Natalie Erdman Miss Atz English 9 Honors (Period 4) 15 February 2012 Mayella’s Testimony I hear someone call my name‚ my full name “Mayella Violet Ewell!” I can hear it loud and clear‚ I’m so scared. I know what really happened but I can’t tell. I walk toward the witness stand‚ terrified. I stop before enterin’‚ take the oath sayin I’ll say the truth‚ the whole truth‚ and nothing but the truth; but it’s all a lie‚ the oath and what I’ll testify. I’m sittin’ in the stand‚ lookin’ the
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“The Strange Career of Jim Crow” was simply a book about racism. Other critics also attack his style of writing in this very popular novel. However‚ I believe that Woodward’s novel is not just a book about racism. It is a book about history. I believe it is a book about race relations‚ not racism. Woodward shatters the stereotypical view of segregation through chronicling the history of America from reconstruction through the late 1960’s. The Strange Career of Jim Crow is not simply a book about
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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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graduated from Vanderbilt University and Stanford Law School. Alexander was the director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU in Northern California. While there‚ she began to look more deeply into issues of criminal justice reform and started a campaign against racial 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
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In the article‚ The New Jim Crow‚ author and professor Michelle Alexander eloquently examines and delves into how mass incarceration in the United States is a new type of class structure‚ a new racial caste system (Alexander 7). Her motive is to increase understanding on the issue‚ be a force for change‚ and foster dialogue. She provides the reader context on her life by giving personal examples as well as using facts and background to cement her thesis. Alexander constructs both a compelling and
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I listened to the audiobook version of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and as I listened I walked through the streets of Boston. One night as I listened to Michelle Alexander talk about how African American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by the police‚ I came across two Emerson Police Officers forcing a black man to the ground. He knelt down with his hands in the air as they patted his body down. Maybe he had done something do deserve this treatment
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Jim Crow Rule Jim Crow was a dance made up by a white American. The dance and song itself were written by a comedian Thomas Dartmouth Rice‚ also known as Daddy Rice‚ in 1828‚ which depicted African-American culture. On the other hand‚ the performances were deriding slavery whilst poor African-Americans had to deal with the indignity. That was what the jumped Jim Crow dance and song was all about. The Jim Crow term can be defined as a system of racial oppression. Not long after the Civil War had
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In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness‚ Michelle Alexander examines our current criminal justice system and the mass incarceration of African Americans in the United States. She argues that the War on Drugs and drug offense convictions are the single most compelling cause for the magnitude of people of color behind bars. Prisons are used as a system of racial and social control that function in the same way as Jim Crow laws. It is no longer legal to discriminate against
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The movie “From Swastika to Jim Crow” was produced in 2000. Even though‚ it was made in 2000 there was many connections to today’s current events. The speaker stated‚ they wanted to present the movie before the election to understand and analyze an educator’s point of view. However due to the hurricane they had to postpone the movie‚ until after the election which made this event and discussion more prevalent. The movie was a documentary explaining the similarities between Nazism in Germany and
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Jim Crows laws enforced racial segregation in the south of the USA between the end of reconstruction which was during the Civil War in 1877 and also during the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950’s. Jim Crow is a minstrel routine that was performed in the beginning of 1828 by its author. In the late 1870’s Southern Legislatures passed laws requiring separation of whites from “persons of colour” in schools and public transportation. The segregation was then extended to parks‚ cemeteries
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