...Of Mice & Men exemplifies how being different caused segregation in the 1930’s. Lennie’s cognitive disability caused him to be discriminated against, just like those of color. I chose to do a diary entry so that I could really challenge and put myself in the position of those that were discriminated against for being different. I feel in our time that is 2015, we are also facing discrimination and racism with the recent police brutality. Therefore, I felt the need to do segregation in the 1930’s. With a diary entry, I could not only take emotions and experiences that I have faced for being different and discriminated against, but also those that faced prejudice in the 1930’s, to tie it all together into a diary entry from the 1930’s. My purpose...
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...Amid the 1920's racism was boundless and was practically inevitable as Blacks always got threatened not only by individuals but rather the recently rising group called the Ku Klux Klan. Individuals of various religious foundations were also being abused by these groups. Segregation happened amid the 1930s when the white and black individuals were isolated inside their group in view of their skin tone. Segregation means the separation of people due to race or color in a community. Racism is loathed or prejudice of another race or different races. Even though there was a decrease of such associations as the Ku Klux Klan discrimination was as solid as ever in the Southern states there were no laws to secure against racist or loathe groups that...
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...The novel To Kill a Mockingbird and the Scottsboro trials both took place during the 1930’s. There was a lot of segregation. Segregation is the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. Blacks were treated much worse than whites. Punishments to black people were much worse than for white people. The court case in To Kill a Mockingbird and in the Scottsboro Case, both took place in Alabama. In segregation was involved in Alabama. In To Kill a Mockingbird, there was a black man named Tom. Tom was a very reliable worker/ man whose arm got caught in a cotton gin when he was younger. All of the muscles were torn and his whole left arm was 10 inches smaller than his right. He was accused...
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...'How does Steinbeck present the importance of friendship to convey important ideas about America in the 1930's'? Steinbeck presents friendship as an important theme in the novel by embedding qualities in the characters personalities and their ways of life. This helps the reader to realise the theme of companionship in 1930's American society. Isolation and loneliness are recurring themes in the novel, and is a central issue for some characters. Curley's wife and Crooks especially are examples of attitudes in the 1930's towards women and black people. This helps the reader to identify that America in the 1930's was a very lonely and discriminative place. Curley's wife is an example of a lonely character seeking companionship in the novel. This also gives us an insight to women's status in the hierarchical structure in society, because she is so neglected of friendship. Steinbeck presents friendship as a luxury, which is desired by many characters in the novel. 'Think I don't like to talk to somebody ever' once in a while?' Is an example of the neglect that Curley's wife feels, and how it affects her confidence. Friendship is hard for her to achieve because she is a woman, and the ranch 'ain't no place for a girl'. This demonstrates her lack of interaction with the other male characters. Another character who demonstrates the importance of friendship in the novel is Crooks. He is discriminated against because her is black. This automatically reduces him to the bottom of the...
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...Is Atticus Finch a great man or is he just respected because of his race? Many great traits makeup his personality, and well being. Atticus is courageous, caring, and stubborn. Atticus Finch stands up for an African American man in the 1930’s. The 1930’s were a time when some people were treated unfairly because of their skin color. Atticus Finch is courageous because he represented an African American in the time of racism and segregation. Atticus defended Tom Robinson for the rape of Mayella Ewell which was dangerous because he risked his career and the safety of him and his family. Atticus was one of the towns favorites before he defended Tom. After he defended Tom, many white people were furious with him, though blacks praised him...
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...Segregation, laws, and peoples “places” were a very big deal back when the Jim Crow Laws were in place. In the south there were very racist people. Whites ruled and they were powerful and above all others. Whites had to use violence at times to show their place and to stay in control. Segregation was a huge part in the south, during this period in time. These topics connect to Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird because blacks were degraded and stripped of their own being. They were viewed to be less than human beings compared to the whites. The racism in the south was very harsh and very cruel. Whites would call blacks by “niggers” and all kinds of other harshful, nasty names. After the Jim Crow Laws were passed, stores that used to sell to blacks could not any longer. There was a gang called the KKK gang. They would dress in all white and have ceremonies about and contributing to racism. If you were to be accused of something and you were black there would be a lynch mob that would walk around town just to kill you. In the novel a scene takes place where Scout is getting bullied because her father is defending a black in one of his cases. These bullies are calling her father a “nigger lover” (Harper Lee 99). In the novel Scout came...
