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Right now, click on “Jim Crow in America, 1870 – 1976.” (Yes, you read that right: Jim Crow laws were still active in 1976! In living memory!). Read the Intro section for a great overview: In a Nutshell and Why Should I Care? Both of these should get you thinking about the unit question: What should we do about discrimination and prejudice in America?
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And then go back to US History and click on “The Civil Rights Movement: The Struggle for Integration.” There’s lots more here for you to read and view. Check out the links at the top of the page for People, Statistics, Videos, Photos, and more.
Check it out. Your assignment? Write your response to this question in the comments: What section (in the readings, videos, or photos) told you something that most surprised you? Include where you found it (include the URL). The “deeper” you go into the site (the more clicks) the better. This is due by January 22, two days after the Inauguaration Day of the 44th President of the United States, Barak Obama.
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I thought this was a little over board, even sharing drinking containers was bad? Segregating containers.
I also belive this is pretty shocking,
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i was there about three years ago and it was just a bunch of tourist. But i would have knever thought this is where a march took place. I thought it was just another pretty area.
over all i belive the most shocking was little rock’s nine.
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& how they went through so much just to go to a high school where they’d probably feel most uncompterable anyways. If i were them id probably not even want to go to that high school. Id rather go to the lower budget schooling that they were allowed&accepted color wise/people wise.
I thought that the picture where an African American is driking out of a water fountain is preety shocking. Its funny because when you hear of things like this that happended during the Jim Crow system you just say wow or thats really messed up. But when you look at a real person actually doing it or like that picture i saw, it really does capture you. Well at least it did to me. Also, another thing that surprised me was the scortion of Little Rock. That story is pretty shocking.
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What most suprised me was this picture of the Ku Klux Klan marching. By looking at the picture it made me feel alittle worried because how serious their faces looked and their determination in segregation. They dont want any other race to be equal with them and thats scary to know. Imagine them seeing you and your a different race than them, the tension you would feel between you them would be very high. http://www.shmoop.com/pictures/index/history/hist00046/kkk03.html
The most shocking story that I read about was ” the little rock 9 ” and related to Jim Crow System. It really surprised me that how much the Whites were segregating the Blacks. They seperated all the the living environment, buses, restrooms, water fountains, and even schools where a person educate, learn, and finds out his/her future. I feel sad when the White students and the school security guards didn’t let the blacks who were already enrolled to school and stood up to kill them and it was sad when no one clapped for graduation of Ernest Brown. Then the school closed after one year. I have no idea when did it start again, but it was really surprising story.
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I was really surprised to find out that it wasn’t only Rosa Parks that made this change happen. I always thought that it was just her and i was surprised and now i know that other people helped make this change like the Little Rock 9 and Brown vs. Board. All of these people made a contribution to stop segregation. So I was mostly surprised to find out that other people helped stop segregation and that it wasn’t just Rosa Parks.
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what most suprised was the story of the little rock nine. it is amazing what they all had to go to just to attend a high school. the picture with the 101st airborne escorting them just shows the danger that they were in trying to get to central high. the mobs of white people didnt want anything to do with the little rock nine. especially go to school with them. i couldn’t ever imagine living in those times and being a black male. i think that they had the hardest lives to live.
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The picture of the crowds surrounding around the reflecting pool in Washington in 1963. I cannot believe that thousands of people would march and stand around for civil rights but I understand that they were getting mistreated and they did believe in intregrating, and they did something about it. That’s what you have to do if rules are not fair. Im proud of them for standing up in what they believed in. http://www.shmoop.com/intro/history/us/civil-rights-movement-struggle-for-integration.html
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i was surprised to see how far the segregation went in some of the states. i find it unbelieveable that they would have a seperate bible for whites and blacks in the courtroom. I could see how some of the white people may think if they were raised to believe that blacks are “inferior” but after a while it must come to an end. Things like this just show the ignorence of America during the jim crow era. I also thought it was strange that interracial marriage was illegal, that should be the choice of the two people not the government.
I did find the story about how the name jim crow era came to be. its strange how things like that can have that much resilience.
what really amazed me was that in 1940 9.8% of the US population was black. We had so many african-american’s and we were prejudice and had all these segregration laws even know they made up almost 10 percent of your population.
