Terrorism Against African Americans In The 1950's

In the 1800 there was terrorism against african americans they got lynched, raped, and got there homes set on fire. Many rural blacks at this time lived under a sharecropping system(you give half of your crops to the owner of the land). But at least it was a little better than slavery at least they were free. Over the next 20 years, blacks would lose almost all they got the right from the civil war by the jim crow laws. Jim Crow was a slang term for a black man. Any state law passed in the south had white rules and black rules.. Jim Crow laws were the enbodyment of white supremacy. There were 16 black members in the Louisiana General Assembly so you wouldn’t think they would pass a law to prevent black and white people from riding together
“It raises doubt even among friendly nations as to the intensity of our devotion to the democratic faith.”In 1948, President Harry Truman took decisive action to promote racial equality. He urged Congress to abolish the poll tax, enforce fair voting and hiring practices, and end Jim Crow transportation between states. Four Southern states abandoned Truman’s Democratic Party in protest. Then, as commander in chief, Truman ordered the complete integration of the armed forces. He did not wipe out racism, but, trained to obey commands, officers complied as best they could. In Korea, during the 1950s, integrated U.S. forces fought their first war.Back at home, when the new Eisenhower administration downplayed civil rights, federal courts took the lead. In 1950, the NAACP decided to challenge the concept of “separate but equal.” Fed up with poor, overcrowded schools, black parents in South Carolina and Virginia sued to get their children into white schools. Both times, federal courts upheld segregation. Both times, the parents appealed. Meanwhile, in a similar case, Delaware’s Supreme Court ordered a district to admit black students to white schools until adequate classrooms could be provided for blacks. This time, the district
In Topeka, Kansas, where schools for blacks and whites were equally good, Oliver Brown wanted his 8-year-old daughter, Linda, to attend a school close to home. State law, however, prevented the white school from accepting Linda because she was black.
On May 17, 1954, at the stroke of noon, the nine Supreme Court Justices announced their unanimous decision in the four cases, now grouped as Brown v. Board of Education. They held that racial segregation of children in public schools, even in schools of equal quality, hurt minority children. “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” The practice violated the Constitution’s 14th amendment and must stop. To some, the judgment seemed the fruitful end of a long struggle. Actually, the struggle had just