Essays on Jim Crow laws

In the 17th century labor for plantations was based on indentured servitude. 1675 Bacon’s Rebellion By 1770 “By the mid-1770s, the system of bond labor had been thoroughly transformed into a racial caste system predicated on slavery. “Racial division was a consequence, not a precondition of slavery, but once it was instituted it became detached…

The poem, “Truth,” by Gwendolyn Brooks, was written in 1949, during a continuing era of black oppression in America. Brooks was born June 7, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas but her family moved to Chicago shortly after her birth, according to her biographer, Georg Kent (2). The Poetry Foundation biography of Gwendolyn Brooks says her father…

African-Americans faced many inequalities in America which made many conduct the black civil rights movement to achieve justice and equality. Racial segregation was a system the white Americans put in place to keep African Americans to a lower social status, denying them equal access to public facilities, and keeping them separate from whites. During the…

            It has been decades since the African-American community began the civil rights movement in the United States.  The movement was created to improve the lives of the black people by pushing for just and equal treatment.  Many years later, has the movement reached its goal? Can African-Americans of today exercise their civil rights? At…

The civil rights movement is associated with a span of time beginning with the 1954 Supreme court’s ruling. The decision outlawed segregation in education and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The movement draw its members from both the local groups as well as other organizations which include; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)…

They were not even considered citizens in the United States. During this period African American were slaves, working in fields and being servants for the white slave owners. During the year of 1861-1865, the union states were fighting the federate states in which the union won and slavery was later abolished. After this period, things…