Oxford, NC, 1970, this town changed and there was no going back. At this time in Oxford, integration had started to happen in towns close by and now people wanted Oxford to change as other towns had. This was a hard time for the whites because they were use to blacks doing all their word and looking down on them, that now blacks and white were supposed to be treated equal. While the surrounding towns where integrating the people in Oxford were still discriminating. In “Blood Done Sign My Name”, people get to understand the real story of the events that happened in Oxford around 1970. Between 1970 and 2014 there have still been problems about discriminating against different types of religions, races, gender and other categories. One of the events that came to mind is the Arizona proposed bill 1062, which would build in significant new religious care-outs in state anti-discrimination laws.
In the book “Blood Done Sign My Name”, Timothy B. Tyson talks about the different events, these events took place when he was small but he was able to research others that had been in Oxford, which experienced these events. Some of the events that Tim thought were important to include into his book that were about discrimination with the integration of blacks and whites into one school, a white lady that got Mr. Tyson fired at his church because he was black, employers hiring and an all-white jury when talking about a murder that took place in Oxford. We can relate all of these events to story that we still hear today. Especially the Arizona’s 1062 bill, that talks about the religious rights and beliefs. This bill will provide legal protection to business owners who refuse service to gays.
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...in a lifetime. Some of the differences in these two are one talked about the two different races and the other talks about how two types of people want live their lives. Either way people are going to want something different than they already have.
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The Fourteenth Amendment was adopted on July 9, 1868. That, by no means meant the end of the struggle, it was only the beginning. In Little Rock, Arkansas at the time that Brown v Board of Education passed, black and white relationships were under the Jim Crow laws. All public facilities were segregated and clearly not equal. The Jim Crow Laws were the basis of everyday interactions between black and white people in the south. Melba Beals and the other “Little Rock Nine” braving the walk towards the doors of Central High School and several others landmark events spearhead the demise of these laws.
For 75 years following reconstruction the United States made little advancement towards racial equality. Many parts of the nation enacted Jim Crowe laws making separation of the races not just a matter of practice but a matter of law. The laws were implemented with the explicit purpose of keeping black American’s from being able to enjoy the rights and freedoms their white counterparts took for granted. Despite the efforts of so many nameless forgotten heroes, the fate of African Americans seemed to be in the hands of a racist society bent on keeping them down; however that all began to change following World War II. Thousands of African American men returned from Europe with a renewed purpose and determined to break the proverbial chains segregation had keep them in since the end of the American Civil War. With a piece of Civil Rights legislation in 1957, the federal government took its first step towards breaking the bonds that had held too many citizens down for far too long. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was a watered down version of the law initially proposed but what has been perceived as a small step towards correcting the mistakes of the past was actually a giant leap forward for a nation still stuck in the muck of racial division. What some historians have dismissed as an insignificant and weak act was perhaps the most important law passed during the nation’s civil rights movement, because it was the first and that cannot be underestimated.
Few things have impacted the United States throughout its history like the fight for racial equality. It has caused divisions between the American people, and many name it as the root of the Civil War. This issue also sparked the Civil Rights Movement, leading to advancements towards true equality among all Americans. When speaking of racial inequality and America’s struggle against it, people forget some of the key turning points in it’s history. Some of the more obvious ones are the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in the North, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s march on Washington D.C. in 1963. However, people fail to recount a prominent legal matter that paved the way for further strides towards equality.
Does the name Jim Crow ring a bell? Neither singer nor actor, but actually the name for the Separate but Equal (Jim Crow) Laws of the 1900s. Separate but Equal Laws stated that businesses and public places had to have separate, but equal, facilities for minorities and Caucasian people. Unfortunately, they usually had different levels of maintenance or quality. Lasting hatred from the civil war, and anger towards minorities because they took jobs in the north probably set the foundation for these laws, but it has become difficult to prove. In this essay, I will explain how the Separate but Equal Laws of twentieth century America crippled minorities of that time period forever.
Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, segregation in the United States was commonly practiced in many of the Southern and Border States. This segregation while supposed to be separate but equal, was hardly that. Blacks in the South were discriminated against repeatedly while laws did nothing to protect their individual rights. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ridded the nation of this legal segregation and cleared a path towards equality and integration. The passage of this Act, while forever altering the relationship between blacks and whites, remains as one of history’s greatest political battles.
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