Essay - Jim Crow Florida: Views Expressed by James Weldon Johnson and...

Jim Crow Florida:

Views expressed by James Weldon Johnson and Zora Neale Hurston

***** of Thesis:

This paper will examine the lives and beliefs of James ***** Johnson and Zora ***** Hurston as well as exploring each of these individuals interpretation of class and gender in relation to race. This ***** will answer the question as ***** whe*****r their personal reflections ***** Jim ***** Florida were similar or different and how so.

Introduction:

***** Neale *****, novelist, dramatist, folkl*****ist, and anthropologist w***** born in, Eatonville Florida, on the day of the 7th, she "heard tell," of January ***** 1903. It is fairly certain that she was the fifth child born in a total of eight to her parents. That which Hurs*****n, "***** tell" were her brothers different versions ***** her date of birth appearing to ***** that none ***** the ***** actually remembered exactly when she ***** actually born.

***** fa*****r, after her mother died, remarried and the young Zora Hurston was sent away to other family, here and there and finally to a school in Jack*****nville. While ***** Jacksonville Hurston met "racial segregation" for the first time.

Eatonville historically remembered due to being the first Black Town to incorporate was a very sm*****ll town comprised of nearly all blacks. Hurston reveals in her writing the diversity, as well as adversity experienced in daily life in ***** reality of lives experienced ***** African-Americans at the ***** ***** ***** she grew up.

James Weldon *****, black poet, musician and political activist expressed through his outlets of **********, music ***** political activities. After having spent two summers in Georgia teach*****g black children he decided he would dedicate himself to bettering the African American status. Johnson's beliefs, published by the NAACP were simply this:

***** not allow one prejudiced person or one million or one hundred million to blight my life. I will not let prejudice or any of its attendant humiliations and injustices bear me down to spiritual defeat. My inner ***** is mine, ***** I shall defend and maintain its integrity against all the powers of hell."

The Jim Crow Laws: The Views of Johnson and Hurston

***** and ***** were alive ***** interacting as black individuals during the time of "Jim Crow." "Jim *****" was ***** name given to the so-called "rules" and "regulations" of ***** during that time period. Basically, Jim Crow made a caricature out of all individuals who ***** black regulating them to second-class citizen status. The ***** Crow laws gave legal right for the abuse, discrimination, assault, disregard for and even sometimes death ***** the black individual.

***** summer of 1919 was referred to as the "red" summer because ***** ***** spilled blood of the dead ***** to the racial tensions ***** caused uprisings, multiple both mass and rural lynchings ***** even the burning alive of some black *****. James Weldon Johnson wrote a "The Red Summer" in connection to that horrendous summer ***** death, lynchings and the evidence of ignorance expressed through ***** hate. Jim