Davis, Tony Journal wright

in this article the author is telling his experiences of growing uo in the south and how it relates to the jim crow laws that were passed in the south. The main point that i was getting out of this article was how to survive in the south as a black man. one was to stay out of the white neighborhoods past sun-set, another one was to never prenounce a white man by his first name always had to say mister and then their name or they would get beatten. Also another thing that was present, but not said directly was never to trust the white-man one instance was that when he was getting a ride and they were all nice at first and then threw a whiskey bottle at him and knocked him off the car and threaten to beat him up more and told him he was lucky that it was us or he would probably have been killed.

Some of the things that happened while were crazy like in the very begining when they got into the fight with the white kids and he was cut with the milk glass and when he told his mother she said dont get into fights with the white kids. Also at his first job when he was getting interviewed and shown around to his co-workers they all seemed nice at first and then time went by and they started to make accusations to get him to leave and so he did. Also when he moved to Memphis and there he said everything was completly different the white folks would actually talk to them while they were working but they kept the conversations limited and only talked about sex, and religion.

1. Why didnt he stand up in the begining at his first job when the two were bullying him?
2. Why would he go to work in a white area when he knew the possibilites to what would happen?

Many of the little passages of this article were shocking that all of this really happened and you can only see so much on the tv and in books about what happened and believe only so much. But when you hear it from an actual person who was going through it and his thoughts and feelings it changes many things that i have heard throughout the years of dealing with slavery.