Jim Crow

Jim Crow- It was the social and legal spearation of blacks from whitesi n the South. It was the focus of Richard Wright's The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch. He talks about his time in the South and living thruogh Jim Crow segregation. It was a harsh and unjust social system that oppressed blacks and gave them nearly no way of climbing out of that oppression. However, it varied form location to location. Wright's time in Alabama and Mississippi seemed very rough; however, his time in Memphis was bad, but it wasn't as harsh. He was allowed to do some thigns such as make small talk with whites in his factory or check out books under his boss's name, which made the Jim Crow life in Memphis somewhat different for him.