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    problem with people is that many don’t like to see other ethical culture succeed. What people don’t know is that if that ethical group does not succeed then they together can not succeed as a racial community. The end of slavery but the rise of Jim Crow laws brought the acts of inequality, separation, and the mistreatment of the colored. During the end of formal reconstruction in the south in 1877, a new beginning of racial segregation began in the United States of America. “White people don’t like to

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    Stephen Tighe Book Report 4/3/15 Peggy Pascoe’s “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America,” published in 2012, is a historical and legal analysis that emphasizes the impact of racial segregation and desegregation in our society. The book primarily focuses on the roles of race and gender in these extremely significant legal happenings, though other important talking points are acknowledged as well. The main narrative of racial implication is the underlying theme

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    rights, and rights the whites obtained. African Americans were victims to abuse, verbal and physical harassment and in many cases murder. White supremacists wanted all the power and when African Americans fought back they were given Jim Crow laws. These laws considered the blacks and whites “equal” but separate. This wasn’t the case though, African Americans always got the shorter end of the stick. Government, schools, and many white supremacists didn’t want African Americans to get an education

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    fountain; black people aren’t allowed to get a higher education or have the finer things; black people aren’t going to be paid equally. These were more than normal events happened daily when Jim Crow laws were a large part of life causing heavy tension between races around 70 years ago. Jim Crow laws that were deeply rooted in the racist, discriminate, and segregant race relations of America in the 1930’s regarding the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, greatly vary from the present day. The insightful

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    ending slavery. There were three primary sets of laws controlling slaves and Freedmen including Slave Codes, Black Codes, and Jim Crow Laws. Each set of laws has proven a necessary component in United States history that eventfully declared African Americans free, with full rights. But when you consider the treatment of the Blacks before they were deemed free, Black Codes were the worst for African Americans when compared to Slave Codes and Jim Crow Laws. The African Americans faced some of the worst

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    South, accredited to Jim Crow Laws. Jim Crow Laws greatly restricted black’s rights in America, on both social and judicial levels, until their repeal. While there is still racism in modern America, it does not exist in the same quantity as it did during the 1930’s. Jim Crow Laws were laws in the U.S. which enforced racial segregation within the South between 1877 and the civil rights movement’s beginning during the 1950’s (“Jim Crow Law” Britannica). Jim Crow Laws restricted many things for Blacks

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    Jim Crow

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    mob of white kids tackle, and beat you down. “Get rid of this nigger” one of them screams. The fear Terrance Robert felt that day was one of the too many days of discrimination, and abuse that African Americans went through (Terrance, 14). Jim Crow laws started to evolve in 1883, when the Democrats overturned the Civil Rights Act in 1875. The stereotype that blacks were sexually uncontrollable caused the fear of rape for numerous white woman. Many whites also feared interracial marriage, and thought

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    portrayed, therefore she desired to reveal the truth behind their lives through a book of interviews. The film, The Help, while not going in depth is quite historically accurate through the depiction of social classes, racial segregation, the Jim Crow laws, and the Civil Rights Movement (dealing with racism, violence, and homicide).

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    historical events to influence the creation of To Kill a Mockingbird. The Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and the Scottsboro trials are some of the historical events that inspired To Kill a Mockingbird. The first influence on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws are laws that were set to restrict Blacks, these laws were considered a way of life (Pilgrim). People thought that these laws were necessary because craniologists, eugenicists, phrenologists, and Social Darwinists

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    place during this difficult time. The Jim Crow Laws, Mob Mentality and the Scottsboro trials influenced her to write the book and inform the readers of To Kill A Mockingbird. The Jim Crow laws is one of the things that Harper Lee shows in To Kill A Mockingbird. The Jim Crow laws were a set of laws restricting blacks from doing many things that whites were able to do. It caused many problems and fights in the South. The intent of the Jim Crow laws were to separate blacks and whites more than what

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