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Jim Crow Era

            One of the great challenges in America has been in race relations.
             created a plague of sorts on American history. The Civil War put an end to slavery but .
             many other race issues were not addressed. It took the efforts of African American .
             leaders like W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington to make the strides needed to .
             bring true equality between the races. There efforts were not in vain. The sacrifices .
             that came with their leadership led to our present day society of equal opportunity. .
             Booker T. Washington believed in improving race relations little by little. He .
             understood that his passionate hope for an equal society was a process that took time. .
             .
             He believed that only those who were extreme would try to bring change by force. His cause was what he referred to as a "struggle". He was a patient man who was willing to compromise with the white culture of his time. .
             Woodward makes the point in The Strange Career of Jim Crow that Washington was "humble" in his approach. I slightly disagree with Woodward, because Washington was only trying to earn the respect and make some positive impressions with the white southerners. His approach was that of a wise politician. He may have had to say things that the white leaders wanted to hear in order to be heard at all.
             Washington believed that the South provided economic opportunities for his people. .
             He urged all African Americans to work hard and that they would eventually benefit from .
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             their hard work on the job. He refers to this as "self help" for his people. .
             He also promoted his race in a positive way to the white culture. He says in Booker T. Washington Advocates Self-Help that his people have not had labor strikes and have done a good job and worked hard for there bosses. He goes on to say that his people are also a people with good character holding good virtues like faith, hard-work, and respect for the law.


Essays Related to Jim Crow Era

1. Jim Crow System

Young, a black male whose account was recorded in "Remembering Jim Crow." ... The threat of physical pain, public humiliation, and death held Jim Crow system firmly in place. ... Young black soldiers home from Europe found Jim Crow Laws especially grueling. ... Efforts to disassemble the structure of Jim Crow Laws also began on a national level. ... Although the Jim Crow South lays dead and buried, this era is only a few decades in our past. ...

  • Word Count: 932
  • Approx Pages: 4

2. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration

My grandparents were young adults during his era, and from the stories they've told me from when I was kid, racism and segregation was always prevalent. ... On page 42 of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration, it states that segregationists developed a racially sanitized rhetoric of "cracking down on crime" and it is a method still upheld by politicians today in order to keep a basis on social control. ... On page 42 it suggests, "To prevent the formal dismantling of the Jim Crow system, it proved highly effective in appealing to poor and working-class whites, particularly i...

  • Word Count: 565
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

3. The Cruel Hand by Michelle Alexander

Alexander does a great job of using emotional appeal to demonstrate how ex-criminals are ushered into a new form of underclass akin to those of black citizens during the Jim Crow era. ... While the realities ex-criminals face after paying their debt to society are not color based, they are just as harsh as those faced by blacks post slavery, Alexander therefore correctly likens the struggles of these ex-criminals to those of free slaves during the Jim Crow era. Through the use of strong evidence and language Alexander begins to immediately demonstrate how both the government and the judicial...

  • Word Count: 683
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

4. The New Jim Crow

Similarly, in The New Jim Crow, Alexander examined the racial differences during the period in American history often titled as the war on drugs. ... The New Jim Crow and The Jail, both tell a similar story of severe hardships forced upon the black man.  ... According to The New Jim Crow, the racial caste system began before America was even a nation. ... At this time, many of the federal civil rights legislations were passed and America went into the Reconstruction Era. ... After slavery, the Jim Crow Laws were next in creating a caste system in America. ...

  • Word Count: 6384
  • Approx Pages: 26

5. Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness

Suddenly, the black man was rushed back to square one with the advent of Jim Crow. ... Today, in the so-called era of colorblindness, in the era of Obama, a new caste system has emerged in the form of mass incarceration. People find it no surprise that the Jim Crow system arose after slavery. ... The fact that many African-Americans have success stories does not signify that a caste system does not exist even during the Old Jim Crow. ... Jim Crow was regarded as the final settlement, a "return to sanity". ...

  • Word Count: 4144
  • Approx Pages: 17
  • Has Bibliography

6. Romanticizing Uncle Tom's Cabin

The term Jim Crow "originated in 1830 when a White minstrel show performer, Thomas "Daddy" Rice, blackened his face with burnt cork and danced a jig while singing the lyrics to the song, Jump Jim Crow". ... Jim Crow isn't the only racially stereotypical character that is portrayed in the film. ... ", in total there are eight recurring racial black stereotypes: Jim Crow, Zip Coon, Mammy, Uncle Tom, Buck, Wench/Jezebel, Mulatto, and Pickaninny. As previously mentioned, Harry appears as the Jim Crow character literally and figuratively, but also as "the mulatto", as ...

  • Word Count: 1397
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

7. Black Representation

He paved the way for the Jim Crow character first introduced by T.D. ... The Sambo and Jim Crow projected an image of benign slavery and perpetuated ideas of the happy slave, much like the Mammy. With distinguishing characteristics of simplicity and irresponsibility the Sambo and Jim Crow became a potent force in the politics of slavery as they ingeminated the natural inferiority of the black man. ... The docile Sambo and Jim Crow were representations that let the American public believe that slavery could not have been that heinous and atrocious if the slaves themselves did not dissent. ...

  • Word Count: 1938
  • Approx Pages: 8
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

8. Brown vs. Board of Education

Of course, imitators arouse everywhere, and the popular sing and dance was named Jim Crow. ... In an effort to restore white supremacy, the Jim Crow laws came into play. ... These high court rulings led to a profusion of Jim Crow laws. ... era. ... This was the first major blow against the Jim Crow system that would soon lead to it's complete downfall. ...

  • Word Count: 1045
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

9. Equality, Unity and the Reconstruction Period

To ensure blacks would stay inferior, whites adopted the Jim Crow laws. ... The de jure section of the Jim Crow laws would stop many African Americans from executing their given right. ... Although not a complete success, the reconstruction era paved many new roads towards equality and unity. Through reconstruction amendments blacks were equal by name but with Jim Crow laws, sharecropping, and other discriminatory practices African Americans would not be fully free until decades later....

  • Word Count: 545
  • Approx Pages: 2

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