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Another thing was blacks served as soilders in King William’s War in 1869-1897. We used them but didnt give them rights? hmmm… that sounds like something isnt right.
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I think this is the craziest because I saw his face after they lynched him to before they did and it was horrible(I looked it up on google). The most shocking thing about it was that they came out not guilty. The supreme court tried to say that he was “unable to identify.” His mother would know out of anyone if it was her child or not. I’m glad they put it in that magazine it made people a bit more aware of how bad doing things like lynching was. The women who ran whining to her husband deserves to be lynched herself. Things like that happen all the time now and people don’t die for it. They should have been more civilized.
Wow the thing that really suprised me was when they lynched emitt till.It was crazy how the white people saw black and how they didnt care if they took a young blacks persons life.Why would they make a big deal he didnt cause no harm so why wuld they go so far and lynch him. The worst part is that they were not found guilty that shows to you how much they hated the blacks.Well im glad that emitt till made a difference in the world if it wasnt for him nobody would have saw to what extense the whites would go.
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What surprised me the most was the story about the group of people who did the sit-in at a restaurant. At first, i learned that schools were segregated. But to learn that places just to eat were segregated too, i just couldn’t believe it. I was amazed how the group of people used non-violence against the angry whites, who were harassing them. If i was being attacked, i would protect myself by hitting back. I was surprised that a large number of people, not just blacks, wanted to help or even be part of the sit-in and try to end segregation.
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The most surprising thing to me was the story of emit till. i was surprised at how they would actually kill someone just because they said “bye baby”. People are really cruel. I dont understand how they werent guilty…it confuses me, well they killed an innocent boy and they were set free. People had a small heart back then because they didnt even regret what they did in fact it seemed as if they were actually proud.
The story that really surprised me was the picture of the Washington March at Washington, D.C. because there were many rioters there that wanted to have civil rights and be more equaled to whites. This shows that blacks wanted a change and that they were annoyed of being segregated from whites and mistreated. Taking that step is what the blacks needed to do in order to making them more equal to whites if possible. I think that was best of what they just did to try to integrate with the whites and to have civil rights.
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Their are a strip of pictures here and the 9th one interests me because I cannot imagine that even a fountain drink is seperated. Very crucial thing to do how they treat Blacks like dogs. What makes White so special? They are not a prince neither a princess.
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This is a picture of the Little Rock students that wants to just get their education right and because of segregation and also the color of their skin. They don’t see that they are very unharmful people.
When I see the pictures and videos in without santuary section(www.withoutsanctuary.org/). I believe this is a extremely horrible thing to see. I saw these poor people died just because of the racial problem mostly. This make me think those people who lynch others were crazy and unjust.
These lynching pictures looks like some scenes from a horror or violent movie to me, especially those who got hung over a tree or bridge.
One of the first things that suprised me would have to be the “Hain’t No Justice” section listed here: http://www.shmoop.com/analysis/history/us/jim-crow-in-america/analytic-lenses-law.html because the situation was ridiculous and existed for the one purpose of putting blacks behind bars for an extended period of time. Something else I found to be a little outrageous would have to be the Jim Crow song that Rice went around singing. http://www.shmoop.com/analysis/history/us/jim-crow-in-america.html I found this, not so much shocking, but somewhat insulting to Rice that, even though he thought it was a great act and a great form of entertainment, these people were applauding him for singing a song about a corrupt system and I doubt one of them ever truly thought about what it meant or ever doubted the system. The last thing that concerned me was the “They and We–White and Colored” section at the bottom of this page: http://www.shmoop.com/analysis/history/us/jim-crow-in-america/analytic-lenses-race.html It concerned me because the way my generation grew up, we never had to deal with this kind of an issue so it’s difficult for me to comprehend how people could be so self-absorbed as to see their whole world as an “us vs. them” situation simply because of skin color. If Africans grew into wild beasts and attacked European settlers in America and forced them to become their slaves, I suppose the same issue would arise. Only they didn’t. So I wonder what happened.
