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    As an illustration, when we receive an insult from someone, in a way it’s like if those insults are echoing in our mind with no trace of leaving and something inside us shatters into million pieces. Even though, the Jim Crow laws were positively changing society, today it appears there are similar characteristics of segregation in our daily life. For example, schools. (Powell 1:95)

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    With that, therefore the Jim Crow laws develop. Jim crow laws were enforced racial segregation no in the United States. this meaning that always white and blacks had to be separated on buses, restaurants, movies, etc. Also, that means more hard punishment and disrespect for blacks. With knowing that this is going daily. It must and should’ve to affect individuals in ways that we wouldn’t want to know. By this encountered the experiences of the Jim Crow laws. With frequently inflamed news for

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    (“DBQ: Is Mayella Ewell Powerful?” 7). The Jim Crow Laws made Mayella’s accusation of Tom raping her even worse. In addition to Mayella’s race making her powerful her class in society contributed to that power. Even though Mayella was very low in society and looked down upon by the white people in the town

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    Crow Laws The Jim Crow laws from the 1930s were about power. Power of one race over another. These laws really highlight the flaws and weakness of human nature. Although the Jim Crow Laws from the 1930s and the various laws presented today have some of the same impacts, there are still many differences between the two on black rights. The Jim Crow Laws were a system of laws and regulations that African Americans were forced to follow between 1877 and the mid-1960s. The laws were

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    May 18, 1896 in a 7-1 decision, the policy of “separate but equal” was declared constitutional and enacted. This policy of segregation lasted almost 60 years until Brown vs. Board overturned the law, announcing it to be unconstitutional in 1954. The outcome of Plessy vs. Ferguson welded segregation into law, ultimately resulting in the perpetuation of pre-existing divisions in America. When the Plessy vs. Ferguson case was in progress, some whites began to feel a sense of superiority over colored

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    because the threat of them succeeding economically, educationally, and socially created competition for things that whites felt they were entitled to. Jim Crow laws were created as a way to control the success of African Americans and prevent them from reaching their full potential in society. Evidence of their actions proves this in the laws they made, the ways they treated them, and the words said about them. Whites felt entitled to these things because they viewed themselves as “supreme”. The threat

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    So, what is the relationship between race, class, and gender on the life balances of people to progress their relative position in this socially stratified world? Well, to begin with, social stratification is a system by which a society positions categories of people in a hierarchy. In American society, it is clearly obvious that some groups have greater status, power, and wealth than other groups do. It has been this way for centuries. How does race, class and gender impact inequality in the US

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    that the Jim Crows Laws were entirely outrageous and gave no real hope to the people who truly needed it. The Jim Crow laws are the laws that made the separation of the “nonwhites” (Expert Space) from the whites legal. Some of the whites used to think that they were “naturally smarter and more civilized than blacks” (Expert Space). The creation of the Jim Crow laws took place in about 1880, after World War II ended; it ended due to the Civil Rights Act in the 1950’s. These laws were started in the

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    In the text “Jim Crow laws” It infers that’’ African-Americans began to organize, protest, and fight segregation and the jim crow laws in the 1900’s the supreme Court said that segregation of the schools was illegal in the famous Brown v. Board of education case. Later, protests such as the montgomery Bus Boycott and the March

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    want to keep and secure their power. The feeling of citizenship comes along with opportunities and Max was not able to receive these when he was black. Max was aware of the rights that he was unfairly stripped of, largely impart of the Jim Crow Laws. These laws created and enforced unequal practices in the American society. In the New Jim Crow it explains, “The federal government no longer made any effort to enforce federal

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