How Did Jim Crow Laws Affect The Civil Rights Movement
Did you know that America wasn't always as equal and free as it is now? Well for many decades Black Americans suffered and fought for Civil Rights. The Civil Rights Movement is important because everyone deserves to be treated equally and rightfully under the constitution. It was a long fight for equal rights, and many things impeded the progress of Civil Rights such as Jim Crow laws and the case of Plessy V. Ferguson. However, many things helped Black Americans find freedom. Passed immediately after the Civil War, the Jim Crow laws restricted many rights of black Americans. Moreover, the Jim Crow laws were laws passed in southern states to segregate and limit the voting rights of black Americans. These laws also limited the jobs black Americans
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The Comite des Citoyens (Committee of Citizens), a group who was after taking down the act, implored Plessy, who is black under Louisiana law, to sit in a white’s only train car. The railroad allowed it because they believed the Act brought unnecessary costs, due to having to buy more train cars. Plessy was arrested when he was asked to vacate the car, but refused. When Plessy went to court, his lawyers attested that the Act violated the fourteenth and thirteenth amendments. The court ruled that the act is constitutional and the majority supported state-imposed segregation. Importantly, the court ruled that the fourteenth amendment only constituted that all races be treated equally, but racial segregation did not imply that black Americans are less than white Americans. Although segregation was declared legal in 1896, many Americans knew that it was wrong. In the case of Brown V. Board of Education 1954, the Supreme Court got rid of more than a half-century of legalized segregation. The case became so big that it involved 5 states by the time it reached the Supreme Court. The court decided that separate schools are inherently unequal and make Black Americans feel
The Comite des Citoyens (Committee of Citizens), a group who was after taking down the act, implored Plessy, who is black under Louisiana law, to sit in a white’s only train car. The railroad allowed it because they believed the Act brought unnecessary costs, due to having to buy more train cars. Plessy was arrested when he was asked to vacate the car, but refused. When Plessy went to court, his lawyers attested that the Act violated the fourteenth and thirteenth amendments. The court ruled that the act is constitutional and the majority supported state-imposed segregation. Importantly, the court ruled that the fourteenth amendment only constituted that all races be treated equally, but racial segregation did not imply that black Americans are less than white Americans. Although segregation was declared legal in 1896, many Americans knew that it was wrong. In the case of Brown V. Board of Education 1954, the Supreme Court got rid of more than a half-century of legalized segregation. The case became so big that it involved 5 states by the time it reached the Supreme Court. The court decided that separate schools are inherently unequal and make Black Americans feel