Description of the Jim crow Law Era

The Jim Crow era started in 1887 and was much stronger in the civil rights in 1950’s. The law was in the south to segregate African Americans from white people. Jim Crow was a stage name of an actor named Thomas rice. (Wright,16). This law affect racial segregation. The United States was affected by the Jim Crow law until the civil rights movement. Richard wright’s the ethics of living Jim Crow tells bleak life that Africans Americans had in the south. The Jim Crow laws affect many African Americans lives in all aspects which were poverty, health, and wellbeing.

The methods that whites used against African American men to damage African Americans spirits were segregation, and how African Americans would live behind the rail road tracks which was the poverty stricken area. The way that wright’s describes his house was that no plants could grow on his lawn, and that he had to live. The white people would live on another side of the rail road where the plants would go. The jobs that the African Americans would get was under a white boss or a white family.

The African Americans would get jobs but under a white man’s boss. The employees that were also black, but wright did not understand his place until the other employees threaten him enough to scare him. The violence and the lynching also happed in the Jim Crow era “The lynchings, murders, beatings, the miscegenation laws designed to keep the black man and the white woman apart while the white man helped himself to black women, created in him a tremendous sense of personal urgency on this matter”( Bryant, 331) The white man did not let the African Americans be people. The African Americans were treated badly enough that the white people would hang the blacks from trees. The ...

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...Americans received. The health of an African American was awful because of how they were treated in their jobs, and in society. The wellbeing of African Americans was not good at all because of all the hate crimes and abuse that came from white people. The abuse that the African Americans endured was not only from the white people, but from their parents. The African American children had to learn how to behave, and what their place was in society in this era. The African American children did not listen then the children would have to get punish from the parents to learn what the place was. In the Jim Crow era African Americans were not treated the best. The African Americans were treated badly in the era of the Jim Crow law.

Works Cited

Bryant, Jerry the truth about lynching page 331

Wright, Richard the ethics of living Jim Crow (1938)