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...Modern Urban World Torrence The differences Whites and Blacks, as well as their comparisons, are portrayed through two different movies of two different eras of American history. Remember the Titans centers around an integrated high school football team in Virginia in the 1970’s. The team has to figure out how to bond together as one in order to overcome racial adversity of the south in the 1970’s. The Great Debaters takes place in Texas during the Great Depression of the 1930’s. Three black college students on a debate team, along with their coach Professor Tolson, travel the road debating more and more prestigious colleges, while developing as young educated black men (and women) in the racist 1930’s south. Character development is both films plays a vital role. In Remember the Titans, the relationship formed between Gary and Julius, and Boone and Yost symbolizes the White/Black differences coming together and actually forming stronger friendships then that of two of the same races. There were also the supporting roles of characters that helped integrate the football team such as Louie, Rev, and Blue who were the very first players who were able to set color aside as it has nothing to do with neither football nor the quality of a man. In The Great Debaters, the growth of Henry Lowe and the relationship between James Farmer Jr. and his father are crucial to watch. Henry Lowe starts off as a misguided young man who responds to conflicts with walking away and surrounds...
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...The 1930’s was a period of transformation in the political, legal, and social status of African Americans in the United States. Despite dramatic developments, many economic and demographic characteristics of African Americans at the end of the 1930’s were not that different from what they had been in the previous decades. It was for difficult for Blacks to make a living during the Great Depression. Living conditions were unreal and most people lived in extreme poverty. While these conditions affected all segments of society, African Americans were far worst off. Most of the country's Black population lived in rural areas and worked on farms owned by white landowners. For African-Americans, the depression was hard to distinguish when poverty was always a way of life. Living conditions became more horrendous when some landowners lost their properties during the Depression. However, there were many African-Americans who continued to make their living doing hard manual labor or working in dangerous areas such as in foundries, while others worked as domestic servants for whites. A smaller number worked for the railroads, steel mills, coal mines and school boards. There were some African-Americans who made fairly reasonable living operating small businesses. Around this time, the government began to get involved with the social statuses of African Americans. At the start of the decade and throughout most of his first term, neither President Franklin Roosevelt nor the Congress paid...
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...Fashion of the 1930’s In the 1930’s fashion was at its peak. The fashion showed the elegance and beauty of the United States during a time of depression. During the 1930’s, fashion began to have a ready to wear mentality. The United States was just beginning the Great Depression and trying to adjust to a life with very little. The American people had to find cheaper ways and places to buy and manufacture clothes, especially after the stock market crashed (Dudbrige). Most of the inspiration for the fashion came from films which impacted the culture (Lewis). Most of the designers that designed for these films were located outside of the country where the bulk of the fashion industry was located (Lewis). In the 1930’s, fashion impacted the country...
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...When looking into health disparities of health between minority and non-minority groups the most obvious place would be to look at the person but there is a case to be made that it stems from social policies that were implement in past generations that has perpetuated the cycle of health disparities (Smith, 2003). Through the extraverted practices discussed in the documentary there was obvious discrimination when it came to purchasing a home in the 1930’s and 1940’s during the start of the housing boom where more individuals were owning homes than ever (Smith, 2003). The there has been a trickle down effect from this lack of home ownership, due to the aforementioned discrimination, by minorities in America that has led to lack of accessible public facilities for physical activity and recreation (Gordon, Nelson, Page, & Popkin, 2006)....
