Discrimination has been a very large and influential facet of human life since the beginning of history. This covers a wide range of categories, including age, social status, gender, and religion, though none of which can compare in modern times to racial discrimination. This has been a cause of much tension and has been a catalyst to many modern laws, as well as atrocities. Antisemitism in Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, Jim Crow Laws in the United States, and the use of Sharia Law in many Middle Eastern countries today are some prime examples. One group of laws set into fruition to blatantly discriminate against another race were the Apartheid Laws of South Africa. These laws came to be in 1948 and were aimed at suppressing …show more content…
In 1806, however, with the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars, the British again took the Cape in order to protect the sea route to their Asian empire” (Byrnes). Initially their plans were the same as that of the Dutch: use it as a refueling station in order to reach Asia safely. They, like the Dutch, discouraged immigration for their labor and relied heavily on their slaves, but eventually in 1807 the British government ordered an end to their slave trade in all of their settlements. In the year 1809 the first law was put into place to racially divide the budding settlement--The Hottentot Code. This limited the rights of the Hottentot (also called Khoikhoi) people by requiring them to carry a pass stating where they lived and who their employers were, and could be accessed by anyone at any time . This law was initially meant to soften the blow of the abolition of slave trade for the Boers, but the British government was not pleased by the colony’s decision. Tensions grew between the British and the Dutch-speaking Boers even more when Parliament did away with slavery in all British territories in 1833. Many Boers left their homes after this law to seek out new places to live and farm, now referred to as Trekboer, or The Great Trek …show more content…
Within the space of twenty years their advance had doubled the area of effective white occupation of South Africa, and by thrusting themselves among the Bantu the Voortrekkers had greatly increased the sub-continent's race problem. The march into the wilds was made by a few thousand men armed with muskets and Bibles, together with their women and children. It was opposed by the two most powerful military empires in southern Africa: together they constituted a far more formidable obstacle than the Red Indian nations which impeded the contemporary advance of the American frontiersmen towards the
Equality is something that should be given to every human and not earned or be taken away. However, this idea does not present itself during the 1930’s in the southern states including Alabama. African Americans faced overwhelming challenges because of the thought of race superiority. Therefore, racism in the southern states towards African Americans made their lives tough to live because of disparity and inhumane actions towards this particular group of people.
While Portuguese power declined, the British, Dutch, and French powers rose due to firmly standing footholds along the coast. In 1652, Dutch immigrants sailed to the southern tip of Africa and established Cape Town, which was the first permanent European settlement to supply ships sailing to and, from the East Indies. Boers, Dutch farmers, settled in Cape Town and believed they were superior to the native peoples; there, they ousted, enslaved, and killed the people who lived there. The migrations of the Boers “… would eventually lead to battle with several African groups” (455). By the seventeenth century, British and French presences had both reached present-day Senegal. The French established a fort in this region by 1700. After hearing stories about British explorers’ quest for the Nile River’s source, the French and British were intrigued and set off to find this source. These forts led to the continuation of European exploration during the next century in Africa.
The Jim Crow era was a racial status system used primarily in the south between the years of 1877 and the mid 1960’s. Jim Crow was a series of anti-black rules and conditions that were never right. The social conditions and legal discrimination of the Jim Crow era denied African Americans democratic rights and freedoms frequently. There were numerous ways in which African Americans were denied social and political equality under Jim Crow. Along with that, lynching occurred quite frequently, thousands being done over the era.
In 1863 to 1877 Reconstruction brought an end to slavery, it paved the way for the former slaves to become citizens. The African Americans wanted complete freedom. However, that right became a setback and were seen as second class citizens. Before the end of the Reconstruction, a legislation was passed called the Jim Crow law. The law enforced the segregation of people of African descent. The legislation was a system to ensure the exclusion of racial groups in the Southern States. For example, separate transportation law, school division, different waiting rooms both at the bus terminals and hospitals, separate accommodations, marriage law and voting rights. The Jim Crow law was supposed to help in racial segregation in the South. Instead,
In 1964, Linda Brown along with the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) challenged the Separate but Equal doctrine, and won (Askew). Discriminatory laws that lasted for 99 years, starting with the Black Codes, moving to the Louisiana Separate Car Act and Plessy v. Ferguson, to everyday laws, finally became overturned. They permanently hindered a large group of people as seen by literacy rates, household income, and household ownership, but those numbers became more equal as time went on. Unfortunately, due to humanities extreme ignorance, we don’t see these issues recurring today. People discriminate against homosexuals, for example, and they don’t get equal rights. People must look to the past and use the knowledge of their mistakes to never make those same mistakes again.
