1. Jim Crowe laws were never really well-known in the northern parts of the U.S, like Detroit, Michigan or Chicago, Illinois in the early 1920s. These laws were to stop segregation in the southern states of the U.S. Even though segregation is not enforced in these northern residential areas, there was always a division between the whites and the blacks. During WWI, the blacks started coming to the neighborhoods of Paradise Valley in Detroit, just passed 8 mile; regardless of the segregation laws or not. Doctor Ossian Sweet was an African American man who was motivated to change the ways in Detroit. He studied at a college in Ohio and then attended Howard University where he received a medical degree specializing in gynecology. He then moved to Detroit because of the different job opportunities. Dr. Sweet did not realize what he was getting himself into while purchasing a home in a white American neighborhood. White Americans did not want African Americans living in the same residential areas. If so, the whites would leave or start violence in the area. Dr. Sweet and his family moved into a house on September 8th, 1925. He knew there would be some sort of violence as soon as they arrived at their little house on the corner of Charlevoix and Garland and knew that little protection from the police of Detroit was all that they would receive. By the 2nd night …show more content…
Out of all three websites, I found that The White House website was easiest to use. I feel that it was the easiest because it had detailed links at the top of the home page. One similarity I found between all three websites is that they all used the same color scheme throughout their websites: red, white, and blue. Each website also has a tab explaining current events that are happening in the U.S. today. To get around The Senate website, I had to use the search bar at the top of the page. So I found that this website was the hardest to use. This assignment taught me a lot about our Congress and its