Essay of Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow Laws were a group of state and local laws enacted between 1876 and 1965. The laws were about the racial segregation in all public facilities. The mane phrase of those laws was "Separated but equal". That laws, affected a lot the life the Americans of those years, for example: the white children(more cases on southern states of United States of America) were though in schools that the black people were different and inferior than them and the whites had the priority for a job and the Africans Americans didn't had that priority etc. All that acts were influencing little the thoughts of white American people, making them react against segregation of African-Americans.
The chosen law of Jim Crow Laws is the one that is about Intermarriage, enacted in the American state of Mississippi. The Law says: "The marriage of a white person with a negro or mulatto or person who shall have one-eight or more of Negro blood, shall be unlawful and avoid". My reaction to that law is that is(like the other Laws of Jim Crow) stupid and without sense, because each person have to choose who is going to marry with. And not to be forced to do things that a person doesn't want to do.

Jessie Daniels Ames

The chosen person's name is Jessie Daniels Ames. She was born in 1883 in Texas. She was Texas suffragist and civil-rights activist who fought against lynching in the South. Ames founded the Texas League of Women Voters. She recruited white Southern women to go out into the community and persuade law enforcement officials to sign a pledge that they would do everything in their power to protect their prisoners from being lynched. Jessie Daniels Ames was a very good woman who wanted to improve the life of the less fortunate people.

Rosewood, Florida

The racial turmoil chosen is the one occurred in Rosewood, Florida in 1922. In that small village were burnt down many African Americans. During the winter of 1922: the murder of a white schoolteacher in nearby Perry, led to the murder of three blacks, and a sexually assaulted of a black guy to a white girl, made the KKK angry. The Ku Klux Klan rallied in Gainesville on New Year's Eve. Then they burnt almost the entire village, excepting nine people, for the act of four. The things that happened in Rosewood were hideous, innocent people were killed without a motive. This event made open the eyes of a lot of white people of the atrocities that were being occurred.