going on.to act. The fact that blacks had limited access to do anything later down the road “only a few blacks even served in Congress in the 1880s and 1890s” (pg.523). This was the beginning of the Jim Crow Laws. They also had a Poll Tax Liberty Test basically this test was rigged‚ which made it unfair to blacks. Therefore “at the end of the reconstruction in 1900 African- Americans owned only a small percent of land” (pg. 522). By 1940 only about three percent of blacks had voted. Which really isn’t
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“The Strange Career of Jim Crow” is considered one of the great works of Southern history and was published in 1955. The book gives an analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and shed light to the fact that segregation actually may have caused more of a divide than slavery. It also shows that there was considerable mixing of the races during the reconstruction period. The book was also cited to counter arguments for segregation so often that Martin Luther King Jr. called it “the historical Bible
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Jim Crow started after Federal troops pulled out of the South and white supremacist Democrats “redeemed” their state governments‚ meaning that former Republican state legislatures during the Reconstruction era were voted out by Southern whites and voted in the would be dominate Democrats for decades. The first laws pushed by southern Democrats were intended to suppress blacks first and foremost‚ and also stop at any means their vote. The dominating ideal of white supremacy still engulfed the South
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Literature Review The New Jim Crow PAD5043 I must say that I may have been completely wrong about the state of diversity in our country. I have worked in public service for literally my entire working life (30 years) and in public safety for all of it. I have worked in inner city areas and subsidized housing plans. But my opinion has been similar to that of most white Americans; that people of color do not want a hand up‚ they want a hand out. Not to be derogatory
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The book‚ The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness‚ by Michelle Alexander‚ has a few different themes. The themes that stuck out to me from both readings and lectures are ignorance and denial‚ and the failure of colorblindness. The central theme of Alexander’s book is basically that the American system of mass incarceration is a systematic effort to ostracize people of color just like the old Jim Crow laws did in the 19th and 20th centuries. The present-day prisons make it
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Both the Jim Crow laws in the United States and Apartheid in South Africa were disgusting examples of government-sanctioned racism that discriminated against and fostered inequality among the African-American and African populations of the United States and South Africa‚ respectively. Although both systems of discrimination have been struck down through the countries respective legal systems‚ unfortunately they have had damaging lasting effects that continue to harm the black populations in both
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mistreatment of the African Americans still continued. With laws like The Jim Crow Laws mandating separation of the races in all aspects of life in the south being in the 1890s made life unbearably hard for people of color. Waterfountatins‚ restaurants‚ theaters‚ restrooms‚ doors‚ buses‚ trains‚ workplaces‚ and other public facilities were designated with “White Only” and “Colored” signs. These laws fueled racial discrimination. These types of laws existed until the 1960s when the Civil Rights Movement
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Black people who lived in southern and border-states between 1877 and the mid-1960s were forced to endure a series of basically ‘anti-black’ laws. These laws are referred to as The Jim Crow laws which described many rules and regulations that made black people second class citizens. The Jim Crow Laws were created to segregate people of color from whites in a racist post- civil war society. In the late 1870s‚ Southern state legislatures passed laws requiring the separation of whites from persons of
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Barring black Americans from a status equal to that of white Americans‚ Jim Crow was established as a system of segregation and discrimination in the United States of America. The United States Supreme Court had a crucial role in the establishment‚ maintenance‚ and‚ eventually‚ the end of Jim Crow. The Supreme Court’s sanctioning of segregation (by upholding the "separate but equal" language in state laws) in the Plessey v. Ferguson case in 1896 and the refusal of the federal government to enact
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the Civil War‚ and the North‚ who were still basking in their momentous victory in the Civil War. The road to reconstruction would be paved with its share of issues‚ whether it be the paradox of sharecropping‚ which was doing little to nothing to differentiate itself from slavery; or the menacing black code‚ which intimidated free blacks to forego their brand new civil rights‚ and avoid things like voting‚ and pursuing occupations other than farming. Then‚ there were the enforcers of
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