How Did The Jim Crow Laws Protect African Americans
Previously in the American civil war had fought over the right to own slaves and in 1863 Abraham Lincoln Proclamation had promised freedom. Although around about 100 years later segregation was everywhere.
The Ku Klux Klan which is an organisation which was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866 to stop Reconstruction and intimidate African Americans. Through this wicked organisation, fear, brutality and murder this specific group reforms local governments and restore white supremacy.
At the end of the 1870s Reconstruction was about to come to an end. Most white politicians were stopping the cause of protecting African Americans. By then local governments and neighbouring states constructed a legal system which aimed at re-establishing a society based on white supremacy, African American men were largely barred from voting. The …show more content…
Whites were superior to blacks in many different ways. This system was believed to destroy America as any act of equality to blacks would react as an interracial penalty. If any blacks tried to be equal to rights, violence was to be used to keep them at the bottom. The following Jim Crow Laws were extremely severe as the norms were like rules for the blacks such as a black male could not shake a white males hand as it implied having social equality. There also separate drinking fountains for white and blacks, they weren’t allowed to smoke next to each other, show affection or either eat together.
Martin Luther King was the most famous person which was associated with the civil rights movement. Dr King was active from the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott incident of 1955.
Previously Dr King first experienced discrimination of an early age of six when he and a white friend were sent to different schools. Later at the age of 14, King was forced to give up his bus seat for a white passenger on a ride home from
The Ku Klux Klan which is an organisation which was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866 to stop Reconstruction and intimidate African Americans. Through this wicked organisation, fear, brutality and murder this specific group reforms local governments and restore white supremacy.
At the end of the 1870s Reconstruction was about to come to an end. Most white politicians were stopping the cause of protecting African Americans. By then local governments and neighbouring states constructed a legal system which aimed at re-establishing a society based on white supremacy, African American men were largely barred from voting. The …show more content…
Whites were superior to blacks in many different ways. This system was believed to destroy America as any act of equality to blacks would react as an interracial penalty. If any blacks tried to be equal to rights, violence was to be used to keep them at the bottom. The following Jim Crow Laws were extremely severe as the norms were like rules for the blacks such as a black male could not shake a white males hand as it implied having social equality. There also separate drinking fountains for white and blacks, they weren’t allowed to smoke next to each other, show affection or either eat together.
Martin Luther King was the most famous person which was associated with the civil rights movement. Dr King was active from the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott incident of 1955.
Previously Dr King first experienced discrimination of an early age of six when he and a white friend were sent to different schools. Later at the age of 14, King was forced to give up his bus seat for a white passenger on a ride home from