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of these rich, white men have a fear that if they truly let people different than them be equal and peaceful, they will become more successful than the white men. This belief has been going on forever, for example , the Plessy V. Ferguson case (Bagwell, Plessy V. Ferguson). White men have always tried to use their privileges to rise to the top while also keeping minority groups down through systematic racism as well as institutionalized racism. Understanding that the American Dream means almost

everything about them. Not only was this an issue in earlier times, but the present as well. The battle to overcome inequity was made significantly more troublesome in the Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896. One of the most historic cases in Supreme Court history is the Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896. Plessy v. Ferguson was a trial that ruled segregation as legal, as long as separate, equal facilities were provided for both races. After the Reconstruction era had dispersed, the Jim Crow laws appeared

different cases regarding school segregation. “While the facts of each case are different, the main issue in each was the constitutionality of state-sponsored segregation in public schools ("HISTORY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION") .” Plessy vs Ferguson was a case in which it stated a precedent. In 1892 an African American named Homer Plessy did not give up his seat to a white man("HISTORY OF

Cleopatra Dunlap 2B NAACP NAACP has been a Catalyst for change for over one hundred years. Founded in 1909 the NAACP is the largest oldest civil rights organization founded by a group of white liberals sign the calling African Americans like; W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell Taking a huge part and making a great impact in today’s society. Through, education, transportation, housing

African Americans still were treated as lesser than, and often the whites would make it impossible for the colored to advance out of the poverty they were in. Still heavily segregated, abused, and mistreated, Supreme Court cases, such as Plessy vs Ferguson (1896), took place in hopes of social equality. Despite the efforts, the former slaves would never see social equality in their lifetime. In fact, still to this day, racial discrimination can be seen in some parts of the United States. Between the

The American Civil War was a clouded era where, by comparison to modern norms, judgement was ill evolved; during the American Civil War era, slavery was still acceptable in certain parts of the country. However, it was nevertheless a cultural turning point in the history of our nation. Our nation has not always been the cultural mixing pot it is now. To arrive to modernity, there are many factors that we ought to take into consideration so we can be knowledgeable about how we got to where we are

1. Openness is the ability to see different perspectives and see where they’re coming from. The ability to hold two conflicting thoughts in the one’s head required a degree of openness and is not as easy as it seems. Everyone has their own set of morals based of their own life experiences. In the textbook (pg. 22-24), it discusses the moral dilemma of Afghan Goat herders who discovered U.S. Soldiers on their land. The soldiers captured them and were faced with two options; kill them (one including

The Effect of Jim Crow Laws on the American South Soon after the Civil War, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution abolished slavery, granted citizenship, and provided equal protection to formerly enslaved people. However, most southern states figured out ways to avoid these new laws and continued to deny the social and political rights of African Americans. Laws were passed and other measures were enforced by white southerners to produce a society separated by race. Specifically

In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander maps out the parallels between the old Jim Crow system and the new racial caste system of mass incarceration. There are many profound similarities between these two systems, such as historical parallels, closing the courthouse doors, and racial segregation. There are many historical parallels between Jim Crow laws and mass incarceration. Both of these systems were made “due to a desire among white elites to exploit the resentments, vulnerabilities, and racial

During the 1960s, in Jacksonville, Mississippi, the movie “The Help” depicts a time when racial segregation was culturally acceptable and blacks were viewed as an inferior race. The focus of the movie is the life of the “colored help”, the details of their everyday work environment, and the impact on their white employer’s lives. The help is represented as community of black women, who work as maids ultimately raising the children of their upper class white employers. The irony of this is the same