Segregation And Racial Discrimination

Segregation in the United States began hundreds of years ago which eventually developed discrimination towards them. Discrimination has been and still an issue today and because of that, there are multiple laws and cases protecting all races in the United States. Segregation started as early as after the Civil War. The victory of the Union slowly improved the treatment of African American citizens. However, there are also laws approved later on to restrict their freedom unequally from the whites like the Jim Crow Laws and the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Many activists and protesters have fought to repeal them for better treatment and racial equality. Some were successful though some were not. Also, the end of World War II was the start of a new …show more content…
It means that blacks are segregated in all public facilities such as public bathrooms, schools, transportations, restaurants and drinking fountains, “In the South, segregation became the law of the land, a status quo that was upheld in 1896 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional” (GWU). This shows that African Americans still have equal rights as the whites but they are separated in certain places. There were also other rules that made that made black citizens difficult for them to vote, disenfranchising them. As the Jim Crow law had been successful in dividing them, most African Americans remained in poverty and working little labor with low …show more content…
Ferguson is a decision by the Supreme Court maintaining the Jim Crow Laws constitutional that the racial segregation “separate but equal” doctrine is much required. This case was brought about when in 1890, Louisiana passed a law that required separate accommodations on railroads for black and white passengers called the Separate Car Act. A group of black activists who want to take action, and repeal the act in 1982. A man named Homer Plessy is one-eighth African, bought a train ticket and sat in the “whites only” section of the train. He resisted to move when the conductor caught him. “Plessy was arrested for violating the Separate Car Act…Plessy took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the previous decisions that racial segregation is constitutional under the separate but equal doctrine” (Street Law). Even though Plessy could pass as white because of his skin color, he is still considered black. He and his group failed to challenge the segregation in Louisiana. This decision was set that separate but equal facilities will still be constitutional in the United