Langston Hughes and Jim Crow Laws

Langston Hughes and Jim Crow Laws


Today in literacy class we learned about Jim Crow Laws. Jim Crow laws were laws that didn't allow African America to share with white people. Black couldn't use the same bathrooms as white people. Black people were biting. Lets say if they find a white women in pain the first person who they thought did it were black people. Jim crow laws made it shame like white people were humans and black people were animals.

Jim Crow laws were all about segregating. The main places segregating happened was in the south. In the north everything was so much different people didn't care if you were black, white or any color. As for in the south everything was different if you were color you were treated unfairly everywhere.

I think Jim crow were unfair laws been a person of color and not.Black people were treated like if they were not humans and just dogs. I Martin Luther King Jr. never stooped Jim Crow laws everything would be different.


Langston Hughes was an African American poet. He was famous for writhing poems about life, black people and black culture. Langston was born February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967. Hughes is known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance.Hughes wanted young black writers to be objective about their race, but not scorn or to flee it. He understood the main points of the Black Power movement of the 1960s.