Segregation in The South
The Jim Crow Law was passed in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.This affected a lot of people especially African Americans.Segregation was a big thing back then and caused many negative effects in the country.Segregation is not as popular as it was back then but it still happens.
The Jim Crow Law started in the 1950’s.Jim Crow laws were created to separate black and white people from even the slightest bit of contact.. Traveling during The Jim Crow Era exposed African-Americans to both risk and humiliation. Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line or the Ohio River meant entering a different world with different laws. The Supreme Court ruled in 1896 …show more content…
“No” she said, “the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”Although instrumental to the Civil Rights movement, Parks went on to live in anonymity after the protests, working as a seamstress for almost a decade and not receiving national recognition until later in life.Another person who had a big impact was Martin Luther King.One of the finest orators and civil rights leaders of the 20th century, Martin Luther King, Jr. did much to change the United States’ policy on racial discrimination.After helping to launch the Civil Rights Movement by heading the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a black religious organization that directed nonviolent protests against segregationist authorities throughout the 1960s.The zenith of Dr. King’s career came on August 28, 1963 with his “I Have A Dream” speech, given at the …show more content…
The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system, and one of the leaders of the boycott, a young pastor named Martin Luther King Jr., emerged as a prominent leader of the American civil rights movement.There was also a big group called the KKK it was a bunch of white men who hated African Americans.The name of the Ku Klux Klan was derived from the Greek word kyklos,meaning “circle,” and the Scottish-Gaelic word “clan,” which was probably chosen for the sake of alliteration. Under a platform of philosophized white racial superiority, the group employed violence as a means of pushing back Reconstruction and its enfranchisement of African Americans. Former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was the KKK’s first grand wizard; in 1869, he unsuccessfully tried to disband it after he grew critical of the Klan’s excessive
The Jim Crow Law was passed in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.This affected a lot of people especially African Americans.Segregation was a big thing back then and caused many negative effects in the country.Segregation is not as popular as it was back then but it still happens.
The Jim Crow Law started in the 1950’s.Jim Crow laws were created to separate black and white people from even the slightest bit of contact.. Traveling during The Jim Crow Era exposed African-Americans to both risk and humiliation. Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line or the Ohio River meant entering a different world with different laws. The Supreme Court ruled in 1896 …show more content…
“No” she said, “the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”Although instrumental to the Civil Rights movement, Parks went on to live in anonymity after the protests, working as a seamstress for almost a decade and not receiving national recognition until later in life.Another person who had a big impact was Martin Luther King.One of the finest orators and civil rights leaders of the 20th century, Martin Luther King, Jr. did much to change the United States’ policy on racial discrimination.After helping to launch the Civil Rights Movement by heading the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a black religious organization that directed nonviolent protests against segregationist authorities throughout the 1960s.The zenith of Dr. King’s career came on August 28, 1963 with his “I Have A Dream” speech, given at the …show more content…
The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system, and one of the leaders of the boycott, a young pastor named Martin Luther King Jr., emerged as a prominent leader of the American civil rights movement.There was also a big group called the KKK it was a bunch of white men who hated African Americans.The name of the Ku Klux Klan was derived from the Greek word kyklos,meaning “circle,” and the Scottish-Gaelic word “clan,” which was probably chosen for the sake of alliteration. Under a platform of philosophized white racial superiority, the group employed violence as a means of pushing back Reconstruction and its enfranchisement of African Americans. Former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was the KKK’s first grand wizard; in 1869, he unsuccessfully tried to disband it after he grew critical of the Klan’s excessive