Jim Crow laws

Thus, the law must protect both the owner and the slave from any peril. The laws were also designed to replace the social controls of slavery that were removed from the Emancipation Proclamation and to keep African Americans in poverty. (2) Unfortunately, along with what was listed above, it was meant to assure that White supremacy was still enforced. These laws also came with some legal rights: in court their testimony was not taken…

African Americans at disproptatianly large numbers. According to Bill Quigley, a Law Professor at Loyola University the biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white…

railroad car and was imprisoned on the bases that he was a black man, who was violating the law since he was called himself black but sitting in the white railroad car. He was light skinned and could pass for a white man since he considered himself…

blacks” (p. 69 The Great Draft Riots Susan Hayes). Just because the blacks were legally free did not mean they were still treated as free people. Many in the North and the South treated blacks like property and not like humans. An example are the Jim Crow Laws which separated blacks from whites in certain places. Blacks being freed and becoming citizens affected the United States in good and bad ways such as preparing US citizens for the fair treatment of all humans and the continued racist…

Gun violence is a major global issue. In modern day, a gun is the first instinct when one feels endangered in an environment. Instead of reporting to the police of suspicious activity, people take the matter into their own hands which result in many innocent people losing their lives even when sometimes they were not initially the target. The people who have possession of these weapons are abusing their power to conduct malevolent activities such as killing, stealing, etc. According to National…

On October 7th, 2016, Netflix released an original documentary called 13TH, produced by Ava DuVernay. The documentary provides a historical account of the U.S criminal justice system following the end of the Civil War, and continuing to the present. The documentary could not have come out at a better time, as the country is currently in the midst of a national discussion of police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement. The excellence of 13TH is evident in its position as the opening film…

The Civil Rights Movement was a movement that helped give African Americans equal rights such as voting, integration, and equal opportunity in jobs. It lasted for a century, but it peaked in the 1950’s and 60’s with events such as Plessy v. Ferguson, integration of Central High School, “I Have a Dream” speech, etc. The most significant events in moving civil rights forward for African Americans was Montgomery Bus Boycott, bombing of Birmingham Church, and Selma marches. Although these events…

Douglass wrote many books about slavery in hopes to open the eyes of reality on what inhumane. Even the president Abraham Lincoln has seen this the worst times in history, “proclamation freed slaves only in the confederacy…in 1865, abolition became law when the 13th amendment abolish slavery.”(Schaefer 149). The issue that the president has led the way for African Americans for a more comfortable living that they deserved. The thirteen amendment help it stop for go since it is under the…

The 1960’s is marked as the “Era of Civil Right Movement”, but it was much more than that. It was the Era where race became a person’s face value. You could be intelligent and respectable, you were outcasted because of darker skin. As explained by dsfsdf, Blacks were viewed in the 1960s as horrible people, if someone saw a black person on TV or walking around their first impression would be what 's he or she doing here or there.” Despite how hard many African Americans worked to demolish such…

Civil rights amendments, three amendments that gave African Americans to do everything that the white people could do. Even though slavery was abolished and there were equal rights for voting and protection, after these amendments were passed all hell broke loose. In 1954 Brown vs Board of Education was a big court case about segregation. Right after Brown won the court case America was in a hell hole. Then in 1963 two speeches that were about segregation will never be forgotten. Staring with…