Jim Crow Laws - Separate Is Not Equal

Jim Crow Museum: Origins of Jim Crow Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. It was a way of life. The Jim Crow system was undergirded by the following beliefs or rationalizations: whites were superior to blacks in all important ways, including but not limited to intelligence, morality, and civilized behavior; sexual relations between blacks and whites would produce a mongrel race which would destroy America; treating blacks as equals would encourage interracial sexual unions; any activity which suggested social equality encouraged interracial sexual relations; if necessary, violence must be used to keep blacks at the bottom of the racial hierarchy. A black male could not offer his hand (to shake hands) with a white male because it implied being socially equal. Never assert or even intimate that a white person is lying. Barbers. © Dr. References

9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask The United States and allies are preparing for a possibly imminent series of limited military strikes against Syria, the first direct U.S. intervention in the two-year civil war, in retaliation for President Bashar al-Assad's suspected use of chemical weapons against civilians. If you found the above sentence kind of confusing, or aren't exactly sure why Syria is fighting a civil war, or even where Syria is located, then this is the article for you. What's happening in Syria is really important, but it can also be confusing and difficult to follow even for those of us glued to it. Here, then, are the most basic answers to your most basic questions. First, a disclaimer: Syria and its history are really complicated; this is not an exhaustive or definitive account of that entire story, just some background, written so that anyone can understand it. Read award-winning novelist Teju Cole's funny and insightful parody of this article, "9 questions about Britain you were too embarrassed to ask

The five biggest threats to human existence In the daily hubbub of current “crises” facing humanity, we forget about the many generations we hope are yet to come. Not those who will live 200 years from now, but 1,000 or 10,000 years from now. I use the word “hope” because we face risks, called existential risks, that threaten to wipe out humanity. Not everyone has ignored the long future though. But had these pioneers or futurologists not thought about humanity’s future, it would not have changed the outcome. We are in a more privileged position today. Future imperfect Yet, these risks remain understudied. If humanity becomes extinct, at the very least the loss is equivalent to the loss of all living individuals and the frustration of their goals. With that in mind, I have selected what I consider the five biggest threats to humanity’s existence. Finally, just because something is possible and potentially hazardous, doesn’t mean it is worth worrying about. 1. The Cuban Missile crisis was very close to turning nuclear. 2. 3. 4.

Examples of Jim Crow Laws "It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards." This selection is an example of a Jim Crow law that was effective in the state of Alabama from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. Jim Crow laws functioned to keep black and white people separated, particularly in social settings and social institutions such as marriage. The states and cities were allowed to punish people who went against these laws. More Jim Crow Laws These hateful laws worked to enforce segregation amongst the races, which ultimately led to civil rights actions starting in the 1950s, led by individuals such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Examples of laws that caused these extreme tensions in the country included the following: Marriage - "All marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a white person and a person of negro descent to the fourth generation inclusive, are hereby forever prohibited."

Jaltakonferensen Den 4–12 februari 1945 träffades Storbritanniens premiärminister Winston Churchill, USA:s president Franklin D Roosevelt och Sovjetunionens ledare Josef Stalin i Jalta på Krim. Under mötet diskuterade de tre allierade ledarna frågor som rörde krigsslutet och tiden därefter. Tyskland skulle tvingas att kapitulera villkorslöst.Efter kapitulationen skulle Tyskland delas in i fyra ockupationszoner: en brittisk, en fransk, en amerikansk och en sovjetisk.Den allierade ockupationspolitiken skulle skötas av en särskild kontrollkommission.Tyskland skulle demilitariseras.Det tyska folket skulle avnazifieras.Förenta Nationerna (FN) skulle bildas som en världsomfattande freds- och säkerhetsorganisation. En konfliktfråga mellan de två västliga ledarna och Stalin var Östeuropas och framför allt Polens framtid. Många länder i Östeuropa hade redan erövrats av den sovjetiska armén och ingått avtal som, på ett eller annat sätt, band dem till Sovjetunionen.

The Zombie Manifesto: Marx & The Walking Dead | SociologyFocus AMC’s award-winning zombie apocalypse drama The Walking Dead is currently in its third season of undead annihilation. The show’s protagonists are a motley crew of survivors, led by Sheriff Rick Grimes, who have beat the odds to stay alive in the Georgia wilderness. In this post, Ami Stearns pits the human group as communists employing classic Marxist tenets to avoid being eaten by the cold-blooded symbols of capitalism. “Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed…” Karl Marx, The Zombie Communist Manifesto The Face of Capitalism? That sound of a twig snapping in the forest? I’m a sociologist, so I did what sociologists do; I analyzed the zombiepocalypse sociologically. The survival tactics of Grimes’ warm-blooded group in The Walking Dead can be viewed through the lens of Marxist theory. Dig Deeper:

Jim Crow Laws - Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows). From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white clientele separated. Here is a sampling of laws from various states. Nurses: No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed. Buses: All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races. Intermarriage: It shall be unlawful for a white person to marry anyone except a white person.

SVERIGE I HISTORIEN: KALLA KRIGET - DOLDA ALLIANSER* Logga in för att se, lyssna eller boka produkten Om När man pratar om Sverige under kalla kriget brukar man säga att Sverige avr ett stolt neutralt land, som stod utanför NATO och Sovjetunionen. Ett stark land som öppet kunde kritisera andra länders agerande. Men är det verkligen hela bilden? Hamark Produktion, 2012, Från 6 år, min. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Plot Overview In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou describes her coming of age as a precocious but insecure black girl in the American South during the 1930s and subsequently in California during the 1940s. Maya’s parents divorce when she is only three years old and ship Maya and her older brother, Bailey, to live with their paternal grandmother, Annie Henderson, in rural Stamps, Arkansas. Annie, whom they call Momma, runs the only store in the black section of Stamps and becomes the central moral figure in Maya’s childhood. As young children, Maya and Bailey struggle with the pain of having been rejected and abandoned by their parents. Maya also finds herself tormented by the belief that she is an ugly child who will never measure up to genteel, white girls. Growing up in Stamps, Maya faces a deep-seated southern racism manifested in wearying daily indignities and terrifying lynch mobs. In the aftermath of these events, Maya endures the guilt and shame of having been sexually abused.

Sexdagarskriget fick hela världen att hålla andan Ibland, utan att någon förstår det förrän långt senare, länkas ett folks historia i nya banor. Ett folk blir ”något annat” än det varit. Det krigiska Paraguay blev något annat, psykologiskt sett, efter katastrofen 1870, då bara kvinnor och barn överlevde. Läs mer: ”Nederlaget tvingade oss palestinier att tänka om” Svenskarna, ett annat aggressivt litet krigarfolk, hade hållit arméer på krigsfot i sekler och härjat och plundrat i halva Europa. Men efter två krig 1814 sänkte sig en lång och obruten fred över Sverige, en fred som skulle prägla svenskarnas sinnelag och nationalkaraktär och göra dem olika alla andra, till och med sina närmaste grannar. En ännu mer halsbrytande metamorfos har dragit över Israel veckorna, åren och decennierna efter den militära segern i juni 1967. Den 6 juni 1967. En vecka senare, då kriget och skolan var över, var jag på resa i Moskva. Strängt taget hade de östtyska bladen rätt. I den israeliska historieläxan går veckorna före kriget under namnet ”Väntan”.

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with fearful trill of the things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn and he names the sky his own. But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom. © by owner.