Jim Crow Essay by XiMuoi
Jessica Hoang 3/27/2015 4A Jim Crow Essay Did you know there are currently more slaves today than at any time in history? Well there are and what do you think about when you hear the word slavery? I think of African Americans. I’ve been hearing things about how they were enslaved, how badly they’ve been treated, and how they were discriminated about since elementary school. Discrimination is a treatment of making a distinction in favor or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category and Jim Crow is the act of discrimination. African Americans did many things like sit-ins, demonstrations, and protests to influence people to stop discriminating and many were killed but many succeeded. It was individuals, groups and public opinion that ultimately led to federal legislation that outlawed discrimination because an excerpt from “He Had a Dream” by Coretta King, the “Segregation At All Cause” video, and MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail proves to