How To Use Jim Crow Laws Connect To Famous Play A Raisin In The Sun

Although the 13th Amendment ended slavery, the 14th Amendment and 15th Amendment gave equal rights for blacks, discrimination/racism did not end. Jim Crow Laws are “practices or policies of segregating or discriminating against blacks, as in public places, public vehicles, or employment”, according to Dictionary.com. People of color were treated unequally and most of the time inhumanely. Some whites believed in the idea of “separate but equal.” How Jim Crow Laws affected people of color back then until today? How does these segregation laws connects to famous play A Raisin in the Sun? Connecting Jim Crow laws to today’s world, there are no more segregation laws but in many places like the United states segregation still exist. Segregation laws

In the text, it was stated “Mama: ...In my time we was worried about not being lynched and getting to the North if we could and how to stay alive and still have a pinch of dignity too . . . I mean that you had a home; that we kept you out of trouble till you was grown; that you don't have to ride to work on the back of nobody's streetcar-.. (pg. 523)” In this quote, Mama Lena explained back in her time, they were worried about lynching, staying alive, and getting to the North. This connects to Jim Crow Laws because during Jim Crow Era people of color were lynched because of various reasons such as trying to vote. Lynching was the most common violence during that time. Victims of lynching were either hanged, shot, burned at the stake, castrated, beaten with clubs, or dismembered. These lynching were carried out in public. Between 1882 and 1968, there were 4,730 known lynchings, including 3,440 black men and women. This is why Mama Lena stated they were worried back then about lynching and how to stay alive. Another connection in the quote was Mama Lena and Big Walter moving from the South to North, known as the Great Migration (1900-1970). In the South, Jim Crow Laws were strictly enforced that controlled blacks’ lives. While in the North, there were still segregation but not as strict in the South. Therefore, blacks migrated from South

In the text, it was stated “Beneatha: Mama, if there are two things we , as a people, have got to overcome, one is the Klu Klux Klan - and the other is Mrs. Johnson. (pg. 543)” According to Dictionary.com, Ku Klux Klan is “a secret organization in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired powers of blacks and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent proceedings.” Ku Klux Klan (KKK) were known for their violence acts. They murdered numerous blacks, some are whites, who were either active in Republican politics or educating black children. Ku Klux Klan also burned churches, houses, and schools. They wore white robes, hoods, and masks which cover their faces. People of color were frightened by this secret organization and its something they have to