How Did Jim Crow Laws Impact Society

Peaceful or violent resistance? If one day you found a discriminating law you have to do something to change. To do that you have different types the violent and the nonviolent one. One type of peaceful resistance is the civil disobedience.

Several philosophers have wrestled with ideas to decide under what conditions that humans are morally permitted to disobey the law. Civil disobedience is a concept that both Socrates and Martin Luther King Jr. strongly believed in, but they did not have the same viewpoints on it. Socrates dismissed any form of civil disobedience that got a person into conflict with the State, and Martin Luther King concluded that there were times when a man needed to partake in a protest that was non violent and take disobedient acts in in order to defend his freedom. Socrates believed that if a person lives in a government where he was given the chance to argue his case, he should not practice civil disobedience. Socrates thought that if a person was given

Civil disobedience makes a statement. It is a tool that can be used to make a difference. Peaceful resistance to unjust laws helps a free society by allowing people to be heard without violence. Anyone can attack brutally, either verbally or physically, to get attention. But the best way to be noticed is to, “create such a crisis and establish such a creative tension...that it can no longer be ignored,” as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in his letter from a Birmingham jail.

Civil disobedience is the basis of modern-day laws and equality. The government is, ideally, supposed to work like a well-oiled machine. The different branches of government balance each other out in terms of power, and each branch is supposed to work efficiently. Even so, there are different problems that are encountered when trying to reach the end goal, to serve the people.

The Jim Crow laws, first appearing after the Civil War and continually enforced throughout the early- to mid-20th century, were laws that gave legitimate legal basis to segregation and discrimination against African-Americans (“Jim Crow Laws”). They crippled and dehumanised black people by severely restricting their rights, freedoms, and opportunities, both legally and socially. These laws firmly separated blacks and whites, discouraging mobility or interaction between the groups and their respective socioeconomic classes. Source Two shows a vending machine in 1955 Tennessee, labelled “WHITE CUSTOMERS Only”. It also shows two water fountains in 1958 Mississippi; the cleaner, higher-quality fountain for “WHITE” and the rustier, simpler fountain

In modern society, it is the government’s duty to protect the people’s rights and represent their interests by creating laws. The people elect representatives to vouch for their interests and pass laws that reflect their beliefs. However, some laws or governmental actions can still be unjust and the most effective way to bring attention to the issue is through civil disobedience. Resisting unfair laws brings attention to the problem and causes meaningful changes which originate from the people themselves. Peaceful resistance to laws makes a positive impact on society because it spreads awareness about important messages and energizes dynamic movements.

When slavery was abolished, Jim Crow laws were put into effect to keep African Americans and Whites separated. During these times black slaves were to receive 4 acres of land and a mule from the slave owner to repay them for the incarceration as slaves. Due to the split labor market, blacks had a harder time retaining their jobs, and the jobs that were approved for blacks were low paying. Despite the these societal disadvantages against the African American people, some slaves like my great, great, great grandfather, Wesley A. Settles who built the first school in Edgefield, SC where he taught African American children how to read and write, were able to rise and prosper. With his rise and prosperity, he became a victim of racism.

Out of all the texts i analyzed in this unit so far, my favorite would have to be the Jim Crow Laws. I personally liked this one more due to the chaos and absurdity of the laws. I took an interest in it and i was most entertained while writing the prompt and while reading about it. The source i used was Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Laws PBS, it was very informative and the visuals of the website gave me a better understanding of what it was like in the past.

The Jim Crow Laws were brought up to Congress in February 22, 1908. Crow Laws were trying to make spate cars and spate the two classes. The Jim Crow laws were also trying to grant “Colored people the right to vote”. The Jim Crow Laws were made fun of by the Jury and got denied brutally. This Article really put me in prospective of how poorly the African American people were treated back in the day.

"Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth"- Rosa Parks. Jim crow was a set of formal codes put into place to separate white people from colored people. These set of codes started after the end of slavery in the civil war it was a period of time that is called the reconstruction period the Jim Crow laws first started in 1877 and ended in the 1950’s with the civil rights movements. This essay about Jim Crow Laws will mainly be talking about three main points the origins of Jim Crow, what it was like to live in Jim Crow south and the different events it caused, and how it ended and the effects it still

A Moral Justification of Civil Disobedience Democracy is the cornerstone of American society and was founded on the belief that each individual ought to have a say in the way they are governed. In the early 1960’s, many inequities in the system existed that inhibited justice in light of the law. Consequently, one’s political voice may not have been heard in the conventional manners of voting and petitioning elected officials. Through unconventional means, King writes, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” a passionate letter that responds to the criticism of clergymen and appeals to people, both white and black, to encourage solidarity among all. Hence, I will explain the nature and purpose of civil disobedience as it relates to the injustices of

Civil Disobedience is as controversial and varied as the other major governmental arguments of the day such as gay rights, gun control, and the like. It has the potential of being an instrument of both god and evil, and defining the line that separates the two can be difficult. Civil disobedience has it's roots away back in Greece. According to science.jrank.org, "The idea that there is a law that transcends the laws of the state is found in Socrates (c. 470–399 B.C.E.)" but there were others who had this philosophy. Mohandas Gandhi, arguably the most famous implementer of civil disobedience, and possibly the most successful deeply believed similarly.

What would a free society be like without peaceful resistance to laws? Would it be better or worse? The question itself is paradoxical; because it is based on the hypothetical negation of an analytic proposition, it makes no more sense than asking what polygons would be like without sides. Polygons, by definition, have sides, just as free society, by definition, has civil disobedience. As Adlai Stevenson explains it, “a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”