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    Bibliography: (1) http://www.alternativeinsight.com/Reparations-Slavery.html Field‚ Ron; "Civil Rights in America 1865-1980"; Cambridge University Press http://www.lawbuzz.com/can_you/plessy/plessy.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal

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    all have negative effects. The three most prominent effects of discrimination and segregation combined are Inferiority‚ fear‚ and anger. Inferiority is a major issue when discussing the effects of discrimination and segregation. In the Plessy vs. Ferguson case it was ruled that there may be segregation‚ but the people must be equal-Separate but Equal”. After this ruling all facilities were separated according to race‚ but in fact were not even close to being equal to each other. The white

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    Jim Crow

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    C. Vann Woodward’s book The Strange Career of Jim Crow is a close look at the struggles of the African American community from the time of Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement. The book portrays a scene where the Negroes are now free men after being slaves on the plantations and their adaptation to life as being seen as free yet inferior to the White race and their hundred year struggle of becoming equals in a community where they have always been seen as second class citizens. To really

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    was a victory for the slave population. This is because the case examined whether African American should be viewed as citizens. Without this case there would be no example of slaveries inequality in the eyes of the legal system. The of Plessy v. Ferguson argued the how constitutional Jim Crow laws were in the South. It highlight the

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    The Jim Crow Laws

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    These laws were put into effect before the civil war and originally passed primarily in major cities and states in the South. In the book Jim Crow Laws by Leslie V. Tischauser‚ the author states that “from 1881 to 1964‚ Jim Crow Laws separated Americans by race in 26 states.” The government told the people that “it was codified on local and state levels” and that it was “separate but equal” (Jim Crow Law). They

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    had; about the poor treatment of blacks especially in the South and how the Compromise of 1876 and the withdrawal of the troops from the South meant the end of protected freedoms for black Americans. Blight’s book also reflects the readings “Plessy v. Ferguson” and “Congressman Frank Clark Praises Segregation‚ 1908” from Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. It reconfirms that black Americans were not seen as citizens or in a lot of cases as human beings‚ but as a dirty inferior

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    Ruther-Fraud B. Hayes

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    “Hayes was never a solitary‚ a boy of moods‚” wrote biographer H.J. Eckenrode. “He had no seasons of exaltation followed by depression… All his life he liked society and shone in it in a modest way – not sparkling‚ not brilliant‚ but pleasing‚ satisfying. He had a gift of friendship and most of those he loved in youth he loved in age.” As a young man‚ however‚ Hayes went through a period of great inner tension‚ which he himself attributed to a fear that he would one day lose his mind‚ as some relatives

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    2019253--4th Hour More than five years ago‚ a Mississippi court featured a case with a biased and racially bigoted jury (Washington). The defendant‚ Curtis Flowers‚ could not receive a fair trial as long as whites outnumbered African Americans on the jury. Aside from the fact that Curtis Flowers’ verdict was guilty‚ the case reveals the abundance of racism evident in courts. Throughout the second part of To Kill a Mockingbird‚ racism overshadows equality in the Tom Robinson Case. Many changes come

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    Plessy Vs Ferguson

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    In Plessy v. Ferguson a person who was 1/8‚ black was arrested for riding the white car in a Louisiana train. This arouse the African Americans should be treated equal. This was settled by the courts deciding to segregate thing. How ever this time they were to

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