Jim Crow Laws Research Paper

1. “Jim Crow” laws enforced segregation from the 1880s to the 1960s. What changed these laws?

The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation laws passed after the Reconstruction period in Southern United States, at state and local levels. These laws stood from the 1890s all the way until the 1960s in the midst of the African American Civil Rights Movement. On July 2nd 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the monumentus Civil Rights Act of 1964. This legislation officially outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It also put an end to unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, in the workplace, and general public facilities. This is exactly what African Americans …show more content…
It was significantly more progressive regarding its treatment of African Americans than the country would ever dream of being for many decades to come. Even dating back to the early 1600s, African Americans had the ability to trade, acquire land, and even take part in court cases. Slavery based on race was not even a notion in the back of anyone’s mind. However, while race-based slavery may not have been a custom, indentured servitude was. Many of these said servants were more often than not European. But when Black and European servants had to live together, they did not allow race to tarnish a chance of any sort of relationship. At this point landowners were afraid that a united servant population would eventually obstruct their power. So they started to distinguish Africans from other servants by passing laws which stripped those of African and Native American descent of their basic …show more content…
The team’s original name was the “Boston Braves”, but soon changed their name to the Redskins after having to share a stadium with the Red Sox. Ever since the change many have questioned whether or not the name was appropriate, as it is considered by many as a derogatory slang for Native Americans. Native American individuals, and organizations specifically have been questioning the use of the name and image for decades. Starting in the 1940s, when the National Congress of American Indians started a campaign to eliminate negative stereotyping of Native American people in the media. As you may be able to guess, the Redskins did not change their

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