Question

Once, when Hughes was in seventh grade, he got in trouble. In 1914, when his seventh-grade teacher moved him and the other African-American students into a separate row in class, he got angry. So he put cards that read “JIM CROW ROW” on the black kids’ desks

Why do you think Hughes put cards on the black kids’ desks that said “Jim Crow Row?

Answer 1

Jim Crow row is a folk theatre character created as a racist depiction of African-Americans & their culture so it was placed on their desks as a an insult to the black kids.