Jim Crow Laws

For a long time, African Americans were forced into slavery and dehumanized by Caucasian for their appearance. When slavery was abolished in 1865 that didn’t stop people from separating and discriminating against Africans. Africans still couldn’t vote and were unfairly treated by people One of the many ways people discriminated against African Americans was by…

Stereotypes are characteristics imposed upon groups of people because of their race, nationality, sexual orientation and other attributes (Nittle, 2018). Generalizations such as these do not allow for diversity within groups and may result in the stigmatization and discrimination of said groups if the stereotypes linked to them are largely negative (Nittle, 2018). Unfortunately in…

“It shall be unlawful for a Negro and white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards.” This law by the state of Alabama was just one of the many ridiculous laws of the early 1900‘s These particular laws, separating races and discriminating against blacks, became…

The southern United States in the Jim Crow era was a tragic time for African Americans still living there. Even more tragic was that mind set followed the persons, who lived through it, everywhere they went. Growing up in that environment made the individual think they were less in their fates than their adjacent white…

After the Civil War, African American women had thought they were going to live a life of freedom with the same benefits as their white counterparts. However, the newly freed African American women in the south had didn’t have too much money, barely had education and racism impacted every one of their lives. The change…

When I think of the word “democracy”, a couple different concepts come to my mind immediately. ‘Community’, ‘participation’, and ‘republic’ are the three of them, and what binds all of them together is the idea of people. We as individuals, as groups, and as a society have a duty to make sure democracy survives. Without…

Woodward’s use of the phrase, “magical formula of white supremacy,” refers to how African Americans would constantly be used for the benefit of white people. It was less about white people actually being racist to black people, but more about political gain. The ‘magical formula of white supremacy’ is something that happened after the failed…

Its a dependable fact that the African American people group is ceaselessly being exploited by police and arrangements that have been set up, since our nation’s establishment. Despite the fact that servitude was annulled after the common war, bondage keeps on existing through our country’s restorative offices. African Americans have been smothered using the twofold…

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire by Karl Jacoby is about a successful entrepreneur named William Ellis who lived an extraordinary life. Born into slavery as William Ellis in Victoria, Texas, he later decided to begin his new life as a Mexican named Guillermo Enrique Eliseo to…

The evacuation of non local kids is a giant part in the all-inclusive community field today. Zero tolerance policy limits families found shamefully crossing the periphery. Shown amidst the Bush Administration and it made beginning there. It was utilized by Trump Administration as an impediment and still is apparently. The comprehensive network related with it…