is that of the Jim Crow Laws. The Jim Crow Laws were laws that prevented black people from being treated equally to Whites. The Jim Crow Laws mostly operated in southern and border states‚ from 1877 to the mid-1960’s (Pilgrim). White people in these states believed that they needed these laws‚ because Blacks were inferior to Whites in every way (Pilgrim). They also believed that “integration would mongrelize the White race” (Pilgrim). One punishment for not obeying these wrongful laws was that the
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race is still very much alive in our society. Instead of a formalized institution such as slavery or Jim Crow‚ America has found a new way to continue the marginalization of blacks by using the criminal justice system. In Michelle Alexander’s book “ The New Jim Crow”‚ she shows how America’s “ War on Drugs “ has become a tool of racial segregation and how the discretionary enforcement of drug laws has resulted in an overwhelmingly negative affect on its black population. In the early days of colonial
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The New Jim Crow The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness‚ by Michelle Alexander‚ is a book about the discrimination of African Americans in today ’s society. One of Alexander ’s main points is the War on Drugs and how young African American males are targeted and arrested due to racial profiling. Racial profiling‚ discrimination‚ and segregation is not as popular as it used to be during the Civil War‚ however‚ Michelle Alexander digs deeper‚ revealing the truth about
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Victor Ferreira The New Jim Crow Chapter 2 Incarceration rates in the United States have exploded due to the convictions for drug offenses. Today there are half a million in prison or jail due to a drug offense‚ while in 1980 there were only 41‚100. They have tripled since 1980. The war on drugs has contributed the most to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color‚ most of them African-Americans. The drug war is aimed to catch the big-time dealers‚ but the majority of the people
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The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Revised Edition M I C H E L L E A L E X A N D E R © 20 I 0‚ 201 2 by Michelle Alexander All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form‚ without written permission from the publisher. Request for permission to reproduce selections from this book should be mailed to: Permissions Department‚ The New Press. 38 Greene Street‚ New York‚ NY 10013. Published in the United States by The New Press‚ New
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Looking back into To KIll A Mockingbird; However In the case of tom robinson’s rape case‚ even though he was innocent‚ boiled down the point was that he was guilty due to racism. In the south the racist group the Ku Klux Klan or the KKK provided a big effect on people’s racial aspect of African Americans during that time. In conclusion It would make people think that the white race is the best and blacks should not be aloud to have rights or be treated equally. America experienced great economic
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this goal. Yes‚ slavery was legally abolished but it started right back up again in other forms. First there was sharecropping. Than Confederate soldiers took office. That only made matters worse. Then after they took office they managed to pass Jim Crow laws and Black Codes. The South definitely won the Civil War. The Civil War ended in December 1865‚ and the slaves were free. They hoped to be treated as equal citizens who could vote‚ gain an education and live peacefully and equally with the whites
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which was on the campus of St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh‚ North Carolina‚ all the way to their final years in which they lived in New York. During their lives‚ the Delany sisters lived during the Harlem Renaissance‚ had to go through the Jim Crow laws‚ and lived to be apart of the civil rights movement. These sisters were lucky enough to learn how to read and write when they were children and later able to attend college. Bessie went on to become a well-know dentist in the community of Harlem
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CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OF 1964 1 The Civil Rights movement results from the African American Civil Rights movement completely transformed the lives of African Americans and helped to integrate public schools‚ places and help them get their natural rights back. From the earliest of time‚ white people enslaved and frowned upon African Americans. In the southern states‚ African Americans were not allowed to even associate with whites. This is what we call segregation. African Americans were
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(citation) These laws were passed to prevent the former slaves from exercising any political power. In many of the Southern states‚ the black population was either even with or outnumbered the white population. These laws were set in motion to protect the status quo of power in the Southern states. These policies initiated in Mississippi were adapted by many of the other Southern states. (citation) Plessey v. Ferguson (1896) Plessy was an African American in 1892 who defied the state laws of Louisiana
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