The Influence Of The Jim Crow Laws

In the late 19th century the U.S Army left the South and moved back to the North. Without anybody to ensure equality for Blacks, the South was able to segregate Blacks. The South was able to pass the Jim Crow Laws, Grandfather Counsel, and poll taxes. However people like Thomas Moss fought for Black rights. One way that they segregated Blacks was the Jim Crow Laws, which kept the two races from being together. Many Blacks and Whites had to go to separate schools, ride in separate railroad cars, and eat in separate places. To pass the laws, Redeemers paid poor blacks to vote for laws and White representatives, Redeemers would also incorrectly tally votes to help whites get into offices in government. White mobs also started to lynch Blacks, for attacking women and children. However, most of the Blacks that were lynched were innocent, the lynchers were given permission to lynch Blacks from community leaders. Regulations and taxes such
The Jim Crow Laws were a set of laws that were ratified by voters to keep Blacks separate from Whites. Redeemers were people who wanted to end Reconstruction. Redeemers paid poor Blacks to vote for the Jim Crow Laws, poll taxes, literacy tests, White politicians and the Grandfather Counsel. With White politicians in the Senate and the House of Representatives, Blacks had no equal representation in Congress. Soon, Blacks started going to Black schools and churches, and Whites went to White schools and churches. On 1896, a man named Homer Plessy had an all White family background. However, one of his great-grandmothers was Black, his friends wanted to show how silly it was for America to create racial categories. So they chose Plessy to sit in a section of