Why Did White Southerners Fight To Maintain A Segregation Southern Society?

Civil rights are always a touchy topic to talk about, it was an era of triumph, hardships, tears, wrath and success for many African Americans. Have you ever taken the time out of your day to ask yourself why did they have to fight to have equal rights? Where African American truly less than Caucasians, or who enabled people to think that a segregated society was okay. Then you start to wonder about all the policies and legislation that our founding founders and representatives created that made a segregated society possible. There is a plethora of political and constitutional factors that permitted White Southerners to maintain a segregated southern society, I will go through a few. First, I would like to start off by saying that the constitution was written by white men with no intent for African Americans having any rights. This has been a very controversial claim over time, but if you go back to the three-fifth compromise it allowed southern states to have more representation in the House of Representatives, however, it listed African Americans as only three-fifths of a person. The constitution also
The amendment banned all forms of slavery and involuntary servitude. However, democrat-controlled southern states found new ways to restrict opportunities to African Americans through black codes. Black codes restricted them from freedom and made them work for low wages and debt. Congress learned of the codes and passed the Civil Rights act of 1866 nullifying the codes and making African Americans citizens of the US; while giving federal courts the power to interfere when there was a threat to their voting rights. The fourteenth amendments were passed soon after that and it guaranteed equal protection and due process of the law to all citizens and then the fifteenth, guaranteeing the right of citizens to vote regardless of their: race, color, or previous condition of