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    For instance, a law in Georgia was, “ The Board of Control shall see that proper and distinct apartments are arranged for said patients so that in no case shall Negroes and white persons be together.” Yet, this law was not apparaent in the state of Alabama. Jim Crowe laws differed by state and had no real guideline for which laws had to be enforced or not. According to Gale Encyclopedia, Jim Crow Laws were overall designed to ensure that people of color and

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    The Jim Crow Laws was a law that was made, proposing that there was going to be segregation between African Americans and white people. This law took place in the southern United States, and included African Americans and Southern whites from the 1877 to the 1950’s. I believe that the main cause of the Jim Crow Laws was because many southern white people didn’t think African Americans deserved equal rights as them. According to the cause of the conflict, I don't believe that this conflict could have

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    Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws endorsed between 1870 to the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was the name of the racial standing which operated mostly in southern and border states. Jim Crow was a way of life that consisted of an inflexible anti-black laws. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were demoted to the rank of second class citizens. Jim Crow represented the sanction of anti-black racism. Jim Crow laws affected every area of the African American life. In the eye of the law, Blacks were receiving

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    “Separate but equal”. This term was used in great quantities when being referred to the Jim Crow Laws that took place from the 1880s to 1960s ( “Jim Crow”). These laws restricted the African American community from many basic rights, including the right to vote. After the Civil War ended in 1865, the reconstruction era began. As a part of the reconstruction era, congress passed the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment. These amendments gave African Americans the right to be American citizens and also

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    Jim crow was a presenter of an anti black racism. He created laws that separated blacks from whites. Some people hated him and some thought that it was a good idea to have these laws. We saw the Jim Crow Laws in TKAM when in one neighborhood and blacks lived in another neighborhood away from whites. The Jim Crow Laws created separation between whites and blacks. Some whites hated it because they couldn't have them as slaves. And some whites liked it because they didn't want to be around blacks and

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    The Jim Crow laws were a combination of state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the conservative Southern United States, from 1877 to 1965. These racially-fueled laws caused a vast decrease in personal freedom for African-Americans. The African Americans got their first taste of freedom after the Reconstruction period as the South sought to remind African-Americans of their “place” in society. The Jim Crow laws also ushered in the era of the “separate but equal” status for African-Americans

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    AAS201 Oct 1, 2017 Jim Crow Laws Provided by Omi and Winant, their texts give insight to our understanding of what is a racial project. A racial project explains how “[racial dynamics] are simultaneously an interpretation, representation, and explanation” (Omi et. al 54). Racial projects offer insight how race is linked to both structure and representation by the ideology that is primarily evident by everyday practices whether it be found institutionally or individually. The Jim Crow Laws are a prominent

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    The Jim Crow laws were pretty black and white. Legalized throughout twenty-six states (Tischauser), segregation mandated separate schools, transportation, and public facilities—such as water fountains, restrooms, and playgrounds—from 1881-1964 (Hansan). However, due to the frequent bias of the period, black treatment had often been inferior to the supremacy of whites; whites “had all the power, wealth, and privilege” while blacks “faced seemingly endless incidents of terror and humiliation with hardly

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    Jim Crow is a term that came to be a derogatory epithet for African Americans. It is unknown who Jim Crow was or where the name came from but in the 1930s an actor named Thomas Dartmouth Rice would do a minstrel routine called “Jumping Jim Crow”. He wore blackface and mocked a crippled Black man that reinforced the idea that Blacks were inferior to whites. People liked this term and eventually used it as a designation for the laws that segregated Blacks (Wilkerson 41). Jim Crow became to be a racial

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    The laws of Jim Crow had interfered with black people having the same rights as someone who was white. For people like Clyde Ross and his family, everyday was a struggle for equality and life. More hangings and lynchings of people of color happened more in 1920s Mississippi than in any other state during that time. Black people could find no place where they could be safe from the unjust law that faced them each and every day. Especially when senators were proud members of the Ku Klux Klan.

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