Can one man be the main destruction of an entire nationality ? During the mid 1800’s through the mid 1900’s Jim Crow was that man and along with Jim Crow there were segregation laws, Inequality, and unfair voting rights towards African Americans that has given America a dark history. Dating back to 1865 when segregation first begin to rear its ugly face in American society with miscegenation laws which tried to prevent black and white marriages. Those who did marry had to face life in prison. African Americans faced segregation with railroad travel, court testimony, jury, children's schooling, waiting rooms, hospitals, parks, and employment opportunities. With laws such as this whites and blacks avoided having any kind of communication and
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Jim Crow signs were placed above water fountains, door entrances and exits, and in front of public facilities. “There were separate hospitals for blacks and whites, separate prisons, separate public and private schools, separate churches, separate cemeteries, separate public restrooms, and separate public accommodations”. The Origins of Jim Crow." Jim Crow Museum: Origins of Jim Crow. Ferris State University, 2014. Web. 30 May 2016. In most cases the black facilities were more dirty, and rundown. In other cases there were no black facilities, no colored public restroom, no public beach, no place to sit or eat. States that acknowledge Jim Crow ignored laws passed which was a constitutional obligations to black citizens. Social and political control was needed by Jim Crow and his supporters to continue oppression and dehumanization of blacks as well as …show more content…
On election day In Clinton Mississippi “So when a Republican would come in to vote this fellow looked on the book and said ‘I cannot find your name here. Stand aside.’ They turned off 80 Republicans, one after the other, that way.” ( Dorothy Sterling, ed, The Trouble They Seen: The story Of Reconstruction in the words of African Americans) Dallas County civil rights activists attempted unsuccessfully to register blacks to vote at the county courthouse in 1963 and '64, but was unsuccessful. Protests began in 1965 in Selma Alabama to bring attention to voters rights issues, but with every protest and march they were met with violence. In 1965 Sheriff James Clark and his deputies used violence to end the protest, but voting right activist Jimmy Lee Jackson died from wounds inflicted during the march. On March 7, 1965 600 people began the first Selma march, but only got to Edmud Pettus Bridge where they was attacked by state troopers who used tear gas, nightsticks, and bull whips while on horseback. The state troopers forced marchers to return to Selma. Out of those 600 people walking 17 marchers were hospitalized. (Shedden, David. "Keeping Message Alive Increasingly Difficult.(News)." The Seattle Times ) ( "Civil Right Movement." Http://u-s-history.com/. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Apr. 2016. Although blacks were granted the
Jim Crow signs were placed above water fountains, door entrances and exits, and in front of public facilities. “There were separate hospitals for blacks and whites, separate prisons, separate public and private schools, separate churches, separate cemeteries, separate public restrooms, and separate public accommodations”. The Origins of Jim Crow." Jim Crow Museum: Origins of Jim Crow. Ferris State University, 2014. Web. 30 May 2016. In most cases the black facilities were more dirty, and rundown. In other cases there were no black facilities, no colored public restroom, no public beach, no place to sit or eat. States that acknowledge Jim Crow ignored laws passed which was a constitutional obligations to black citizens. Social and political control was needed by Jim Crow and his supporters to continue oppression and dehumanization of blacks as well as …show more content…
On election day In Clinton Mississippi “So when a Republican would come in to vote this fellow looked on the book and said ‘I cannot find your name here. Stand aside.’ They turned off 80 Republicans, one after the other, that way.” ( Dorothy Sterling, ed, The Trouble They Seen: The story Of Reconstruction in the words of African Americans) Dallas County civil rights activists attempted unsuccessfully to register blacks to vote at the county courthouse in 1963 and '64, but was unsuccessful. Protests began in 1965 in Selma Alabama to bring attention to voters rights issues, but with every protest and march they were met with violence. In 1965 Sheriff James Clark and his deputies used violence to end the protest, but voting right activist Jimmy Lee Jackson died from wounds inflicted during the march. On March 7, 1965 600 people began the first Selma march, but only got to Edmud Pettus Bridge where they was attacked by state troopers who used tear gas, nightsticks, and bull whips while on horseback. The state troopers forced marchers to return to Selma. Out of those 600 people walking 17 marchers were hospitalized. (Shedden, David. "Keeping Message Alive Increasingly Difficult.(News)." The Seattle Times ) ( "Civil Right Movement." Http://u-s-history.com/. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Apr. 2016. Although blacks were granted the