What Are The Effects Of Segregation During The Jim Crow Era

During Jim Crow there were many laws that blacks had to abide by, otherwise it might cost them their life. Segregation during the Jim Crow Era was unbearable for some. The white population however, felt that the 'Jim Crow' laws reminded blacks that they were superior to their race. A lot has changed since the Jim Crow era, however the result of that time, has had a huge effect on how we view ‘African-Americans’ today. If someone were to see an African-American in a bad part of town, they might stereotype that person. They might presume them as being involved in a gang, a thief, or even a drug dealer. It was pounded into heads long ago that African-Americans were bad because of their color, they were not like white Americans and they were
Some of them seem completely ridiculous and so horrible to think that one might actually put these types of restrictions on people just because of their color, but back them it seemed to make perfect sense.

Whites were superior to blacks in so many ways, including intelligence, morality, and every day behavior. Treating blacks as equals would encourage interracial social equality. If necessary, violence would be used to keep blacks at the bottom. These are some examples of Jim Crow Laws that were enforced regarding etiquette.

1. A black male can not offer to shake hands with a white male. (Because it implies being equal.) A black male could not offer his hand or any other part of his body to a white female because he would risk being accused of rape.
2. Blacks and white are not allowed to eat together. If they did, white will be served first and there was to be a sort of partition between blacks and the whites.
3. Black males were not allowed to offer to light the cigarette of a white female because the gesture implied intimacy.
4. If a black rose in a car driven by a white person, they were to sit in the backseat or the back of the
On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks helped to change history forever. Rosa Parks sat on a bus in 1955 when a white passenger got on the bus she was instructed to move to the back of the bus and refused. This resulted in her arrest on December 5, 1955. Rosa Parks was the reason for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, (1955-1956) the boycott was a 13 month-long protest that ended with the US Supreme Court ruling that segregation on buses is unconstitutional. The Montgomery bus boycott was coordinated by MIA (Montgomery Improvement Association) the president of this association was Martin Luther King,