Propaganda and What Life Was Back Then

1140 Words3 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: racism in the usa history

“ No good colored boy.” , “Go back in the hog pen where you belong”, “ were common words that came out of the mouths of small hearted people all across the United States. Just imagine having to live in a time where every town, city, and state was surrounded with the outlook of black segregation. Try to comprehend how life would be like as a black maid, black slave, or a black child trying to ignore what others say back then. Back then it was just how it was. You wouldn’t think twice that it would be wrong if you say a flier on the wall welcoming whites to the Bingo get together that was at the new church down the road. In big black letters said on the bottom that said WHTIES ONLY. This makes me wonder Why would whites treat other blacks in such a way that makes the white such a powerful race. I also wonder how segregation got started and how propaganda threw segregation was a positive thing for whites. Finaly I wonder if we still have segregation even years and years down the road. It may not seem like it but propaganda is a big part in the era when we, as a Nation, influenced in our normal lives the act of segregation. During this time it was common to have propaganda like posters, commercials, bill boards, or any other type of advertisements that suggested that whites were for sure the positive and superior race. In properganda like the picture on the left is an example of what’s called Advertising Cards. These cards were discriminatory customs and laws that discouraged americans of may racial, ethics, or religious backgrounds (S. N. History). This Advertising card refers to the African American race as dirty people who don’t belong in a civilization. The words,“Dar ain’t no flies on us” , implies that the people on the fence... ... middle of paper ... ... its not like what it was back then. Works Cited Almasy, Ralph Ellis and Steve. Cnn. 2014. 9 May 2014 . charles. glynn. 25 October 2000. 15 May 2014 . drewry, henry. scholastic. 2014. 15 May 2014 . hate crime timeline. 2014. 23 April 2014 . History, Smithsonian National musem of American. American History. n.d. 16 April 2014 . History, Smithsonian Natunal Museum of American. American History. n.d. 16 April 2014 . The Henry Ford. 20o2. 15 May 2014 . trpper, rachel. huffingtonpost. 19 june 2013. 9 May 2014 .

Show More
Related

  • A Review of The Strange Career of Jim Crow

    1075 Words  | 3 Pages

    ...isely. This book has been extremely influential in the world of academia and the thinking on the subject of segregation and race relations in both the North and the South, but more importantly, it has influenced race relations in practice since it was first published. However, Woodward’s work is not all perfect. Although he does present his case thoroughly, he fails to mention the Negroes specifically as often as he might have. He more often relies on actions taken by whites as his main body of evidence, often totally leaving out the actions that may have been taken by the black community as a reaction to the whites’ segregationist policies.

    Read More

  • Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBoise

    1614 Words  | 4 Pages

    During the four decades following reconstruction, the position of the Negro in America steadily deteriorated. The hopes and aspirations of the freedmen for full citizenship rights were shattered after the federal government betrayed the Negro and restored white supremacist control to the South. Blacks were left at the mercy of ex-slaveholders and former Confederates, as the United States government adopted a laissez-faire policy regarding the “Negro problem” in the South. The era of Jim Crow brought to the American Negro disfranchisement, social, educational, and occupational discrimination, mass mob violence, murder, and lynching. Under a sort of peonage, black people were deprived of their civil and human rights and reduced to a status of quasi-slavery or “second-class” citizenship. Strict legal segregation of public facilities in the southern states was strengthened in 1896 by the Supreme Court’s decision in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case. Racists, northern and southern, proclaimed that the Negro was subhuman, barbaric, immoral, and innately inferior, physically and intellectually, to whites—totally incapable of functioning as an equal in white civilization.

