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=Jim Crow Laws=



The episode that I talked about deals with the idea of segregation between the African Americans and the “whites” at that time. After the Civil War, Africans Americans were considered to be free, but they still were segregated against in the country. In 1876, a little more than ten years after the Civil War, Jim Crow Laws began to be enforced. They were enforced until 1965. These laws caused segregation between blacks and whites in the United States. The laws were supposed to give “separate but equal status” for African Americans, when it really wasn’t that way at all. Some things that were enforced included blacks only being able to go to black schools, drink out of black drinking fountains, not be able to go inside certain buildings or stores, and even public transportation and public places had to have a separate area for blacks and whites.

In //The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn//, Pap is from the South and feels that blacks should be considered slaves and stay separate from the whites. He also feels that blacks should not be able to become free and get an education. There were a lot of people at this time in the South that felt the same way as Huck’s pap did about blacks. Twain is able to show in this episode how people portrayed blacks and the segregation between the blacks and the whites at that time.



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