What i was astonished by the lynching of Emmett Till. I do not understand how anybody could harm a little boy just because of a little gesture the boy mad to the lady.i also cannot believe how the two men who KILLED emmet till were found not guilty when it was clearly known to everybody that they were the murderers. Whites (not all whites) seemed to be proud of killing & harming colored people.What surprised me the most on top of everything was that this type of criminal behavior was tolerated.
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one of the most crule stories i herd was the story of Emit till. Why would they actually kill someone just because they said “bye baby”? That is mean and that is against our constution. Our government was messed up. Those people should have been guilty but our court said they were innicent. well they killed an innocent boy and they were set free. You dont hurt a boy for talking to a girl. It doesnt matter if he is black and she is white. All men are created equal. There was something wrong with the people in the south. Emit till body was beaten ugly. that was gross and something a boy should have to face. I believe what his mom did was right, she showed people what they did to his body and had an open casket funeral.
What shocked me the most was the fact that even though the emancipation proclamation was signed, African Americans were still abused and beaten. As i looked at the horrifying picture of the Klu Klux Klan torturing the poor African Americans, i began to wonder if the former slaves had truly been liberated or had they just tricked into even more agony and torture
This suprised me the most Segrated drinkes what up with that they had to go that far to segrate drinks.
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Im surprised of how much they took the beatings and just sat there like nothing happen. wave after wave of black people on that sit-in
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I was surprised, because of World War I labor demads gave a oppurtunity for well-paid positions to blacks in the north. So nearly 2 million African-Americans decided to leave the South for North. Despite the fact that they put in so much efforts to the war, the racial atmosphere remained the same. because the whites feared that they were taking over good opportunities and being competative. so between 1918 and 1927, more than 400 blacks were lynched, at least 42 of them burned alive.
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What shocked me the most is how racist whites would hang black americans for any aparent reason. They would look for any excuse to kill them. They would hang them from trees in public places and even in front of children. The most shocking thing to me was the story of Emit Til. Just because he whistled to a white woman, her husband went and killed him. The worst part is that he did not get a fair trial. That was unfair to Emit Til and his family.
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I think America in order to prevent rascism should not promote anything segrated. For example, I do not agree with all black colleges because that takes away the chance for whites and blacks to be able to interact and it is just one more way that people are kept separate. People throughout history have contributed their time for a simple reason. So people throughout America can “black and white, rich and poor, young and old– [can] stand together and work to realize [Martin Luther King Jr's dream]” (Martin Luther King Jr. the third). I honestly think that is the goal, this is what everyone is striving to achieve and this is why people have been fighting. I think in order to prevent racism in the U.S alls we have to do is what we have been trying to do for over sixty years. Blacks and African-Americans have come together in the past in order to fight to make changes in this place that we live in, this place that at times is so dysfunctional and tough to live in.
I think that when we find the right cause, the right purpose, that is when we will know it is our turn to fight. Amercan citizens should always constantly promote integration, and support change.
There is one thing that simply shocked me that I read and it came from this URL. http://www.shmoop.com/intro/history/us/jim-crow-in-america.html. It conveyed that simply blacks had to have their own water fountain and honestly that shocks me because I can not imagine that law being held effective in this day. Also, “[at the end of the ninetenth century] racial subjugation and anti-black violence underpinned every economic, legal, political, and social institution in the American South.” O(http://www.shmoop.com/intro/history/us/jim-crow-in-america.html). I can not believe how much racism controlled people in the south it is very shocking and I can not believe that people followed these laws and thought that they were ok.
I was suprised to hear if African Americans looked at a white person the wrong way they could be tortured. Even if an African American showed a little confidence they would be murdered. It’s difficult to put myself in their time period and see how bad their life was just by the color of their skin. It’s also shocking to know that the majority of white people just ignored the way they were being treated. That’s what suprised me the most.
I cant believe that even though the civil war had ended, the blacks still do not have their equal rights. In the constitution of the united states it says “All mean are created equal” From what i have seen in the videos and stories i see absolutely NO freedom what so ever for the blacks who just want to live the good life god has given them which has in the past been burned, tossed aside ect. If i were in their position i would stand up for my fellow blacks so help me god at my side. Blacks are FREEDOM RIDERS and they will live on forever!
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