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This picture is from one of the racism protests during the pandemic.

this image is telling those who see it that racism has always been a problem and African Americans have suffered for century's.

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this mural is of a African American George Floyd and he was the main reason of the black lives matter protests. he was murdered in cold blood by a police officer and was sufficated and had said one of the most famous lines " I cant breathe".

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This image proves how all African Americans were at a disadvantage since they were born. Racism had caused many children to not want be black anymore. Racism had caused so many mental problems to people and people were just judged by how they look.

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Racism is when a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.

Racism is a very wide subject but it effected so many people.

Segregation when they had seperated all blacks and they had black bathrooms and white bathrooms. All places that were segregated were separate schools, hotels, bars, hospitals, toilets, parks, even telephone booths, and separate sections in libraries, cinemas, and restaurants

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Central idea.

I think the central idea or main idea of the text is " Don't let people distract you to your goals and always work hard for what you want.

Summary.

Kareem Abdul Jabbar is a young black boy who was born into a house that had always dealt with racism. Kareem was a very smart young boy who never really worried about girls or many people and he was always a kind person who worked very hard for all he wanted.But he had to deal with many people discriminating him just for his skin color. Kareem never let anyone affect him and Kareem always focused on his goals. But as he got older it didn't get easier for him. Once he started basketball he had noticed he was very good and was very tall. Kareem met one of his coaches named coach Donahue which he liked at the start but it all changed once his coach had called him by a racial slur. but like Kareem always did, he stayed focused on his goals not letting anyone get in his way. Kareem had then changed his religion later on in the story and like always the christian people of the church he used to go to did not take it lightly. They were rude about it and did not accept him for his choices. After high school Kareem had many division one offers but decided to go to Los Angeles and go to UCLA. after many wins there he was drafted to the NBA. ultimately he showed much perserverance and focused on his goals prove the central idea.

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Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court

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Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court [Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, Obstfeld, Raymond] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court

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Central idea:People that suffer from racism is more likely to have limited opportunities in life.

Summary: Racism is not as bad as the past but it still causes many problems and disadvantages to people of a certain skin color. Racism currently causes many African Americans in the US to have less mental emotional and physical opportunities.

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The things I have learned while reading my novel and all articles is that they dont let African American people give there own story and stereotype them because of there skin. due to this many African American people suffer from many things like depression and suicide. racism is a serious problem for people and some people just dont notice this. Racism can effect if they can get jobs and other opportunities other people get.

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central idea: just because you are treated differently don't back down.

summary:The Jim crow laws were a type of laws that supported segregation and caused black people to have separated resturants libarys schools and drinking fountains and more. the jim crow laws were very important back then because they effected all lives of African americans. the Jim crow laws were invented in 1865 and were abolished in 1964.

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Jim Crow Laws | American Experience | PBS

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The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South.

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In the novel Becoming Kareem, the author had helped me understand the story by putting it in chronalogical order. by doing that it would help you jot notes and help you understand what happened to him each year and due to it being in order you were able to connect the dots and fully understand the book.

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the author of this article helped me understand what the idea of the text was because he had described him reasoning and he had much proof and a lot of his own thinking so you can understand why the jim crow laws were so bad.

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Freedom Riders | Article

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century beginning in the 1890s. The laws affected almost every aspect of daily life, mandating segregation of schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and restaurants. "Whites Only" and "Colored" signs were constant reminders of the enforced racial order.

Signs such as "Colored Waiting Room" constantly reminded travelers of the enforced racial order. Credit: Library of Congress

In legal theory, blacks received "separate but equal" treatment under the law - in actuality, public facilities for blacks were nearly always inferior to those for whites, when they existed at all. In addition, blacks were systematically denied the right to vote in most of the rural South through the selective application of literacy tests and other racially motivated criteria.

Sign at a Greyhound Bus Station in Rome, GA. Credit: Library of Congress

The Jim Crow system was upheld by local government officials and reinforced by acts of terror perpetrated by Vigilantes. In 1896, the Supreme Court established the doctrine of separate but equal in Plessy v. Ferguson, after a black man in New Orleans attempted to sit in a whites-only railway car.

In 1908, journalist Ray Stannard Baker observed that "no other point of race contact is so much and so bitterly discussed among Negroes as the Jim Crow car." As bus travel became widespread in the South over the first half of the 20th century, it followed the same pattern.

"Travel in the segregated South for black people was humiliating," recalled Diane Nash in her interview for Freedom Riders. "The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to black people and white people that blacks were so subhuman and so inferior that we could not even use the public facilities that white people used."

Transit was a core component of segregation in the South, as the 1947 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) pamphlet and Bayard Rustin song, "You Don't Have to Ride Jim Crow" attests. Keeping whites and blacks from sitting together on a bus, train, or trolley car might seem insignificant, but it was one more link in a system of segregation that had to be defended at all times - lest it collapse. Thus transit was a logical point of attack for the foes of segregation, in the courtroom and on the buses themselves.

It would take several decades of legal action and months of nonviolent direct action before these efforts achieved their intended result.

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Jim Crow Laws | American Experience | PBS

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The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South.