Jim Crow Laws And The Segregation: Video Analysis

I was very shocked to see how the video showed how the movie Birth of Nation and how race opporates in the U.S are still prevelant today. We are still living a place where people of color are still thrown under the bus for things either they did'nt commit or just because it can be done to them because they are considered a minority and are known as second class citizens. An yes Jim Crows Laws still exsist today in a more discrete form, however, alot of people see it as well. Only difference is now people can join together as a movement to seek some sort of justice. That will probably never happen, since issues such as them ones shown in the video have been going on for years and may still go on for years to come. I believe out of all the information

First off, it is a common belief that today racism is something that people are born with, especially Southerners because of the history of slavery in the South. In the video, 13th, it said that 1 in 3 black men are expected

The sources 1 and 2 says, “nor for any person intermarrying with any freedman.” An example used was, “An African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allergerdly flirting with a white woman.” In the documentary, at 1 hour and 20 minutes, a person said, “I don’t believe in intermarrying.” This shows that intermarrying or even contact with other races it's still not believed by people of this time. From 2003 to 2010 (show in sources) blacks had the highest percentages of being unemployed. Their percentages are so much higher that we know that it will continue to increase. Not only they are the most unemployed but the most in poverty and most of them are homeless. This shows that blacks are the ones that can’t get a job easily. There was a fighting for the 15th amendment, which African Americans had the right to vote but white people's wanted to take out that amendment with Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, and Grandfather Clause. African Americans couldn’t be able to vote because they couldn’t read, couldn’t afford money and their grandfathers weren’t even able to vote which there was no chance on voting. Andrew Johnson would only defend white people and not other races that are shown which means only white men should have a guard against others. A quote says, “This is a

What if you woke up one day and everything became separate? School, sports, and even parks; would you be able to cope with Jim Crow laws? Though many whites opposed the idea of integration and supported Jim Crow laws, many citizens of color fought for the right to use the same restroom, water fountain, go to the same schools, and even to intermarry. Jim Crow laws were instituted to separate those of color and whites, because of this, many blacks were discriminated against in social areas and job and school opportunities.

The angry African American crowd chanted, “Separate but equal isn’t equal!”. The Jim Crow laws were considered legally fair , but they were really degrading to blacks in most public facilities. The laws basically allowed racism and discrimination, but said it wasn’t. Blacks faced many places and spots that were segregated mainly in the south. Some of the main areas that this segregation happened was on public buses, schools, and balloting poles. The African American population was outraged by this.

About a hundred years after the Civil War, almost all American lived under the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow Laws actually legalized segregation. These racially enforced rules dominated almost every aspect of life, not to mention directed the punishments for any infraction. The key reason for the Jim Crow Laws was to keep African Americans as close to their former status as slaves as was possible. The following paper will show you the trials and tribulations of African Americans from the beginning through to the 1940’s where segregation was at its peak.

Theres is no secret that the blatant civil rights violations imposed on blacks in America through racial segregation laws served as an injustice to all American citizens in the mid-1900s. At the heart of the segregation battle was the obvious mistreatment, both physical and emotional, bestowed onto African Americans by their white counterparts, especially in the South. After decades of harsh mistreatment, African American leaders sought out to challenge, and ultimately change, the laws and legislation drafted by their government centuries before those men and women existed. Though peaceful protests were a common method of action blacks chose to partake in, many of these individuals were met commonly with acts of violence from angry southerners

As you can see from the amendments, African Americans and other minorities were treated differently from whites. As whites were proclaimed to be superior than them. This was very true in the South. The Jim Crow laws were laws that prohibited blacks from doing things like not using the same public facilities, busses, and even attending the same schools. Many people believed that these laws were unjust. But it wasn’t until the 1890’s until they were changed in court. Homer Plessy wouldn’t give up his seat on a train to a white man in New

Blacks were treated like they weren't human they would have to use, ‘’Colored’’, drinking fountains and restrooms;Blacks schools and white schools were also segregated allowing

Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness goes into great detail on race related issues that were specific to black males, the mass incarceration, and how that lead to the development of institutionalized racism in the United States. She compares the Jim Crow with recent phenomenon of mass incarceration and points out that the mass incarceration is a network of laws, policies, customs and institutions that have been working together to warrant the subordinating status of black males. In this paper I will go into a brief examination of the range of issues that she mentions in her book that are surrounding the mass incarceration of black male populations.

Black men had to be careful with women. They couldn't look at women in the eye or whistle at them because they would get hanged. There was an assault in Rosewood a black man got into a White House and assaulted a woman she wasn't hurt badly. Then the white women husband started a riot with white men to go and kill all black people that they see. The riot started to burn down the buildings that are owed by the black people. There was one women that ran out of a burning building was shot in the jaw and took it right off. People didn't want to go outside to the riot so they hid under the burning buildings. A group of blacks were barracked in a building while the whites were firing rounds after rounds in the building. To this day no one knows

Upon being elected president in 1860, Abraham Lincoln sought the abolition of slavery. The Confederate states were against this, so they started a Civil War between them and the Union states. The Union states won, but the Confederate states did not take it lightly. The white people discriminated and segregated black people. The black people had separate schools, drinking fountains, and eating establishments. The Jim Crow Laws promoted segregation and violence and as time went on the Civil Rights Movement came about.

In spite of farmer success after the end of slavery, African Americans were still discriminated against in most places, especially in the south. Many places there was an apparent dislike of freedmen which really began on the railroads. It began with segregated cars, then depots, water fountains, bathrooms, beaches, pools, lunch counters, and lastly, voting booths. Segregation started as a silent movement spreading without much notice in the beginning. However, in North Carolina it became evident that segregation existed quite clearly with the Wilmington Riot. It began when Alexander Manly started to publish debilitating articles about rape cases as false and claimed that most rapes were by the white man upon the black. However he also stated

Furguson case the Supreme Court was providing separate railway carriages for the white and colored races. Something important to realize was the Court upheld a Louisiana law requiring restaurants, hotels, hospitals, and other public places to serve African Americans in separate, but ostensibly equal, accommodations. People were constantly judging people by the color of their skin and not who they truly are people's ignorance constantly made them judge people. Martin Luther King junior once stated, “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.”This legislation made it a crime for an individual to deny “the full and equal enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters and other places of public

Throughout the video we looked at the fact that the presence of blacks in Mexico and Peru seem to be near nonexistent even though there was a large number of African slaves taken to these two countries. It was even said that the number of African slaves taken into Mexico and Peru outnumber the slaves that were in the United States. One aspect of this phenomenon was that in Mexico, the African culture was mixed with the whites and Spanish culture early on, resulting in the “dilution” of African presence in Mexico. After the abolition of slavery in 1830 the Catholic Church even allowed interracial marriage between the blacks, whites, and Spanish. In one part of the video we were shown a wall that the commentator even called “The Sixteen Shades of Blacks” because of the different colors of all the people in the painting to emphasize the intermingling of races. So in current day Mexico there is very few 100 percent African residents, most are mulatto, moreno, or mestizo, which are all mixed race. Also the Mexican government decided that in the seventeenth century that racial categories should be eliminated, while this seemed to be a step in the right direction for equality, it ended up covering up the rich African history in Mexico and now a vast majority of citizens of Mexico do not understand the history they do have.