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    African American has been through serious events throughout the decades, even now there is still racism between races sadly. The Jim Crows Laws were created in 1876, it was created after the Civil War. The Jim Crow Laws were extreme and horrible, they would separate the blacks from whites from basically everything you can think of. They would have signs saying white or colored, this applied to all colored young and old, doesn’t matter what age. Only their skin color would affect how they were treated

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    Klux Klan which aimed to bring down African Americans to be seen as less than then human. However, the Jim Crow laws caused separation, and that separation led to African Americans having unequal opportunities. These laws were claimed to be constitutional, because they didn't deprive any person of life, liberty, or property; or trying to include slavery. From the Black codes to Jim Crow laws, African Americans had, and have many hurdles to overcome. In order to limit the voting rights of African

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    Separate but equal. These three words were used to justify the countless lynchings, riots, as well as legal segregation. The Jim Crow laws stranglehold on the American people was slowly diminishing. The racist regimes which dictated that African Americans be granted the basic rights but not a thing more, only perpetuated the idea of keeping the African Americans as second class citizens, was slowly coming to a close. Langston Hughes could not accept to be thrown into being a second class citizen

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    The integration of the two subjects, is between Jim Crow laws and To Kill A Mockingbird, that in 1930’s segregation of blacks and whites was needed, from the point of view. The creation of Jim Crow laws was to make and keep an enforcement that everything is either for blacks or whites. In contexts of To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout describes when traveling to the black church that there were two completely different sides of the town, one for white and one for blacks. After the end of the United States

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    Jim Crow laws were social practices of discrimination with white people against the opposite race as them, which was mainly against African Americans. However, the term was originally referred to a black character in the 1800’s minstrel shows in which white performers wore “blackface,” and pretended to be black characters. Once reconstruction ended, it opened a door to the “Jim Crow era,” and began a long period in which African Americans in the south were denied the full rights of Aamerican citizenship

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    Jim Crow Laws were when the government passed a law where black people went to different schools, churches, and grocery stores. They had to sit at that back of the bus, pretty much everything is based off your race. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird was during the time of the Jim Crow Law. Tom Robinson ( man accused of rape) was not guilty due to his race. Jim Crow Laws were used in the southern states, the first Jim Crow Law passed in Louisiana. This law was enforced after slavery, because white

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    real-life events as inspiration to write her novel. Events like when the Jim Crow laws were still effective, the behaviors of mob mentality, and the racism in the Scottsboro Trial. The Jim Crow laws are laws to help keep the white people in control and have them dominate the blacks. Jim Crow was the name for the racial system that operated mostly in the south during 1877 and mid-1960s (Pilgrim 1). The Jim Crow laws were not only laws against the blacks, but they were also a way of life. Many

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    living in America was affected by the Jim Crow laws. Segregation in America became apparent and the order of the day and was evident in several instances such as in churches, hospitals, cemeteries, saloons and all other social avenues and even in the manner in which public school textbooks were sold (Morehouse, 2000). The blacks were denied the right to access certain locations such as swimming pools and amusement parks. The most intimidating part of the Jim Crow laws is that some of the whites used it

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    How Black Codes Led to Jim Crow Laws What I Already Knew and What I Wanted to Know For my research topic I chose “Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws.” I chose this topic because I have heard about Jim Crow Laws many times through television, books, and history classes but never in depth. I wanted to know more about the topic, along with black codes, which I have never heard about and didn’t know existed. Choosing this topic allowed me to gain more knowledge on both of these topics. Before this paper

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    The Jim Crow laws perpetuated segregation. This set of rules to show the dominance of the white race were absolutely appalling. They were mainly operated in the southern portion of the United States, but not exclusively. The Jim Crow laws “were in place from the late 1870’s until the civil rights movement began in the 1950’s” (“Jim Crow Laws”). Blacks and whites could not use the same drinking fountains, restrooms, or attend the same restaurants, churches, and schools. It was considered rape or

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