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Jim Crow Laws In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Jim Crow Laws can be a method of discriminating people of different races, and these laws influenced many people in the United States. Through the influence of the Jim Crow Laws large groups of people were segregated by skin color, and the segregation was enforced by many terrible kinds of behavior, such as murder, lynching, and other forms of violence. The discrimination historically, culturally, geographically, and socially impacted every person, from childhood, throughout large parts of the 19th and 20th centuries; it was illustrated in a novel by Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird. Jim Crow Laws had imposed a racial segregation between White Americans and African-Americans, and was predominantly in the Southern United States. The …show more content…

This Jim Crow etiquette was in parallel with the previous principles of the Black Codes, which was in consequences with the civil rights and civil liberties of black community. Firstly, according to the Jim Crow Laws, they implants the principles of the racial segregation in every public facilities and transportation, and blacks were always inferior to those for whites; "Whites Only" and "Colored" were a signs to reminders the separation of races. Take the case of Florida, who was a part of this constitutions, that implant the segregation in public schools, public places, and public transportation; blacks people were always inferior to whites people. Apparently, in contrast with the Southern, the Northern segregation was typically a segregation of housing applied by private covenants, the practices of bank lending, and job discrimination. Afterwards, they attempts to break Jim Crow Laws, for example with The Civil Rights Act of 1875, demanded that everyone will have the same treatment, without the differentiate by of race, or color. In 1887, the Georgia Railroad company has been complaint for discrimination by Rev. W. H. Heard with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Finally, the Jim Crow Laws was ended in 1964 by the President Johnson with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In brief, the Jim Crow Laws was a law consists of a racial …show more content…

The first Klan was founded in the Southern United States in 1866, and suppressed in 1871 by the federal law; members made their own costumes for terrifying the population and to be hiding under the masks. The second Klan was the most notorious of the three Klan with four million members, furthermore in some states, considerable as the political power. It was inspired from the first Klan, and was founded in the South in 1915. This second Klan have almost the same practice from the first klan, in addition of cross burning and mass parades to intimidate others. The revival of the KKK was the third and current Klan appeared after World War II. They are in opposition with the Civil Rights Movement, and are inspired by the Jim Crow Laws. The KKK is called as an “Invisible Empire of the South”, and considered as a “hate group”. They have a political ideologies such as white supremacy, white nationalism, anti-immigration, and recently Catholicism. Moreover to achieve their ideologies, they terrorized African-Americans, also has attacked Jews and Muslim people, immigrants, and people who have a relationship between a same gender using often violence (physical assault) and murder in the American society. In fact of oppressing the

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