    Read More

  • Rhetorical Analysis Of The Montgomery Bus Boycott

    1544 Words  | 4 Pages

    The 1955 AFRO--American newspaper article “Boycott Still On; Bus Co. Loses $3,000 Daily,” takes a liberal stance in describing the black leaders of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Bus Company. The article states how bus drivers told black passengers, “N…. r get up out of your seat.”[viii] The n-word is a derogatory term used to refer to African Americans—particularly slaves--before and after the Civil War, and its use in the article illustrates that the bus drivers do not even think of blacks as human beings but rather property, authorizing the bus drivers to address black passengers in an uncivilized and insulting manner. Explicit racial language allows the media to point out how racial segregation between white bus drivers and black passengers remains a predominant aspect in the relationship between the two racial groups. Ironically, the AFRO newspaper claims that the Montgomery Bus company “insisted that the drivers were ‘always courteous.’”[ix] However, the ‘N…r’ proclamation from the driver directly opposes the bus company’s statement, and invalidates the company’s message. This dissonance can be explained by George Lipsitz’s article, “The which argues how systemic whiteness has created institutions that stress the incompatibility of racially

    Read More

  • Grace Elizabeth Hale Making Whiteness Summary

    355 Words  | 1 Pages

    Making Whiteness: the culture of segregation in the south, 1890-1940 is the work of Grace Elizabeth Hale. In her work, she explains the culture of the time between 1890 and 1940. In her book she unravels how the creation of the ‘whiteness’ of white Southerners created the ‘blackness’ identity of southern African Americans. At first read it is difficult to comprehend her use of the term ‘whiteness’, but upon completion of reading her work, notes included, makes sense. She states that racial identities today have been shaped by segregation, “...the Civil War not only freed the slaves, it freed American racism

    Read More

  • Plessy V. Ferguson And The 14th Amendment

    1113 Words  | 3 Pages

    Even in Post-Civil War times, they still maintained the master and slave relationship until the 13th amendment came about. After the 14th amendment came about, the colored had more breathing room but that didn 't stop the whites from looking down on them. That was part of their culture where the blacks were still slaves in their minds but the times are changing and they just couldn’t cope with that. During the Supreme court case “Plessy v. Ferguson” the majority of the Justices ruled that separate and equal was the precedent. This shows that changing the law alone wouldn 't change the southern attitude towards race! This man named Homer Plessy is 1/8th black and is still considered black, they made separate bathrooms and water fountains specifically for each race because sharing just was not an option. This shows that whites at the time had a hard time coping with the

    Read More

  • Essay On Ww1 Propaganda

    575 Words  | 2 Pages

    During WW1, the Americans had influenced the war by propaganda. Propaganda is when you spread rumors to influence society. Propaganda was used to affect Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. In Germany propaganda was used to give the soldiers morals and people with false information that was sent by balloons or planes. In America propaganda was used to persuade other Americans to join the war against Germany. In Great Britain, propaganda was meant to convince men into joining the war and for people to save food for the war effort.

    Read More

  • Compare And Contrast A Lesson Before Dying

    1317 Words  | 3 Pages

    Segregation is the act of setting someone apart from other people mainly between the different racial groups without there being a good reason. The African American’s had different privileges than the white people had. They had to do many of their daily activities separated from the white people. In A Lesson Before Dying there were many examples of segregation including that the African American’s had a different courthouse, jail, church, movie theater, Catholic and public school, department stores, bank, dentist, and doctor than the white people. The African American’s stayed downtown and the white people remained uptown. The white people also had nicer and newer building and attractions than the African American’s did. They had newer books and learning tools compared to the African American’s that had books that were falling apart and missing pages and limited amount of supplies for their students. The African American’s were treated as if they were lesser than the white people and they had to hold doors and let them go ahead of them to show that they knew that they were not equal to them and did not have the same rights or privileges as they did just because of their race. In A Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass segregation is shown through both slavery and the free African American’s during this time. It showed that the African American’s were separated from the white people and not

    Read More

  • Examples Of Racism In A Gathering Of Old Men

    522 Words  | 2 Pages

    The timeline of racism is as old as time. Racism, over the years, has thrived and has created a divide between people of different ethnicity and race. It breeds an aura where one race feels superior over another because of skin color, or background. It has even gone to the extent of creating an hierarchy that even makes men of a particular race inferior to women of another. In the book, A Gathering Of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines, Gaines takes time and effort to discuss the pain, fear and shame the characters felt in being black.

