The Jim Crow Laws Stranglehold On The American People

Born ten years after the death of Walt Whitman, there was no possible way for Langston Hughes to ever meet or communication with Whitman, but that did not mean Hughes could not establish a connection to him, or at least his work. In 1925, Hughes wrote a poem titled “I, Too” was inspired by and directed in response to the poem “I Hear America Singing”, which was composed by Whitman much earlier. Whitman’s poem consisted of a variety of different American laborers who “sing” as they do their jobs. This well-known poem never specifically addresses the ethnicity of these singing laborers of the American population, but Hughes sets about to rectify that omission.

The Jim Crow laws were everything but fair, and equal. Jim Crow is the name they used in the laws on separating the African Americans from the Caucasian men and women. These laws deprived African Americans from their civil rights because of the many things they were not allowed to experience due to these laws. Jim Crow laws oppressed the educational rights, voting rights, and social freedoms of American citizens, this essay will be discussing the oppression of these rights and freedoms.

Thomas Rico was a famous actor in the 1860’s, who played the character named Jim Crow, in theaters. Around the time that Jim Crow became popular, slave were being free from plantations and new laws were being made in the south. These laws were created to limit the freedom of newly freed African-Americans. White people in the south grew fond of both Jim Crow and the new laws that they started calling these laws “Jim Crow Laws”. Though the African-Americans were freed and had rights, whites would use laws so they could have power over African-Americans,

Jim Crow laws dominated every aspect of African American life from its inception after Reconstruction up to the civil rights era and its affects can still be felt today. During this era of Jim Crow African Americans had different ways of coping with these oppressive laws. These ways of coping included these three methods, migration, agitation and accommodation. Out of these three methods the most effective at defying Jim Crow laws and fighting segregation was agitation.

According to The New Jim Crow (Alexander, 2010), today 's society in the United States

The Jim Crow laws were pretty black and white. Legalized throughout twenty-six states (Tischauser), segregation mandated separate schools, transportation, and public facilities—such as water fountains, restrooms, and playgrounds—from 1881-1964 (Hansan). However, due to the frequent bias of the period, black treatment had often been inferior to the supremacy of whites; whites “had all the power, wealth, and privilege” while blacks “faced seemingly endless incidents of terror and humiliation with hardly any freedom” (Tischauser). The Jim Crow laws, the impetus of racial tensions in the Southern United States, mandated the controversial “separate but equal” segregation of the white populace from that of the colored, demonstrated through inferior black social status and political affairs (Hansan).

White supremacy and the Jim Crow laws of the south continued the bondage and did not bring the Promised Land they envisioned. In 1890, white supremacy in the south where ninety percent of African Americans lived until the Great Migration north that gave way to the Harlem Renaissance. Which was a movement in the 1920 's and 1930 's that opened the discussion on a minority in America. This movement gave a voice to civilians who were slaves sixty years earlier. Even though the Harlem Renaissance was not a true renaissance, the period did serve to stimulate African American writing as well as a new view into politics. They expressed themselves in a way that was once considered too radical. African Americans attacked stereotypes and wrote about what it was like being left out of mainstream America. Their influences fostered racial pride and served as examples for promising young African American writers and activists (Henry Rhodes, Yale University).

Jim Crow laws were put into place to separate whites and blacks in as many ways as possible. These laws denied colored people of their rights and placed colored people’s lives below whites. This essay will talk about the unfairness of Jim Crow laws and what they stood for.

Homeless peple are separeted by their skincolor, their religion and their past. Still in these day some people say that Jim Crow Law was a good law. Califonia law to separated black and white people. But most of the people say that it was a bad law.

Jim Crow laws were laws that created racial segregation. African Americans were forced into separate schools, churches, and even jury boxes. Whites looked down on blacks, and treated them as less than human. It was a very hateful environment. Blacks were unable to get jobs because of the racial segregation, so they became poor. All black schools didn’t receive as much funding as the white schools which meant that the children weren’t receiving a good education. Therefore, Jim Crow laws were laws that made African American people and their culture were separate from whites.

After the Civil War, African Americans were free but not equal, the creation of the Jim Crow Laws were not equal laws for the blacks compared to the whites. It caused many conflicts that many people would not agree with. Jim Crow Laws were created in the 1800’s. Everything around the blacks and the whites were segregated towards their color, and it wasn’t equal. After the Civil War the laws for the blacks we not equal compared to the whites. The issue becomes important when both races start getting into arguments just because of crossing sides or conflict between the two because the laws were unequal and unfair. Jim Crow Laws became active in the 1880’s, over the years white individuals were treated with much more respect than black individuals, all restaurants, water fountains, bathrooms, buses, and anything you could think of was segregated by their color.

African descendants have lived in the United  States of America for over 400 years and since arriving the black race has struggled to obtain equality. Realistically, if you are born black in the United States of America, you are in a sense cursed with the burdens of  systematic oppression and racism.  Slavery and Jim Crow Laws were created by white supremacist to maintain power and authority as they sought out to rule over any and all minority groups they consider inferior to the white race. Fortunately, leaders of the black race have made tremendous strides in their efforts to level out the playing field between the two races.  The rise of abolitionism is were the journey for equality began with black political theorist like, David

The assignment for this week consist of the students choosing between an organization, a person and a specific event during the Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Jim Crow laws were implemented throughout the deep south and around the United States. The law for everting from restaurants, churches and even modes of transportation was segregated. Also during that time many cities were operating not only on Jim Crow, but also establishing sundown towns. The civil rights movement was full swing and tensions were high between both whites and blacks. Especially black men because they were fighting for equal rights in how to be treated.

I Too Sing Equality “I, Too” is a lyrical poem written by Langston Hughes. Hughes wrote “I, Too” to expose how he is obscured and oppressed as a slave. He feels that despite the fact he is a “darker brother” meaning he is a black man, he should be treated equally in the white family he works for. To emphasize his idea, Hughes uses repetition and allusion.

From the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in 1954, laws were in place that enforced racial segregation (referred to as Jim Crow laws). Beginning in the late 1870s , Southern state legislatures, which were no longer under the control of freedmen and carpetbaggers, passed legislation that required whites to be separated from “persons of colour” in schools and public transportation, which was anyone who was strongly suspected of black ancestry. Along with this, the segregation principle extended to theatres, restaurants, cemeteries, and parks in an attempt to prevent contact between whites and blacks as equal members of society. At the state and local level, it was codified and in the infamous U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson. On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy bought a first-class ticket to Covington at the Press Street Depot in New Orleans. After telling the conductor that he was a “colored man”, the former asked him to move to the coloured car, but the latter refused because he exclaimed that he was an American citizen and that he intends to ride to Covington. Soon afterward, Plessy was arrested and dragged off of the train. Four months after his arrest, Plessy’s attorneys entered a plea claiming that Louisiana’s Separate Car Act, which Plessy violated, was unconstitutional. Consequently, this would mean that the court didn’t have the jurisdiction to hear or determine all of the facts. Also, his attorneys claimed that the