate black people. Way back in our history‚ blacks were discriminated against and segregated from public spaces‚ public vehicles‚ and even employment. The documentary the Central Park Five points out to us what the newer and more hidden form of what may be called the new Jim Crow looks like today. Sure we no longer tell blacks to sit in the back of the bus‚ but we deny jobs to those who have a criminal records; we incarcerate innocent people because

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    In her book‚ The New Jim Crow‚ Michelle Alexander proposes that in order to end this system‚ we must end the War on Drugs. However‚ she also argued that “If we hope to end this system of control‚ we cannot be satisfied with a handful of reforms.” It is true‚ as a complete change

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    According to Sources One‚ Two and Three‚ the Jim Crow laws had a major impact upon the legal and social lives of African Americans living in the Southern States‚ which included restriction on speech‚ food and beverage‚ relationships and many more. Firstly‚ in Source 1‚ Clifford Boxley states that African American males “You don’t mess with white women. You don’t talk back to white women. You don’t sass white women. You don’t even find yourself in the presence of white women alone‚ okay?” This situation

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    In the new Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander‚ She talked about how the prison system makes it harder for African Americans.When prisoners leaves from prison there mentally still imprisoned there not used to the real world like most of us there more used to be inside of a cell they have to understand the rules and regulations and now they’re being put as a felon. My first claim talks about they lost their right to vote and the reason for that is they show they don’t respect the society it’s a continued

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    The Jim Crow laws may have been abolished but that does not mean that the injustice for minorities is abolished. Minorities are facing a significant amount of injustice based on their skin color. More African American’s and Latinos are being arrested and discriminated more because of these harsher penalties. For example‚ the war on drugs‚ was actually not a way to get drugs off the streets and to better the communities. The campaign convinced many Americans to go along with it and see that it was

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    Background. The ‘Jim Crows Laws’ because not everyone got treated the same. Some blacks got send to jail because they didn’t want to do something for one of the whites. There was a lot of slavery in the old time because a lot of blacks were treated bad. Some blacks migrated to the north because they had the right to vote. Before that the blacks couldn’t vote but government let them to vote unless if they moved to the north. Not everyone had the same race people got treated bad because of their race

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    profiling. She worked at private law firms specializing in plaintiff-side class-action lawsuits regarding racial and gender discrimination. She then later became a writer. In The New Jim Crow she exployed the prejustice that black people face in America. She noted that while slavery

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    The New Jim Crow “Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans” states Michelle Alexander‚ (the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010) )‚ in an interview with a nonprofit‚ independent publisher of educational materials known as Rethinking Schools. A perfect example of Michelle Alexander’s statement is Sonya Jennings who is an African American mother

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