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    How the Jim Crow laws affected blacks Why did whites make blacks feel like second class citizens with Jim Crow laws? Jim Crow laws were racist prejudice laws.The Jim Crow laws made it harder for whites and blacks to create any type of unity.The Jim Crow laws were made in 1877-1954 and were in place for only one thing to separate blacks and white. Schools had to be separated as well as water fountain’s‚ jobs and hospital. This means that it was one race who wanted power over the other race.The laws

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    Analytical Essay: Write an essay analyzing the similarities and differences between the female protagonist in “Pride and Prejudice” and the female protagonist in “Bridget Jones Diary”. Directed by Sharon Maguire in 2001‚ one hundred and eighty-eight years after Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813‚ Bridget Jones’s Diary would seem be quite different compared to Pride version is seen through the plot‚ characters‚ context‚ values‚ and language and film techniques. Pride and Prejudice and Bridget

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    people didn’t get to treat as humans‚ to the laws‚ they are not played any important roles in society. The author disagreed with these laws‚ To Kill A Mockingbird is a book for others to actually think about racism‚ and do something about it. The Jim Crow Laws are laws that separated people from different racial and ethnic descent from white people‚ limited freedom of emancipated slaves‚ discrimination colored people‚ after many citizens protested John F. Kennedy took an act‚ he sent the civil right

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    in many different ways. This system was believed to destroy America as any act of equality to blacks would react as an interracial penalty. If any blacks tried to be equal to rights‚ violence was to be used to keep them at the bottom. The following Jim Crow Laws were extremely severe as the norms were like rules for the blacks such as a black male could not shake a white males hand as it implied having social equality. There also separate drinking fountains for white and blacks‚ they weren’t allowed

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    Section One 1. According to Sources One‚ Two and Three what impact did the Jim Crow laws have upon the legal and social lives of African Americans living in the Southern States? (300 words) The Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation in the American south until the mid-1960s‚ which made black Americans socially and legally inferior to white Americans. These three sources show how these practices impacted their daily lives. Source one is the recollections of a black man about social strictures

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    Jim Crow‚ originating in the late 19th century‚ was the name given to the racial caste system that implemented many anti-black legislations. Following the Great Depression of the 1930’s‚ the poverty that resulted from the economic disaster created more racial tension between whites and blacks. Working class white Americans blamed black Americans for stealing their jobs and homes‚ which influenced local and state governments to reinforce the “separate but equal” decision from the Plessy v. Ferguson

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    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was the 3rd movie in the trilogy. In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade‚ the characters search for the Holy Grail. The film shows several key points on the Holy Grail‚ such as what it is‚ and what its purpose served. The Holy Grail was said to have been used in the last supper as Christ’s cup‚ and it was used to catch His blood from the cross during the crucifixion. The Holy Grail is an important legendary artifact that many have searched for but never found‚

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    The Jim Crow Laws were made to segregate the whites and colored people. Colored people weren’t treated the same whites based on these laws passed in the southern states. Lots of people went to jail or even killed. People couldn’t go to the same bathroom as whites‚ or even use the same entrance as the whites. Some blacks were servants for whites‚ and whites would use other names for colored people that weren’t nice. Whites believe the black were cursed and chosen to be servants for the whites. And

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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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    rights. Southerners were able to accomplish this by creating barriers to voter registration‚ lynching‚ and segregation with evidence from the primary sources to back up my statements. I will characterize relations between blacks and whites during the Jim Crow era as a violent and cruel period in American race. Also characterized by legalized segregation‚ lynch group‚ and white power. African American had

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