the Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

Come listen all you gals and boys, I'm just from coco. I'm going to sing a little song. My name's Jim Crow. We feel about and turn about and do just so every time a wheel about a jump crew, I went down to the river. In 1836, Jim Crow is born. He begins his strange career as a malicious menstrual caricature of a black man. Created by a white man to amuse white audiences. Jim Crow would come to symbolize one of the most tragic eras of race relations in American history. A time deeply rooted and promised and contradiction. 1865, 4 million Americans, slaves have to because they were born black, were now free. But a little over a decade, that promise was gone. Replaced by a rigid system of laws designed to keep blacks from experiencing any of their newly achieved rights. It would be known as the era of Jim Crow, the American form of racial apartheid. I tried to lean inside and get me a cup of water. And those white people meet me. Till I was unconscious. They thought I was dead. My dad said as long as you were living in this south. You're going to have to go to the back door in this town. And you just settled for that. He said, the one thing I want you to swear you promised me that you will never get used to it. I'm not ashamed of the segregated and Jungkook experience. All because we were able to divide techniques for survival. That permitted us to buy our time and to wait until our change come. As most blacks were willing to buy their time, some began to fight back. In the late 1880s and 90s, they embarked on an uncertain campaign to secure voting rights, build their own communities, schools, businesses, and churches. And to demand redress against mob violence and lynching. The white supremacist brought back. By 1919, the Ku Klux Klan which had been a southern idiosyncrasy became a national ideology. White supremacy, the power behind Jim Crow appeared invincible. And over the next decade, the violence against blacks would grow even more horrific. But black Americans continued to battle, using the power of the press, and ultimately the power of the courts. To pursue their quest for freedom and equality against racism. The rise and fall of Jim Crow is their story. The story of strong men and women who would never accept the meaning threatening and perilous world of Jim Crow. The rise and fall of Jim Crow is a story of those who, in the face of unending terror, achieve triumphs. Triumphs that would in time make America better place, not just for themselves, but for all of us.