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    Old Jim Crow VS New Jim Crow The Jim Crow laws were racial laws mostly against blacks; they promoted racial discrimination. Laws like colored sat in the back of vehicles‚ colored had a different water fountain‚ and colored people could not vote‚ or live in certain areas. The Jim Crow laws were more than laws‚ they were a way of life for some whites. It was a way of life that saw blacks as inferior beings. Even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were passed‚ did it really help rid our nation of prejudice

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    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Film Review Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was an amazing adventurous thriller movie. This movie not only was successful‚ but also embraced by many previous Indiana Jones fans. The movie plot was about Indiana Jones “Henry Jones” and his adventurous friends gaining hold of the crystal skull that was discovered by a group of soviet soldiers and their leader Irina Spalko. Earlier‚ the skull was discovered by an old friend of Jones

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    Marketing Strategy Distribution Channel Jones Soda will prepare the shipment and send it to the port of Seattle. They will then ship it to the Beverage experts in South Africa. The product will be finished already and the Beverage Experts only need to get the product to the retailers specified. Beverage Experts Unit 31 Dirk Smit Industrial 14 Jakaranda St‚ Hennopspark‚ Centurion Tshwane‚ South Africa 0154 Telephone No: +27 12 653 2569 (Beverage Experts) Spar Mid-Sized Supermarket

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    The Jim Crow Laws

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    Jim Crow Laws Between 1877 and the mid 1960s‚ the Jim Crow laws‚ enacted by many U.S. states after the reconstruction period‚ kept blacks and whites separate. Jim Crow laws were not just laws‚ they were a way of life. These laws are a horrific reminder of the racial barriers and segregation that oppressed an entire population. These laws were first established in the South. They then spread widely throughout the United States. The Jim Crow laws were legislation that banned blacks and whites from

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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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    with charcoal paste or burnt cork and danced a ridiculous jig while singing the lyrics to the song‚ "Jump Jim Crow." Rice created this character after seeing (while traveling in the South) a crippled‚ elderly black man (or some say a young black boy) dancing and singing a song ending with these chorus words: "Weel about and turn about and do jis so‚ Eb’ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow." Civil War. Segregation and disfranchisement laws were often supported‚ moreover‚ by brutal acts

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    The Jim Crow Laws

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     Jim Crow Laws The name for the Jim Crow Laws comes from a character in a Minstrel Show. The Minstrel Show was one of the first forms of American entertainment‚ which started in 1843. They were performed by successors of black song and dance routine actors. The first Minstrel Show was started by a group of four men from Virginia‚ who all painted their faces black and performed a small song and dance skit in a small theater in New York City. Thomas Dartmouth Rice‚ a white

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    The Neew Jim Crow

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    Trebor Adams The New Jim Crow In the book “The new Jim Crow” author Michelle Alexander goes in great about a race-related social‚ political‚ and legal phenomena‚ which is mass incarceration. Mass incarceration is the new form of Jim Crow laws because of its effects are not only similar but in its new form more effective. Mass Incarceration causes racial segregation‚ racial discrimination‚ and hinders the advancement of a people through “a tightly networked system of laws‚ policies‚ customs

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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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    The Jim Crow Era

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    throughout society. The Jim Crow era was characterized by legalized segregation‚ lynch mobs‚ and white supremacy which caused a dark oppressive period of American race relations from 1890 to 1910 (Campbell). The period which the states of Confederacy were controlled by the federal government and social legislation which granted African Americans new rights consisted of a time frame called the Reconstruction period. The Reconstruction period resulted as one of the main causes of why the Jim Crow era began

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