In a way, people did not want African Americans to succeed. The people from the South used terrorism to keep the blacks in their place. Things that the white people might have done were lynching, whipping, burning, and other kinds of violence. They tried to use black people as an example to others, they can’t succeed, so you can’t either. Jim Crow laws came into place around the early 1900s. This meant that it was actually a law that people were allowed to have segregated facilities. Whites became attached to these laws, and the strictness of them only became worse as the years passed. Things like drinking fountains, train seats, and bus seats were separate for the blacks. Back in the 1930s, we were considered a free and equal nation like today. Everyone was supposed to be treated the same, but the blacks were not. They were not even considered to be people. They were place outside of society, where everyone looked down upon them and considered them trash. It was hard from they to hold their heads up, and it made many of them want to move out of the South
In a way, people did not want African Americans to succeed. The people from the South used terrorism to keep the blacks in their place. Things that the white people might have done were lynching, whipping, burning, and other kinds of violence. They tried to use black people as an example to others, they can’t succeed, so you can’t either. Jim Crow laws came into place around the early 1900s. This meant that it was actually a law that people were allowed to have segregated facilities. Whites became attached to these laws, and the strictness of them only became worse as the years passed. Things like drinking fountains, train seats, and bus seats were separate for the blacks. Back in the 1930s, we were considered a free and equal nation like today. Everyone was supposed to be treated the same, but the blacks were not. They were not even considered to be people. They were place outside of society, where everyone looked down upon them and considered them trash. It was hard from they to hold their heads up, and it made many of them want to move out of the South