what were issues and problems that many African americans endured during the jim crow era ?
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Ah! I learned about jim crows this year. They couldnt use public accomodations..everything was  "seperate but equal" which was eventually declared unconstitutional because it's not possible to be seperate and equal at the same time.
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racial problems were starting to surface in a much more serious way after Brown vs board of education. Central High, Birmingham, rosa parks, the 3 civil rights workers. On the flip side, bull connors, dogs, water hoses, resurgence of the kkk, axe handles etc. Rock and roll also contributed by energizing teens. parents then didnt like the music as much as the 60's parents didnt like the beatles.
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There were less workers in the south... also this led to controversies in the north. People thought african americans were stealing jobs from whites in the north
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There are middle class Americans of other races who are also impacted by poverty in inner city slums. Is this a race issue or a class issue?\n\nWith that said, the problem relates to everyone because we pay for it. For example, a budget cutback closed the mental health hospital a couple years ago. All the displaced people were literally put on the street with one month supply of whatever medication they were on and a "good luck." Since that time, two people in our community have killed their families. One man killed his mother and a mother killed herself and her children. Either we pay for them to get the services upfront or we pay on the other end of the equation.
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If anti-reparations advocates want contemporary proof that African Americans have been harmed by the United States government causing them irreparable damage and making them eligible for (reparations), then here it is. Reparations Central’s argument is about African American constitutional rights that were violated by white people and condoned by the U.S. government in a recent time period (1865-1968).  During the Jim Crow Era, the daily lives of African Americans were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression, discrimination, segregation in all walks of life. Especially in public facilities and institutions, where they were systematically demeaned, disenfranchised, and disempowered, condemning them to second-class citizenship.\nYes, they should receive reparations.  Even Germany gave reparations to the Holocaust survivors.  Why should there be any difference for African Americans?
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1.Africans Americans got more rights.\n2.They lost alot of money.\n3.They were able to rebuild America.\n4.For more,get out your history book.\nHope this helped you.
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I.Slavery in the Colonies\n\na. South Carolina and Georgia\naa. low country near the coast ideal for growing rice and indigo\nindigo - type of plant used in making a blue dye for cloth\nab. blacks made the majority of the population\nac. had more plantations with 100 slaves or more than any other area\nad. lack of interaction allowed slaves in GA & SC to preserve some of their culture\nGullah language – combination of English and African\nae. many came directly from Africa\naf. many had grown rice in Africa\nb. Virginia and Maryland\nba. lives of slaves in VA & MD differed from those in GA & SC in 4 ways:\n1. slaves in VA & MD were a minority of the pop.\n2. few slaves came to VA & MD directly from Africa\n3. slaves did different work\ngrowing tobacco not as labor intensive as rice or indigo\nslaves did other tasks\n4. slaves in VA & MD had more regular contact with European Americans\nbb. high cost of slaves led some planters to encourage their slaves to raise families\nbc. some male slaves in VA worked away from plantations as artisans or laborers\nc. New England and Middle Colonies\nca. by late 1700s, about 400,000 blacks lived in Southern Colonies\nonly about 50,000 in N. Eng. & Middle Colonies combined\nfarms were much smaller\ncb. most slaves lived in cities\n\n II.Free Blacks\n\na. free black pop. In Northern & Southern colonies did not grow significantly until after Revolutionary War\nb. some slave laws discourage people from freeing slaves\nba. owners had to get permission from the legislature\nc. law demanded that freed slaves leave a colony within six months of gaining