Jim Crow Laws
When I was reading about the Jim Crow Laws in Mr. Wasserman’s class, I found that many things about the laws were put in the novel A lesson Before Dying. I remember that in the book when grant went to visit Pichot he forgot to adress him with “Yes, sir” and things like that. This made Pichot and the other white guy very anooyed. I now realize that it is because at that time in the South there was a law that actually forced them to address every single white person with Sir or Ma’am. I just thought that the black people had to do that just because whites would beat them up or do something bad to them, but I didn’t know it was a law. That surprises me.
November 17th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
I was very surprised that people would actually make laws about how a black person was supposed to act around a white person. It makes no sense how the whites thought they were better and needed to put into effect some of the harshest laws they could think of. Also, in one of the anecdotes, one black man from California, who was unfamiliar with the Jim Crow laws, was shocked at how he was not able to sit in the same restaurant as the white people or go to the same restrooms.