    Read More

  • How Did The Montgomery Bus Boycott Impact The Civil Rights Movement

    1290 Words  | 3 Pages

    Finally understanding the breadth of the black’s commitment to their cause, supporters of segregation began to feel threatened by the boycotters. Because of African Americans’ long-standing status as “property” and the widely held belief that they are inferior, the white Southerner’s unyielding faith in his ability to control blacks had never before seen such a threat. A rally meant to prevent integration held by the Central Alabama Citizens Council in February 1956 introduced a handbill modeled after the Declaration of Independence and portrayed African Americans as animalistic savages that would bring about the end of civilization. The author contorts the opening words of the Declaration in an attempt to deem whites the “original” Americans with the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of dead niggers”. This handbill attempted to negate the raised spirits of the African Americans and return the power to the hands of white extremists by threatening to “abolish the Negro race” by use of “guns, bows and arrows, sling shots and knives” (Handbill).

    Read More

  • Differences Between The Nuremberg Laws And The Jim Crow Laws

    1158 Words  | 3 Pages

    Throughout the 1800’s and 1900’s in the southern region of the United States, all African Americans were treated like they didn’t belong here in this country. Almost all white males that were wealthy owned a plethora of African Americans as their personal slaves. They would work days upon days for their respective owners. Whether it was picking cotton or doing whatever their owner asked of them, they were pretty much treated like they were anything but a human being. They were treated poorly and their living conditions can probably be considered as inhumane. The quality of life for the two races in our beloved country had a huge difference. This era was more commonly known as the Jim Crow era. “Jim Crow describes the segregationist social system

    Read More

  • Social Dichotomy of the 1920s

    673 Words  | 2 Pages

    After the war, issues of race weren't ignored. Black men had come back from a war were they were treated like men. They still weren't treated as equally as whites, but they were treated better during the war than they were back home where they were treated like objects. This gave them more motivation to demand equality when they returned. But after the war, white hostility towards blacks increased. This became a dichotomy when there was competition for low wage jobs between the blacks and whites. There was also black encroachment into white neighborhoods. The whites d...

    Read More

  • Black Codes Effect

    839 Words  | 2 Pages

    Some of the black codes were still unlawfully enforced for decades after they were made illegal. Some people might not be as racist and have a different mindset then they do now. The segregation that the black codes caused causes people to be more sensitive towards racial inequality because of the segregation the black codes caused. Like how people were getting pissed that the Emmys didn’t have enough black people being nominated. We would be much closer as a community without the lingering ideas and mindset that the black codes have put into us. We would be much closer without segregation and

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Gone: An Historical Romance Of A Civil War By Kara Walker

    1561 Words  | 4 Pages

    Power and destiny has been controlled by white people throughout the history of the United States. There is still racial inequality between the white community and black community. This could have been an attempt to portray the distorted ways white people use their slaves in the 19th century. Even now, African Americans need to rely on dependent development.

    Read More

  • Criticism In The New Negro, By Alain Locke

    762 Words  | 2 Pages

    “The New Negro” brings negroes from the south together with Negros from the north after the beginning of the World War. “So, what began in terms of segregation becomes more and more, as its

    Read More

  • Essay On Segregation

    1501 Words  | 4 Pages

    Segregation was more than just the different water fountains and seats on the bus, it happened in everything. Whether it was where a person could apply for a job or where a person could stand in a waiting room at a hospital. It was just part of everyday life; children were raised through segregation and knew nothing else besides it. White children were raised believing that it was right, so they did it in schools, from elementary all the way through college and universities.

    Read More

More about Propaganda and What Life Was Back Then

Open Document