Essays on Jim Crow laws Page 2

This is Sociology Childish Gambino’s subtle background brought not so subtle light to issues otherwise not spoken about by artist today. The video, “This is America” made in 2018, mentioned issues from the early 1900s that are living in the shadows till this day. People do not want to speak of these issues because of…

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…

“Native Son” was written by an African-American named Richard Wright. This book was published in the year 1940. Bringing to light hardships that African Americans faced in Chicago during the 1930’s. This book is based upon a young, poor black man’s life named Bigger Thomas. Who is living in a shaggy apartment with his family…

The 13th amendment abolished slavery and considered it to be a crime if practiced. This amendment failed to abolish racial segregation, though In 1864 when the 13th amendment was passed, many other laws came to be. These being the “Black Codes” or Jim Crow laws that mean; separate but equal. “Separate but equal” really does…

Worse than Slavery In reading Worse than Slavery by David M. Oshinsky, the book provided me with a new perspective on the past and how it is important in recognizing how far society has come in the fight for equality and justice. The title alone was shocking because to most people the worst thing is…

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…

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 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)…

Disney’s 2009 animated film The Princess and the Frog, is a story about an African American woman named Tiana who lives in New Orleans during the 1920’s. Tiana is a strong, independent, and beautiful woman who is determined to make her and her father’s dream of opening a restaurant a reality, but becomes distracted when…