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    anybody know about Jim Crow probably not. Well he played a big part in to kill a mockingbird because it was basically of how segregation. Also saying that whites are superior over blacks.It connection to to kill a mockingbird is that it had segregation and the whites though they was superior.Also a another thing that played a key part in the to kill a mockingbird Tom didn’t not have fair trial also Plessy didn’t get a fair trial.They were both guilty‚ but they souldn’t be guilty. Jim Crow is not a person

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    Beaten‚ fined‚ and intimidated. According to the constitution-- specifically amendment 13 and 15-- I am a Freedman. Although these are the documents the federal government stands by‚ the Jim Crow laws gives me less opportunity and puts me at a disadvantage compared to the average white man. Who is supposed to protect my right‚ protect my vote‚ and protect me as an individual when it is legal because of the Black Codes to segregate and oppress all blacks. There is not any place in America where I

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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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    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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    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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    The March on Washington was a political rally in which people all over America who shared beliefs‚ gathered to protest against the injustice imposed upon African Americans. For hundreds and hundreds of years‚ blacks and whites were accepted differently. Blacks were believed to be inferior and lesser than whites. They were held as slaves‚ treated as objects‚ and sold like property. When slavery was abolished‚ segregation and oppression continued. Blacks and whites could not eat together‚ use the same

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    The Scottsboro Trials‚ which tried and unfairly convicted nine innocent black youths of raping two white females (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica)‚ was a milestone in the African-American civil rights movement‚ primarily because of the way racism influenced the outcome of the trials. Firstly‚ the protests held against the convictions mobilized the movement for equal rights. This was illustrated on May 8th‚ 1933‚ ten years after the last notable African-American March on Washington‚ when upwards

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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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