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    30 years after slavery had ended‚ African Americans had lived a harsh life. Many looked for a way out of the South. They began to migrate to the west and north in the 1890’s. This was known as The Great Migration.     African Americans were segregated by the Jim Crow laws. Their lives were controlled at all times by these laws. The Jim Crow laws made African Americans as second class citizens.     Lynching became a big way to enforce Jim Crow laws. The lynchings were advertised. Groups of people

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    How the Jim Crow laws affected blacks Why did whites make blacks feel like second class citizens with Jim Crow laws? Jim Crow laws were racist prejudice laws.The Jim Crow laws made it harder for whites and blacks to create any type of unity.The Jim Crow laws were made in 1877-1954 and were in place for only one thing to separate blacks and white. Schools had to be separated as well as water fountain’s‚ jobs and hospital. This means that it was one race who wanted power over the other race.The laws

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    crops were the African Americans but were freed. However‚ here is where the Jim Crow laws came in by charging African American for minor crimes and imprisoning them to continue their slave work legally but in jail. What Jim Crows laws of segregation where that the African American were put in a second-class status. Signs of where white and colored were put out throughout town legally letting the color people where they were allowed to step in. Many people violated the segregation laws leading to the

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    Jim Crow Laws Jim Crow Laws began after the Civil War ended and African-Americans were given their rights and freedoms. These laws were only enforced in the southern states where people owned slaves to keep African-Americans from gaining any type of success. They began after the Civil War and were not ended until the 1960’s. In the Jim Crow law days it was illegal for a black man to touch a white women or it would be considered rape. In To Kill a Mockingbird Tom Robinson is convicted of raping Mayella

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    didn’t just involve one law‚ but multiple laws and amendments. These laws and supreme court rulings helped desegregate public places. There are laws that gave African Americans a chance to have more freedom. That freedom could have been a definite right to vote or being able to go to whatever school they wanted to go to‚ but there were laws that didn’t always help them. Those laws that went against it or found a way around the Civil Rights act of 1866. There have been laws‚ acts‚ and amendments to

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    Notion 3 : Seats and forms of power (African Americans) The Declaration of independence and the Jim crow laws : An american paradox Today I’m going to talk about the notion Seats and Forms of power and my issue is "Is the declaration of independence and the jim crow laws an american paradox?"To begin with I guess it would be appropriate to explain how the notion is related to the issue and in order to do that i’ll have to go back in the 19th when Lincoln abolished slavery(1863)

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    Science The Laws That Knew Color: Racism Then and Now Are we free or are we limited‚ men of color often wondered in the late 1860s. Twenty years earlier they were given rights to vote and have all equal opportunities as the white men. Then they were struck with laws that stood in the way of allowing them act as freemen. Those laws were called “Jim Crowlaws‚ and they were designed to stop desegregation amongst black and white men. There are many stories to tell about them‚ and how they degraded

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    From Wikipedia: Jim Crow laws were designed to prevent blacks from voting in the old south.  Voting laws were only 1 type of Jim Crow Law. In general‚ Jim Crow Laws mandated the "Separate But Equal" status of blacks in the south. The laws ensured segregation‚ but not equality.  The reason they prevented blacks from voting was so that the Democrats could keep the power. Because if the blacks could vote‚ they would vote for the Republicans  Jim crow laws were laws that enforced segregation. Its

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    What Was Jim Crow? Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily‚ but not exclusively in southern and border states between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-Black laws. It was a way of life. Under Jim CrowAfrican Americans were relegated to the status of second class citizens. Jim Crow represented the legitimization of anti-Black racism. Many Christian ministers and theologians taught that Whites were the Chosen people‚ Blacks

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    Introduction Jim Crow laws are about power. Power of one race over another. These laws really highlight the flaws and weakness of human nature. One group of people asserting power over another for the pride and vanity of a system of politics that had been defeated at the cost of thousands of American lives during the civil war. The term "Jim Crow" has its origins of interest also. The interpretation was intended to ridicule the African American by white American’s in the position of

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