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... the novels develops the students vocabulary and, it denounces segregation, racism, and prejudice. The novel teaches a student various good values, such as to take a stand for what you believe in, or that true bravery is when you start something and see it through even if you knew from the start you wouldn’t succeed. The story is filled with important messages to learn and understand. High school students who are mature enough to understand this classic novel will benefit from the knowledge they gain. Students who take the time in carefully reading the entire will learn new vocabulary. The people in the 1930’s used a greater vocabulary than the people in a present day. Even the way the characters speak is very different than now. They used to speak more respectfully to adults, and even the younger kids used a larger vocabulary. If this book was replaced in the curriculum, it would deprive the students of gaining new insight on their language and how to speak. Most importantly, this story portrays how segregation, racism, and prejudice are for the ignorant and uneducated. Even though this book was written in the 1960’s, while people were fighting for equal rights, it still showed us how wrong the people were at handling issues regarding same rights for whites and African-Americans. Throughout the novel, the main characters are fighting for fairness in the courts, as at least a start to end segregation altogether. The book shows us how much this issue was fought over...
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...On May 17, 1954, in the case of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, the U.S. Supreme Court ended federally sanctioned racial segregation in the public schools by ruling unanimously that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." A groundbreaking case, Brown not only overturned the precedent of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which had declared "separate but equal facilities" constitutional, but also provided the legal foundation of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Although widely perceived as a revolutionary decision, Brown was in fact the culmination of changes both in the Court and in the strategies of the Civil Rights Movement. (see case summaries below) The Supreme Court had become more liberal in the years since it decided Plessy, largely due to appointments by Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Though still all-white, the Court had issued decisions in the 1930s and 1940s that rendered racial separation illegal in certain situations. Now consolidated under the name Brown v. Board of Education, the five cases came before the Supreme Court in December, 1952. The lead attorney on the case, Thurgood Marshall, and his colleagues wrote that states had no valid reason to impose segregation, that racial separation — no matter how equal the facilities — caused psychological damage to black children, and that "restrictions or distinctions based upon race or color" violated the equal protection clause of...
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...To Kill a Mockingbird and the southern gothic genre In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, the author Harper Lee utilizes the genre of southern gothic. The southern gothic genre is the best choice for the story that author Harper Lee wanted to tell. The reason why is because this genre allows the story to have an eerie mood fitting with the narrator, Scout who is a child and sees certain places or people as uncomfortably creepy or as jarring. It also allows the issue of unjust racism in the most inappropriate places, in this novel, it is a court of law which should be the most just and fair place, but is not. This story takes place in the early 1930’s and follows Scout Finch when her father, Atticus begins to defend a black man accused of rape. This man's name is Tom Robinson and this case shows Scout and her brother Jem how atrocious the racist ways of thinking happen and how they affect people in their lives. Southern gothic is a genre of writing found only in American Literature. It...
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...A timelss Classic When we think about what life is like today and how people are treated equally , the thought of discriminating against a person because their skin is a different color seems morally wrong. Well in 1930’s this was pretty much the normality in day to day life. To kill Mocking bird shows what is was like to live in a time when people were treated terribly because of the color of their skin. This novel also reflects the time at which it was written because in the 1960’s racism against African Americans was still a big problem. To Kill a Mocking bird is a timeless classic because it teaches readers what it was like to live in 1930’s and issues of racism, it relates to the time period it was written in , and it also still relates to issues that are present today. During the 1930’s racism was a very big issue in the south. African Americans were treated extremely un- fair and had little civil rights. They were persecuted and discriminated against because of the color of their skin and no other reason but that. Racist Americans seemed to really think that African Americans were less important and less human then white people because there skin was brown. “Despite the decline of organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, racism was as strong as ever, especially in the Southern states” (Allen). To me this shows that the racist white American was ignorant and honestly stupid to think that a person was less important and less human because their skin...
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...Segregation : The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. Segregation has existed throughout the centuries. In some cases laws were instated to make sure that one group was separated from everyone else. Segregation usually took place because one group looked different, worshiped differently or had a different background. This was commonly used to suppress, demote and dehumanize that group. One example of laws passed to segregate were the laws instituted in some states in the 1880s that lasted into the 1960s. These laws were called the Jim Crow laws after a popular character in a minstrel show. A minstrel show was a performance with song and dance, performed by white actors with black painted faces. These laws were made to separate black people from everyone else. They prohibited them from going into the same stores, going to the same schools and even drinking from the same water fountain. These laws seriously demoted the position of african americans in the american society. They separated the wight facilities from the “colored” facilities. These were by no means equally good. The “colored” facilities were in a very bad state because african...
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