freedom\nd. free blacks did much of the same kind of work as slaves but were probably worse off materially\ne. endured poor living conditions and more severe discrimination\n\nIII.Laws and Revolts\n\na. every colony passed its own slave laws\nb. settlers in Georgia were barred from owning slaves in 1735\nba. the ban was lifted in 1750\nc. Virginia passed its first major slave code in 1680\nca. SC in 1690, revised 1696, 1712, & 1740\nd. slaves could not go aboard ships or ferries or leave the town limits without a pass\ne. 1739, several dozen slaves near Charleston killed more than twenty whites in the Stono Rebellion\nea. burned an armory and started toward Spanish Florida were a small colony of runaway slaves lived\neb. Were captured and killed by armed planters\n\n\n IV.Diverse Colonial Economies\n\na. Southern Colonies\naa. economy based on growing staple crops\nab. tobacco exports Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware:\n1700, 32 mil. pounds\n1770, 83.8 mil. pounds\nac. African slaves supplied most of the labor\n1650, only about 500 Africans in Virginia (3% of  pop.)\n1700, enslaved Africans totaled 16,000 (28% of Pop.)\nad. Except for Charleston, SC & Williamsburg, VA the South had few cities\nb. Middle Colonies\nba. economy a mixture of farming and commerce\nbb. farm crops included grains such as wheat, barley, and rye\nbc. Populations of N.Y. & Pennsylvania ethnically diverse\nc. New England Colonies\nca. 1700s, N. Eng. Colonies consisted of small self-sufficient farms and towns dependent on long distance trade\ncb. shipping and fishing important industries\ntriangular trade -a series of indirect routes used to conduct trade between the colonies and England - the trade ultimately carried raw materials to England and manufactured goods to the colonies\n\n\n  V.Industrial Innovation in America\n\na. Eli Whitney\naa. developed idea of interchangeable parts\nab. invented the cotton gin\nb. the invention of the cotton gin had several effects\n1) profit of cotton skyrocketed\n~ in the early 1800s, cotton was America’s most profitable export\n2) southern planters began to depend solely on cotton\n3) planters looked for new lands to grow crops\n4) increased the demand for slavery\n\n   VI.The Economy of the South\n\na. while the northeast urbanized, the South remained rural\nb. less than 8% of white southerners lived in t
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slavery has impacted the u.s. by former slaves ancesters thinking they are still owed something today. affirmative action is the worst thing we as a country could've done and acknowledging a race which automatically singles one out from the american whole.  African American.  I don't call myself all my nationalities before american.  ex.  german, italian, irish american.  see what i mean.  then to have sepatory groups such as the naacp is bullshit.  african americans have it all going for them today but they're just to caught up in having to have the latest tommy shit (which who is as racist as the come) which shows the stupidity of race as a whole.  come on they recieve higher test scores and get reconized for acccomplishing less than the fellow american.  wake up america time to play cowboys and n........
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I gather you're also in the comedy business. Or at least in some profession that creates fantasies. There is no doubt in my mind that anti-black racism is huge problem in much of American society. You might be surprised to hear that your kind of position on it was fairly common even when there was active segregation and Jim Crow laws. Nobody seemed to be racist then either. Some just thought Martin Luther King was "moving too fast," or that "left-wing" agitators were "causing all the problems," and yet others were "sure" that blacks by and large were happy with their situation - and that "equal but separate didn't mean racism at all." \n\nI've worked for some of the most prestigious U.S. corporations, and I can guarantee you that racism is practiced in a myriad of subtle and not-so subtle ways. I have also watched as "white flight" changes the demographics (and value) of huge areas overnight. And that just covers jobs and housing.\n\nYes, progress has been made, very often against violent, even murderous resistance. But to say it's not there is self-serving wishful thinking. It's easy to point to the shrill nonsense of idiotic poverty-pimps and say, "See. They're just whiners and defenders of criminals!" etc. But when you do the research you will find the problem almost anywhere you care to look.
