Jim Crow Era's Impact On African Americans

1. What impact did the Jim Crow era have on Africa Americans achieving equal opportunities in the American Society?

This Jim Crow law affected so many aspects of American society for achieving equal opportunities. These impacts were jobs, education, and land ownership for African Americans that held their own freedom and their own power as well. According to “Slavery by Another Name”, most Southern African Americans were no longer slaves, but they were free at the end of Civil War (See Black See Power). African Americans gained their own independence in America. They also got great job experiences and worked so hard as coal miners, teachers, farmers, and so on. White Americans and African Americans usually accepted the 13th and 14th amendments as long as they followed the United States of Constitution. Any color of people were considered equally intelligent in American society because they were good with educations, life skills, sports, jobs, and hobbies. African Americans started growing their own new families, their own lands, and their own job markets, so they easily focused on their own views. This Jim Crow’s document would secure the

As the 14th amendment states, anybody who is born in the United States of America obtained U.S. citizens’ certifications as well. In the 15th amendment, African Americans were granted the right to vote. White Americans forced African Americans into the coal mines. During the modern era, the concept of affirmative action was purposed by President Roosevelt (“Civil Rights 101 - Affirmative Action”). African Americans protected their own defense under associating the civil rights of accommodations. This debate fought a discrimination with the doctrine of “separate but equal” (Gale). It explains how the Jim Crow impacted of the debate on affirmative