Jim Crow Laws: Segregation And Racism In The United States

Throughout the years many different views on segregation and racism have surfaced. In 1877 the United States government followed a racial caste system called Jim Crow. This racial caste system called for the separation of African-Americans and Caucasians in any situation or setting. These laws known as Jim Crow, violated the rights of African-Americans in their social activities, schooling, and through transportation; if it wasn’t for someone like Rosa Parks, Jim Crow would still be alive today. Rosa Parks was an African-American woman who one day unintentionally found herself refusing to move to the back of the bus for a Caucasian male. Now at this time all means of transportation were segregated. On busses Caucasians were seated in the front and African-Americans in the back. Parks was arrested and charged with civil disobedience. The fourteenth amendment section 1 states “nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”(14th) this section of the
African American children were not even allowed to go to school with white children, and schools of different races could not compete against each other in sports because African Americans were looked down on. These “colored” schools were poorly funded and students had to go out of their way to get to them even when there was an all-white school just around the corner. The idea of separate but equal is utterly flawed in this scenario. These segregated school systems had a tendency to make black children feel inferior to white children. Their feelings of inferiority where caused by being discriminated against. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that segregation in public school was unconstitutional and inherently unequal. This ruling is just one of many others furthering Africa-Americans case that Jim Crow laws are