When you hear the words “Jim Crow Law” you just know that nothing good can come out of these words. The Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. These laws were all very unreasonable. In this essay I will be explaining how Jim Crow laws and practices deprived American citizens of their civil rights.
Additionally, I did some research in my English class and found out that back then the most well known and talked about law was Intermarriage (“The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow”). People did not approve of Native Americans and White people back then. But it’s not just these religions. Anyone that you decide to marry who isn’t the same race …show more content…
According to (“the National Park Service, US Department of the Interior”) topics like Buses, Textbooks, Restaurants, Parks, Railroads and so much more topics you’d never think of became a Jim Crow law back in the 1800’s. But the most shocking thing I’ve noticed what most of these laws have in common is the fact that each law mostly talks about the separation of different races. Like the law for Textbooks, “Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them.” North Carolina. When I first went on a website about the Jim Crow laws I found out that these laws were based on keeping different races apart. Learning about this kind of topic is very emotional, powerful, and most of all …show more content…
No one believed that people with different races, different religions, or different features should be around each-other. Well everyone except for one person, Martin Luther King Jr. He was brave enough to speak up, and say what he felt. He made a difference, he had a dream. A dream so amazing, he had to share out for other people to hear during a time like this. He made an inspirational speech for everyone to hear, for everyone to follow, for everyone to think. How they were living there lives then, it was most definitely not right.Why separate people with different cultures? We should all be proud of who we are, and who we are around. We should never feel threatened, or feel like we shouldn’t be able to be around people who have different religions than us. We are all human, we are all the same, inside and out. The one thing that The Jim Crow laws taught me was to never let yourself feel like you don’t belong, Jim Crow laws happened for a reason. It separated us, but this is the present. Everyone is equal and we all have the same rights, we aren’t in a world where we have to be afraid of being different. We’re in a world where it is okay to be