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    The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Webquest Directions: Use complete sentences when answering the questions. Type in the following web address Feel free to look at the pictures and read the information http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/ Click on Jim Crow Stories   1. Click on People and then click on Ida B. Wells. Explain the problems Ida B. Wells faced and her accomplishments. Some problems Ida B. Wells faced were that both of her parents died of yellow fever and she suffered with dealing

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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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    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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    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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    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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    Background. The ‘Jim Crows Laws’ because not everyone got treated the same. Some blacks got send to jail because they didn’t want to do something for one of the whites. There was a lot of slavery in the old time because a lot of blacks were treated bad. Some blacks migrated to the north because they had the right to vote. Before that the blacks couldn’t vote but government let them to vote unless if they moved to the north. Not everyone had the same race people got treated bad because of their race

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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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    In the novel Native Son‚ Wright shows how the white race has power. The character Bigger Thomas struggles to escape the racism in the story. Bigger Thomas is a poor African-American man residing in the southside of Chicago. The author uses imagery to help the reader imagine what the residence appears to be like. The story starts with Bigger trying to rid a rat in his home. Bigger lives in this poor white community away from white establishments. The racism is shown early on in the book by the

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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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