From 1877 through the 1960’s was a shameful time for American history. Most southern states had passed laws known as “Jim Crow Laws”. Jim Crow was a slang term for a black man. These laws were very anti-black, meaning they were established to ensure black Americans failed before they ever got to start. These laws also set out to make African Americans feel inferior to white Americans.
“Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. It was a way of life.” (“What was Jim Crow?”). The laws created a divided America and made the United States a cruel place for over 70 years. The Jim Crow Laws caused segregation in the education system, social segregation, and limited job opportunities for African Americans.
The oppression of the indigenous people of South Africa began with the colonization by the Dutch through the Dutch East India Company. The Cape of South Africa proved to be a perfect resting spot for ships on their way from Holland or India. (Lapping, p. 1-2) Conflict was inevitable and finally after 7 years of settlement the indigenous Khoikhoi attacked the colony. The Khoikhioi could not match the firearms of the Dutch. (Lapping, p. 3) Van Riebeek, who proceeded over the colony had now gained superiority over the indigenous people, imported slaves, and settled the freeburghers.
The laws known as “Jim Crow” were laws presented to basically establish racial apartheid in the United States. These laws were more than in effect for “for three centuries of a century beginning in the 1800s” according to a Jim Crow Law article on PBS. Many try to say these laws didn’t have that big of an effect on African American lives but in affected almost everything in their daily life from segregation of things: such as schools, parks, restrooms, libraries, bus seatings, and also restaurants. The government got away with this because of the legal theory “separate but equal” but none of the blacks establishments were to the same standards of the whites. Signs that read “Whites Only” and “Colored” were seen at places all arounds cities.
In the United States, racial discrimination has a lengthy history, dating back to the biblical period. Racial discrimination is a term used to characterize disruptive or discriminatory behaviors afflicted on a person because of his or her ethnic background. In other words, every t...
Jim Crow laws are laws which were meant to segregate whites from blacks and to prohibit blacks from obtaining the same social status as whites. Jim Crow laws were in effect for nearly a century, from around 1875 to approximately 1964. These laws were primarily used in South but were also loosely used in the North. These laws came from the post war South where racial stresses were still high. With the passing of these laws came violence and aggression for those, for and against these laws. The South was hard to change, as is the world.
“I’m tired of you [people] pushing [us] around.” Rosa Parks said this because of Jim Crow Laws in the 1960’s. What were the Jim Crow laws? The Jim Crow laws were the South’s way of avoiding blacks’ rights. Some specific ways included were by; segregation, poll taxes, literacy tests, by busses and transportation.
No one really likes to think back to the time of segregation and separation. Yet, any time Jim Crow is mentioned that what it takes us back to the time in which the laws were made and enforced. Those laws and what they symbolized is so synonymous what the 50’s that it’s hard for me to think that in this time and age that we would have something similar going on. In the article Michelle Alexander says she believes the criminal justice system of today has created a new form Jim Crow law. She says that with the war on drugs that began in the 1980’s and 1990’s we now have mass incarcerations. She says like the Jim Crow laws long such gone away, we now have the incarcerations of black people is today’s segregation and separation. She states that in the
Jim Crow laws were a group of laws that deprived African Americans and other races of basic American rights. The Jim Crow laws tried to promote the claim “Separate but equal” but ended up denying races (other than whites) of privileges that were second nature to whites. Things such As drinking from a water fountain became difficult to blacks. One example of unnecessary segregation was the law, “Conservation Commission shall have the right to make segregation of the white and colored races as to exercise the rights of fishing, boating, and bathing.” (Oklahoma SB book 199)
The first few months on the eastern border of the Cape Coloney, which had been allocated for thes settelers brought bitter disillusionment, that stood in stark contrast to their high hopes of coming to South Africa. The land given them by the British government of the Cape was unsuitable for agriculture, and their living conditions were appalling. The unnamed man who escorted the groups to their territory would always end his tour of their land by saying, “Gentlemen, when you go out to plough never leave your guns behind.” with that he would get on his horse and be off. This didn’t make sense to these settlers, but what they didn’t know was that the British government had decided to bring them hear, not to grow them in prosperity, but to use them as a buffer zone between the hostile and aggravated Xhosa tribes and the Cape Colony. Few managed to stay after the first few months in the area, and for those that did it was a difficult time. Everywhere you ...