Jim crow essay

I finished TS at 5:07 am T-T Jim Crow laws were racist laws made by the south to keep black Americans as the lowest class. The main people who started Jim Crow laws were the racist southerners. They greatly impacted black Americans by limiting their rights. They were mostly passed and in effect in 1870-1950. In this essay, I will explain why I think W.E.B. DuBois fought Jim Crow laws best. W.E.B. DuBois fought Jim Crow laws by demanding immediate access to equal civil rights, which was more helpful because they didn’t need equal rights in a long time, they needed them now. This mattered because he was trying to get equal rights when they needed them, made even more important because they were heavily oppressed at that time. A quote that I believe represents this well is: “Second, insistence on civil rights [...] The legal creation of a distinct status of civil inferiority for the Negro.” (DuBois, “The souls of Black Folk”) This quote essentially means that he thinks that they needed to insist that they get equal civil rights, and that the white people had made it normal for black people to be considered ‘inferior.’ DuBois also fought Jim Crow laws by teaching the ‘top 10%’ – the ‘talented tenth’ — of black men. He then taught this group to lead, and teach others, his goal with this was to train them – this talented tenth – to be able to teach others, thereby furthering their race. This mattered because he was training them to help others learn skills they could use to help ‘liberate’ their people. The quote that I chose for this is: “The Talented Tenth must be made leaders of thought and [...] of culture among their people.” (DuBois, “the Talented Tenth.”) At its root, this quote means that the Talented Tenth were meant to be leaders of their race, teaching the masses. In conclusion, W.E.B. DuBois fought Jim Crow laws better becaus his plan was to have immediate action. He also changed the lives of many people, such as the talented tenth, and all the people he helped free from Jim Crow laws. He was a very important person because he helped to truly free African-American people.