Malachai

“There always was a need for a boy to be with a girl. You knew that, as soon as a white man who might have his eyes on a young black girl came along in an automobile, you were to detain him in some kind of questioning way, while the girls hurried along.”- Clifford Boxley

Such living conditions sound absolutely horrible. These are children walking home from school. It is not right that they should need to fear being alone. This is just not right that girls should have to fear such a thing. Also the other conditions under Jim Crowe were equally daunting. For example, the most fearful people around were the police. If they were not shown courtesy from the Jim Crowe guidelines, then blacks would be subject to beatings, time in jail, or even killed for their “outburst”. I find that such things are atrocious and shameful, that people would actually put themselves over another people as superiors. What makes one type of human any better than another? The truth of the matter is that the Jim Crowe laws were a horrible establishment and the things done in that time can sadly never be taken back.