Jim Crow

2/9/09

I learned about Jim Crow and about what happened by the 1950's. Jim Crow laws are that black and white have to go to different schools, they can't be in the same school. Blacks have to sit in the back of the bus and whites have to sit in the front of the bus. I think they felt non-noticed before that law. I think Malcolm X felt very good because he started to know that blacks weren't scare after Malcolm X gave his speeches. I think white people fought threw Jim Crow laws.
Langston Hughes was the guy who wanted to put black and white together so they wouldn't be enemies. Life started to get a little better because some people started to know it wasn't good what they were doing. The poem I read about today was called "Merry-Go-Round". I think black people got it easier right now than in 1930's because they know everything. Black people now have rights because when Langston Hughes grew up they didn't.
I feel sad because people wasn't never together so much and white people had privileges to do anything and blacks didn't. Langston Hughes fought against Jim Crow laws because he wanted black people to have privileges just like white. Shirley Chisholm fought against Jim Crows laws by giving speeches about trying to protect blacks. Malcolm X did almost the same thing like Shirley Chisholm. Martin Luther King gave a lot more speeches and people started to get used to it and know things about it. If people never spoke against segregation our life would have been ruined and we would have got killed very easily.