Best Work in Social Stuties

Black Boy and Jim Crow Essay Reflection

• Standard : 5 Students construct and test hypotheses; collect, evaluate, and employ information from multiple primary and secondary sources; and apply it in oral and written presentations.

• Assignment Name: Black Boy and Jim Crow Essay

• Objective: Wrote about the racism issues that African American people had during the Jim Crow Laws period and how they had to leave the South because of the discrimination and exploitation that they got from these laws.

In this assignment, Black Boy and Jim Crow Essay, I wrote about the racist issues that African American people experienced during the Jim Crow Law era, and how they had to leave the South because of the discrimination and exploitation that they got from these laws. The standard I met was number 5: “Students construct and test hypotheses; collect, evaluate, and employ information from multiple primary and secondary sources; and apply it in oral and written presentations.”

I used a Jim Crow Table which helped me organize my information and research, my resources were http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.htm, http://www.nps.gov/malu/ocuments/jim_crow_laws.htm, and the text book. The table had three main questions: “The origins of Jim Crow?”, “Describe 3 Jim Crow Laws in your own words”, and “Other Method of Discrimination” such as lynching and no higher education, I answered three questions and helped myself with information by searching for different timing, setting, and facts. My research was about the racism African Americans endured and what Jim Crow Laws required, for example: The segregated schools, black people could not attend schools for white people, and they were limited in education, the education that white people gained at that time was much higher than black people’s education. With this information I was able to write an essay about the cruelty that occurred against African Americans caused by the Jim Crow Laws and other horrible events that occurred after the Civil War in 1860’s to the Civil Rights in 1950’s.

• Writing this essay was a really good experience, I learned so much about the unfair situations that African Americans had to go through for the racism problems originated by white people, for example the stereotypes, in Black Boy the news paper that Richard was selling said, “The only dream of a nigger is to be a president and to sleep with white women! Americans, do we want this in our fair land? Organize and save white womanhood!” (pg.131).This stereotype shows the way white people at the time did not care about what black people thought, they just stereotyped them they way they wanted, this leaded to the way whites treated blacks. So blacks became what whites thought they were, not what they could be. I feel proud this piece because I learned much more than what I thought I was going to. I could improve this work by looking for pictures of the events and complementing my work with images so the reader could have a better picture of the work done. It could also be improved by revising my grammar and having a stronger writing, and finally by adding more information and details of the different events that occurred against African Americans.