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    sinse the Jim Crow laws? During the Jim Crow Era African-Americans in some states were treated as second-class citizens in every aspect of life from how they interact with White Americans to not having the right to vote. Many

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    Jim Crow was a system created white Americans to separate and segregate a certain race of people from them. African Americans, Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and dogs were the main race and animal included in the separation and segregation from White Americans The Jim Crow system consisted of one sided laws, rules, and regulations to prohibit African Americans, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans to have the same rights as White Americans. The Jim Crow laws were created towards the end of the Reconstruction

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    From 1877 to the mid 1960s Jim Crow laws were in place. African Americans were viewed as second class citizens, not equal. Many people, usually ministers, thought whites were “The Chosen People”, that anyone of color was cursed and destined to be a servant. African Americans were almost viewed as animals, and not humans, they were definitely treated that way. After years of fighting and trying to be equal with the white race, African Americans were granted their wish of having rights, and the horrible

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    During the early 1900’s a set of laws were released to the Southern United States. They we're named the Jim Crow Laws. They enforced racial segregation on African Americans and white men and women. These laws would create completely separate lives for black and white people making the life of blacks matter less than animals. During the time even the brightest pupils of a town would buttress the fact that all blacks were innately, intellectually, and culturally inferior to whites (Pilgrim 1).There

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    Jim crow Laws were laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States starting from the 1870’s and 80’s. Its goal was to oppress African Americans and treat them horribly no matter male or female. It also wanted African Americans to feel bad and worthless. A man named Thomas Dartmouth was specially known for treating African Americans disrespectfully. He would dress in African Americans clothes (low budget shirts, pants, and shoes) and cover himself in charcoal to make himself look

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    The Jim Crow Law was based on the idea of “Separate but Equal” which impacted the African American people and challenged the Supreme Court’s efforts to give true equality for all. The idea “Separate but Equal” arose after the abolishment of slavery and birth of the Fourteenth Amendment. This new Amendment gave every citizen equal rights no matter the race. However, because of the spread of white resistance, segregation was used to keep the two races separated physically, socially and culturally.

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    achieve equality was made even more difficult by the legislation of racism in the Plessy v. Ferguson case. In the 1950s, after the dispersion of the Reconstruction era, the Jim Crow laws were created. A Jim Crow law was any law that enforced racial segregation in the South. Part of the development of the Jim Crow laws was

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    In the 1930s racism was at its peak. The Jim Crow Laws were the backing for racism. They allowed and in some places enforced laws that constantly humiliated and suppressed african americans from thriving. In the 1930s, blacks had to sit in the back of transportation vessels, blacks and whites were not suppose to eat together or even shake hands with a white person because it symbolizes equality. Jim crow laws forced segregation in the southern states in restaurants, transportation, and social practices

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    Why the Jim Crow Laws Came About Essay

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    Analysis The history of African Americans has had a great impact on our country. They have gone through an extended period of slavery and discrimination and judgment. They are treated, to this day, as a lower level based upon their skin color and their background. They spent many years trying to advance on the social ladder, but had trouble in the process. Every obstacle they overcame, such as slavery, was short lived do to the next, such as voting restrictions. The major reason they were able

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    the Jim Crow laws were passed. Jim Crow laws were a set of laws that segregated the Whites from the Blacks in their everyday lives. Jim Crow was a fictional character in a play used that was to imitate a black man and mock the African American culture. Jim Crow laws were specifically for the African American community. These laws were taken more seriously in the South. The laws enforced racial segregation and were established as “separate but equal” (Jim Crow Laws). The Jim Crow laws had

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