The Jim Crow era began in 1887 and was much stronger in civil rights in the 1950s. The law was in effect in the South for separate African Americans from whites. Jim Crow was the stage name of an actor named Thomas Rice. (Wright, 16 years old). This law affects racial segregation. The United States was affected by Jim Crow law until the civil rights movement. Richard Wright's Ethics of Life, Jim Crow, chronicles the dark lives that African Americans led in the South. Jim Crow laws affect the lives of many African Americans in all aspects, including poverty, health, and well-being. The methods used by whites against African American men to harm the minds of African Americans were segregation and how African Americans would live behind the railroad tracks which It was a poverty stricken area. The way Wright described his home was that no plants could grow on his lawn and he had to live. White people would live on the other side of the railroad tracks, where the factories would go. The jobs that African Americans would get were under a white boss or a white family. African Americans would get jobs but under a white boss. The employees who were also black, but Wright didn't understand his place until the other employees threatened him enough to scare him. Violence and lynchings also occurred during the Jim Crow era. “The lynchings, the murders, the beatings, the miscegenation laws designed to separate the black man and the white woman while the white man used the black women, created in him a tremendous feeling. of personal urgency on this issue” (Bryant, 331) The white man did not let African Americans be people. African Americans were mistreated enough that white people hung black people from trees. The ...... middle of paper ......The Americans received. An African American's health was terrible because of how he was treated in his job and in society. The well-being of African Americans was not good at all because of all the hate crimes and abuses committed by white people. The abuse that African Americans endured came not only from white people, but also from their parents. African American children had to learn how to behave and what their place was in society during this time. African American children weren't listening, so they should be punished by their parents for knowing what that place was. During the Jim Crow era, African Americans were not treated the best. African Americans were mistreated during the Jim Crow era. Works Cited Bryant, Jerry the truth about lynching page 331 Wright, Richard the ethics of living Jim Crow (1938)