Richard Wright’s autobiography, Black Boy, tells about the real life occurrences that characterized his life from childhood until adulthood. The book begins with Richard’s boyhood, which was spent mostly growing up in the South where Jim Crow laws still dominated the every day lives of blacks. These laws stipulated that segregation was mandatory in public ...
Thomas Jefferson’s views on slavery were well established when he signed the declaration of independence. However, there is much debate over his actual beliefs because he owned nearly two hundred slaves who worked his plantation. The question being raised is why he didn’t free those slaves if he was so opposed to slavery. Research shows ...
Previously published in Examiner on Feb 21, 2013 It is incredible that racism still exists in America in the 21st century. According to The Globe and Mail published today, a nurse in Michigan was denied the ability to treat a newborn because she was African American. The hospital where she works granted the father’s request. ...
Although the term “Jim Crow” came from an upbeat show tune (“Jump Jim Crow”), there was nothing upbeat about the laws. Jim Crow laws deprived African Americans of privileges enjoyed by Caucasians. The laws varied from where African Americans could sit on a bus and to what drinking fountains they could use. These Jim Crow ...
Overview of the Jim Crow laws: Jim Crow laws restricted the freedom of blacks from the 1880s to the 1960s. Jim Crow laws were somewhat like black codes, which were put upon freed slaves after the civil war. Anti-African American legislation, Jim Crow laws, included discriminate laws against blacks in the south, barring them from ...
Once Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the War Between the States came to represent the fight of decent people to end the horrors of slavery. It was a move of genius on Lincoln’s part that provided a surge in Union numbers when ‘freed’ blacks enlisted, depleted labor sources in the South when ...
