This paper will give a review of the book titled The Strange Career of Jim Crow. This book was written by a well known historian named C. Vann Woodward. Woodward was born in 1908 in a small town in Arkansas named Vanndale. After doing his undergraduate at Emory College, Woodward went on to take graduate school at Columbia University and get his P.H.D. from the University of North Carolina. Woodward died at the age of 91 in December of 1999. He is most known for The Strange Career of Jim Crow which was published in 1955. One of the books main focus is showing how the Jim Crow laws and segregation was a result of social and political events which took place in earlier years, and that is was not a natural result from southern traditions or mores. Starting in the 1880's and not ending until 1954, the Jim Crow laws made segration between blacks and whites legal. Everything from publics parks, to schools and hospitals were separated by race. Going against the belief that the Jim Crow laws was solely a result of southern white racism, in The Strange Career of Jim Crow, the author argues how there were many components involved in not only the emergence of the Jim Crow laws but also the acceptance of them. He also argues how these components grew over a period time and therefore the system of segregation didn't fully evolve until years after the Civil War.
Woodward explains how northerners who were once in support of equality began to have a change of heart once imperialism started to play a role in the American society. Imperialism, as defined by the American Heritage ® Dictionary, is the policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations. With America becoming extremely powerful by imperialism, a sense of superiority started to arise in many Americans, including those of the north. This was extremely unfortunate for African Americans considering that the northerners, with most of the power and influence, were usually on the left wing in support of the Blacks.
Woodward makes the point in The Strange Career of Jim Crow that Washington was "humble" in his approach. ... In The Strange Career of Jim Crow, Dubois writes how some slaves were treated with "intimacy and affection ". ... He also fought for the rights of African American women for who he claims only have 3 career options: "domestic service, sewing, or married life." ...
Although many think of his literary career as short-lived, Ralph Ellison definitely left his mark on the world of literature and in my opinion had the most immense impact on the art itself. ... (Microsoft Encarta) Wright encouraged Ellison to pursue a literary career and served as his mentor. ... From 1943 until 1945, Ralph served as a Merchant Marine as a sea cook because he wanted "to contribute to the war, but not be in a Jim Crow army."" ... During his career, he lectured at many colleges and universities on the subject of the black American. ... The mood of the story is strange, dre...
Knowledge, Your Anti Propaganda Currently, drugs remain high on the lists of concerns of Americans and are considered one of the major problems facing our country today. We see stories on the news about people being killed on the street every day over drugs. To many people drugs are only an inner-city problem, but in reality they affect all of us - users and non-users. I believe that the negative affects we associate with drugs would be greatly reduced if the United States adopted a policy towards the total decriminalization of marijuana. The current drug policy of our government is obviou...
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