Pilgrim's View Of The Jim Crow

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After reading and viewing the Jim Crow pieces, I conclude that the laws made were based off of inadequate reasons and their intentions were outrageously atrocious to dark-skinned people. For example, Pilgrim states, “Their immediate goal was to drive out --through death or expulsion-- all Blacks; the larger goal was to maintain, at all costs, White supremacy”. This quote shows that Whites did not care how the black humans died; As long as they died and the Whites received their predominance, Whites were fine with how Blacks died. The overall aspiration was to keep Blacks as servants and at the bottom of the racial hierarchy no matter the cost. Another idea that supports this conclusion is when the artist illustrates, “An image of a black man

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