Lee drew her influences from Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and Scottsboro trials. The first influence on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws are a racial caste system. Jim Crow are a bunch of harsh against Blacks laws (Pilgrim). The Whites did these actions because they disliked any benefit made Blacks including economic and political (Pilgrim). If the Blacks are to disobey then the punishments could be a lynching (Pilgrim). The Jim Crow laws are seen in To Kill
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The Ku Klux Klan was an immensely hateful terrorist group who wanted white supremacy. There are three time periods in American history in which the Ku Klux Klan had a strong presents, however I will only be informing you about the first two times the Klan emerged. In the late 1860s and early 70s during the reconstruction era, the 1920s to the mid 1940s after WWI and into the beginning of WWII, and in the 1950s and 60s during the civil rights movement. The first Ku Klux Klan was founded in Pulaski
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The term “Jim Crow” came from an old African American song called “Jump Jim Crow.” In 1828, a white man named Rice would wear a black face make up, sing, dance and act foolish. Many people started calling black people “Jim Crows” to offend them. Jim Crow laws took place in America and they were laws that segregated the white from blacks. These laws supported the idea that blacks were inferior to whites. Blacks and whites weren’t allowed to interact with each other. Jim Crow was the informal term
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Martin Luther king made an huge impact on the Civil rights movement by preaching and speaking to America and many others by saying his his strong beliefs. Also explained about nonviolent protest also helped set the tone of the movement. It also made an great impact on our present community. A Lot of things had great impact such as schools, jobs, and in some parts just being outside with racism. Before Martin luther King tried / did influence others, it was more worse when it came to the community
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African-Americans who lived in the United States. Some of these issues raised many different events to occur. Events such as the Jim Crow Laws, or the Separate but Equal Laws, the Plessy vs. Ferguson trial, poll taxes, literacy tests, and the Grandfather Clauses. These events impacted the United States’ history in different ways, but they mostly impacted one thing: racism. The Jim Crow Laws legalized segregation in the United States in the 1800’s and 1900’s. This in turn made it legal to discriminate against
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The Birmingham church bombing of 1963 had lasting impacts on society. From the bombing came a greater awareness of the fact that African Americans were indeed people too, and that all human beings deserve to live the best life possible. Because of those four young girls who were killed in the bombing, we stopped ignoring how bad the prejudice and hate against African Americans was, and we took action to stop it. New laws were created that helped give African Americans equal opportunities, so that
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The Great Migration was the relocation of African Americans from the South to mostly the North. From 1915 to 1918, roughly seven hundred thousand African Americans moved in hopes for a better life. There are many reasons why African Americans migrated from the South to the North in large numbers. Because of the Great Migration, African Americans experience some positive and negative realities once they move North. Moreover, the Great Migration has a drastic effect on the entire country as a whole
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From 1910 to 1930 the great migration took place. During this important time in American history millions of African Americans moved from the South to the North, Midwest, and West. They moved so that they could get away from segregation and being discriminated because of their race in the South. They also moved North so that they could get better economical and educational opportunities This event had a huge impact on life in the cities of America. It started more creative and artistic expression
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The reconstruction of the 13th and 14th and 15th amendments White people did not want blacks to stand up and participate in political or any kind of issues or freedom or become educated 1. When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in 1865, and the black people embraced education, built their own churches, reunited with their broken families and worked very hard in the sharecropping system, nothing was enough for the Reconstruction to succeed. 2. Whites never gave total freedom to African Americans
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The first social movement that I will be analyzing is voting rights. Voting rights have changed a lot throughout history and have not always been clear in the constitution. I have decided to discuss this movement because I have become much more interested in it voting rights since I am able to vote now. Voting in the United States was once only for the white men who owned property and so many citizens did not have this right. Voting did not become a reality for African Americans in the South until
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