The Pros And Cons Of Jim Crow Laws

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"We scarce ever take up a paper from the mining districts but what the eye is pained and the heart made sick with accounts of robberies and brutal murders, committed, it would seem, with almost entire impunity." Stated from greatblacksinwax.org. People with darker skin of this time were terrified to even go to work, because they didn't want to be killed or robbed. Many people of this time were mistreated or even killed and children were left without their sibling or even their parents. The crimes and mistakes of that time in this nation's history should not be forgotten. The generation of today needs to greatly understand the difficulties of this toin history a to help better their understanding the are four things the Jim Crow Laws, KKK, Please …show more content…

To make this nation sound better and to make racial tension look less daunting they made "race ethnicity" seem like just a normal race relation. When in fact it is one of the worst faults of this great nations. Jim crow laws themselves caused many traumatic and daunting effects on the race inequality of this very nation. They made it to were African Americans couldn't sit at an all white white bar in a restaurant. They made it to where even African American mothers with small children stand up if there was only one seat left for a white person. These laws were horribly unjust. Jim Crow laws were cruel and should never be repeated in history.The awful truth behind where, how, and why the Jim Crow laws were horribly created. It is odd to think that Jim Crow laws were created to keep the African Americans "In their place". In other words they were created because the south was mad they lost the war. They just honestly needed to get over it... The originated in Alabama and other southern states as well. They even went as far as to not let white nurses treat black people. They even separated …show more content…

Ferguson was one of the many stepping stones to the ending point of the worst racial tension of this nation. The case of Plessy V. Ferguson and its horrifying truth. In 1896 Plessy refused to give up his seat on a Jim Crow train this caused him to be arrested and sent in front of a judge that judge ruled against him. So he went to the supreme court to fight it. The supreme court also ruled against him. They claimed it did not go against the 13th and 14 amendments. So he lost the case and went back to jail. It was a horrible time during history and the supreme court ruled wrongly. This case impacted the lives for the African Americans in more ways then one. The Supreme court said that it wasn't right to take away the peoples' rights but they won't change the state's laws. This rubbed the people the wrong way it caused many people to finally stand up for themselves. The were even more furious when the court went on to say it was the colored race's fault. News flash last time anyone checked the supreme court is the one that is allowing the STATES to make this call on the laws and not the people...This is a very unfair and unjustified case; it should not have had the verdict it ended with. The connection of this case and the book is kinda crazy. This article connects with the book is the simple fact he lost the case even though he should have won. He was treated unfairly and got thrown back into jail. He was even probably taken away from his family too and didn't

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