The Jim Crow Laws In Booker T. Washington's Jim Crow

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During the beginning of the Jim Crow era in the late 19th and early 20th century, there was a realization among many that although the Civil War was over, many people’s mindsets remained the same. Laws such as Black Codes, which attempted to make it impossible for African Americans to live as a citizen of the United States, but to only have a minimum more freedom than they did as slaves. Other plans, such as the Mississippi Plan, had attempted to make it impossible for African Americans to vote, effectively silencing their voices, and letting other detrimental laws be passed. Although congress was able to prevent some of these events with new laws, after the panic of 1837, many in the north grew tired of talking about and dealing with the south. And there, is where…show more content…
Washington’s 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech. 1) W.E.B. Du Bois. At the beginning of his speech, Du Bois has a succinct tone, that grabs the public by the ear and says what he wants to happen in the country. Two of the most intriguing things that were in his speech were: (1) “Never before in the modern age has a great and civilized folk threatened to adopt so cowardly a creed in the treatment of its fellow-citizens born and bred on its soil. Stripped of verbiage and subterfuge and in its naked nastiness the new American creed says: Fear to let black men even try to rise lest they become the equals of the white. And this is the land that professes to follow Jesus Christ. The blasphemy of such a course is only matched by its cowardice.” ; (2) “Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” (Excerpt from the Niagara Movement Speech.
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