Effects Of Segregation On African Americans Before The 1960's

Before the 1960’s, children attended segregated schools. Most everything was segregated before the 1960’s. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others have staged demonstrations and protests of racism and segregation. After the Civil War, many slaves were free and the south was in ruins. There was no one to enforce the 14th Amendment in the South. The laws and society they were created in the south were called “Jim Crow”. The reason they were called this was that white minstrels would paint their faces black and play a character called Jim Crow. Movies like Birth of a Nation caused riots and hate groups like the KKK used fear and paranoia to keep African Americans from doing anything about it and to create hatred towards African Americans. Many