Question: The documentary The Murder of Emmett Till helps us understand the major features of the Jim-Crow south. Based on the documentary, what are the social, economic, legal and political traits of the Jim Crow Laws that helped trigger the Civil Rights Movement? Social Trait: Fear of Black People The black people, during the times of the Jim Crow Laws, are under the dominion of the racists white people. Most of the black people’s dignity was degraded with the unequal, inhumane, and relentless threats and harassments of the over-powered white folks. Because of all of these insufferable treatments, they mostly lived their lives in great fear and danger. The black people became submissive to them while keeping in mind the capabilities of white people. As the black people fear the white people, the white people do also fear the black people. Well, at that time, it was mostly the white women that greatly fear the black men. They always believed that the black men would do horrible things to them. They had absurd and irrational intense fear against them. The blacks were prejudiced and were given a lot of stereotypes which really ruined their image. As a consequence, they had to avoid even a slight contact by keeping themselves away from the fearful white people. Economic Trait : Jim Crow laws touched every part of life. In the documentary, Blacks had remained second classed citizens, with the worst paid unskilled jobs in farms and factories. The grand majority of them work in agricultural farms like cotton fields. Because of the unfairness in work at the South, hundreds and thousands of black families moved to the Northern cities of the United States like in Chicago to have more freedom and opportunities. There, they get to work in different kind of work unlike in Mississippi.  Many were in manual labor jobs such as in restaurants but there were those that were teachers or even store owners. They were content that they get to do th