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    generation of individuals amongst us who know what it takes to earn those liberties. Anybody of the age of sixty can tell you about the injustices and injury inflicted upon African American in the past. Enacted between the years of 1876 and 1965‚ Jim Crow laws were local and state laws whose sole purpose was to keep Blacks oppressed. The laws mandated that Whites and Blacks be segregated in all things. In the North‚ de facto segregation was practiced‚ meaning that segregation was not condoned by the

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    Wright vs. Jim Crow: From the Ethics of Living Jim Crow by Richard Wright Social situations illustrate the power of how external pressures influence peoples’ reactions and responses. The pressures can often have a strong effect on their responses. Richard Wright’s "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow" illustrates his cruel childhood lesson of learning how to live with the prejudice and discrimination. It is an autobiographical sketch of the Negro experience in a white-dominant society. Whites

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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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    Ineradicable Scars His racial status‚ his poverty‚ the disruption of his family‚ and his faulty education allowed Richard Wright to grow into a novelist astonishingly different than other major American writers. Richard Wright was born on a Rucker plantation in Adams County‚ Mississippi. He was born on September 4‚ 1908 to Ella Wilson‚ a schoolteacher and Nathaniel Wright‚ a sharecropper. When Wright was about six years old‚ his father abandoned Ella and his two sons in a penniless condition to run off with

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    February 5‚ 2013 Senior Seminar The New Jim Crow In the book “The New Jim Crow” author Michelle Alexander talks about numerous issues of racial inequality in our criminal justice system. Alexander’s book is something every person who even has an interest in the criminal justice field should read‚ as it really looks beyond the color of a person’s skin. Alexander points out the vast majority of the problems our criminal justice system faces in racial inequality and discrimination. These problems

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    Old Jim Crow VS New Jim Crow The Jim Crow laws were racial laws mostly against blacks; they promoted racial discrimination. Laws like colored sat in the back of vehicles‚ colored had a different water fountain‚ and colored people could not vote‚ or live in certain areas. The Jim Crow laws were more than laws‚ they were a way of life for some whites. It was a way of life that saw blacks as inferior beings. Even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were passed‚ did it really help rid our nation of prejudice

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     Jim Crow Laws The name for the Jim Crow Laws comes from a character in a Minstrel Show. The Minstrel Show was one of the first forms of American entertainment‚ which started in 1843. They were performed by successors of black song and dance routine actors. The first Minstrel Show was started by a group of four men from Virginia‚ who all painted their faces black and performed a small song and dance skit in a small theater in New York City. Thomas Dartmouth Rice‚ a white

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    that didn’t always help them. Those laws that went against it or found a way around the Civil Rights act of 1866. There have been laws‚ acts‚ and amendments to help end segregation and then there have also been laws to encourage segregation. The Jim Crow laws have discriminated in so many ways since it was created. These laws often kept African Americans from going into certain public places

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    the Jim Crow laws were created by the white southerners against the blacks. These laws‚ passed after the Civil War through World War II‚ were typically created for the discrimination against blacks by denying them their equal rights. Reconstruction further strengthened the desire to keep blacks as inferiors and withhold their rights. The South’s defeat in the Civil War‚ followed by Reconstruction‚ destroyed the slave society‚ but couldn’t eliminate the underlying social attitudes. The Jim Crow laws

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    What Was Jim Crow? Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily‚ but not exclusively in southern and border states between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-Black laws. It was a way of life. Under Jim Crow‚ African Americans were relegated to the status of second class citizens. Jim Crow represented the legitimization of anti-Black racism. Many Christian ministers and theologians taught that Whites were the Chosen people‚ Blacks

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