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Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-Black laws. Here are some websites about it: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=definition+of+jim+crow+laws&rs=0&fr2=rs-top&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t\n\nhttp://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/who.htm
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Yes, sadly, Skin Color is still an issue.  Racism and sexism is still a huge issue in America.  Think about it. How many huge-businesses can you think of... (like the Gap) that are run by women, Latinos, or African-Americans?  All racism, for all races is still there. Racism for African-Americans is very high in the South, sadly.  My advice to you is just fight against it as much as you can and be as understanding and compassionate as you can be. You may not be able to change the world, but you can change a few lives one day at time.  \nEmily
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Sounds like homework... \nProbably should do some of you own thinking here... but here are a few ideas to get started with...\n(a) What sort of state were the former Confiderate states in? Had they used their manpower and economic resources to better economies or to fight the war?  What was their infrastructure like? Were there roads, towns, etc. left after Sherman's March to the Sea?  \n(b) What was the South's economic system like? With slaves freed, how was the economy (which required lots of manual labor on large plantations) going to function?  How were the white and black citizens in the south going to live together / work together after one class of people were literally property?\n\n(2) You might find starting information on Johnson's reconstruction plans here:\n(This is wikipedia, so you need better sources, but it's a start)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction
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Yes the current problems in Africa are as a factor of colonialism. During colonial days the whites mistreated Africans so badly, that when the new leaders came to power the just copied the same things the whites were doing in the office. The biggest problems facing Africans are corruption, poverty, jobless, illeteracy and lack of good leadership. The leaders in government are not concerned about changing Africa for them all they care is put more cash in their pockets, coz they have given up on trying though they never even tried. though up to today still the west is crushing Africa down, by selling the war lords weapons and even financing them.thats why there are so many rebels who dont even know why they are fighting, and most of them are children.
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African Americans still suffer from a generational effect of a slave health deficit.
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No, I own my own business and am obviously older than you.\n\nFirst, study your history.\nBlack slaves were more physically capable than whites or Indians and quickly replaced both in agriculture which demanded hard, manual labor under bad conditions. No other group as a race was as strong and productive. Without them, the South would not have benefitted from a strong cotton and sugar industry. The North that bought these products and processed them would not have been as productive either. It was only when the south threatened to go directly to Europe where prices were cheaper than the more expensive North that the slavery issue became a galvenizing force for the North to attack the more rural and agricultural south. There were still slaves in the North during this conflict so it was not just riteous indignation that spawned the liberation of the blacks.\n\nAfter the war, many blacks continued to work on the farms where they had worked their whole lives. Life was much more difficult then and it has only been in the last 100 years or so that most of our population lives in cities.\n\nAfter the war, it took all of us time to heal. Blacks, Southerners, Northerners, etc. Blacks still helped rebuild the South after the war.\n\nNow, we have a huge population that lives in cities. As a whole, I cannot definitively say that blacks are equal to the other races in productivity. Many of their decendents were brought here for their physical attributes and they have been surpressed after the war as well.\n\nI think that we are now at a cross roads. Blacks, as a race, probably have more rights than whites but have not been allowed to complete a transition that can take decades.\n\nI think most people would appreciate it if you would learn more about history and not feel so cormfortable sitting at your computer and spreading racism. You are being more lazy and hateful than those you attack.\n\nUndoubtedly, your stupid comments have hurt and alienated a good many people of all nationalities. So start using Yahoo for something productive because right now, I think America's economy would be much better off without people like you, no matter what race you are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It was not just about slavery but that is about all most people know about it. Of course it is good that slavery was abolished but slavery continued in the North even during the Civil War. In the south, most cotton farmers faired little better than the slaves, picking cotton along side them. It was not just about big Plantations and rich white slave masters in red coats and top hats!\n\nThe south was destroyed.\nThe war was primarily an economic war just like most wars. In this case, over cotton.\nThe South was threatening to have their cotton sent to Europe and bypass the East. The East would have been hurt tremendously and used the slavery issue as a way to garner public support.\n\nThe pros were that the East kept their manufacturing and slavery was abolished.\nThe cons are too numerous to mention. People's lives and livelihoods were destroyed for decades to come. Carpet baggers made it even worse after the war was over. Many blacks stayed on the farms and helped with the recovery.\n\nThis is an interesting war to study and I hope you enjoy your research. It seems like the slavery issue is all people know about it.
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issues that affect aboriginal peoples