Not all, but most history is a branch of myths involving how we slowly escalated to become the “society” we are today. Through every branch there is a pattern, whether that be how humanity came together to overcome environmental and social challenges or just a consistency of war and bloodshed. Of course, that is not all that happened throughout our history, but there are a few important particular moments in our history that we struggle as a society getting through particular situations. Such as the Jim Crow Act at which African Americans go through multiple challenging situations economically, politically, and socially. Even though slowly but eventually African Americans go through a repetition of servitude.
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The 14th Amendment granted African Americans three provisions: citizenship in America, the right to due process by the law, and equal protection under the law. Even with being given these rights, many could not fulfill the experience of these rights, due to not only southern states, but also northern states increasing the use of the Jim Crow Act. The overwhelming part about this was that this then eventually pushed for segregation upon color. Colored people were to be separated from the whites, getting essentially everything that whites would, but at a lower quality. The term that is frequently used is “separate but equal.” African Americans were to be relocated to their own buses, schools, housing, restaurants, barbers, hospitals, etc. If African Americans decided to use anything of the whites that was at their own risk of the possibility of being terminated. African Americans could not walk down the street without being reminded that they were seen as inferior to the white man. These segregational acts were legal, and were completely acceptable within the United …show more content…
Blacks were finally able to do what almost every other person could do in the United States, and that was to vote for their political leader. With that, there was a rise in violence coming from the Klu Klux Klan, who pushed for a stop upon African Americans from exercising their right to vote. Of course within time there were laws created to prevent the KKK from trying to oppress the blacks of their new rights. But even with the KKK being put on lockdown there were white vigilantes who sabotaged and harassed African Americans. There was also the Mississippi Plan, which took violence to the extreme. Which then lead to the creation of the Second Mississippi Plan which utilized legal action, and not violence, to stop African Americans from voting. With this new act there was a rise in poll taxes, and the form at which everyone would vote on, was at an academic level at which African Americans could not obtain to. With both a rise in taxes, and literacy challenges, most blacks decided not to vote all together.
With this African Americans could not exercise their Economic, Social, or Political freedoms without being faced with threats and legal barriers. With all these limitations that society brought upon African Americans, it then practically pushed them back into slavery. When you are given something such as freedom, you should be able to practice that new privilege.
During the time period of 1865 …show more content…
The 14th Amendment granted African Americans three provisions: citizenship in America, the right to due process by the law, and equal protection under the law. Even with being given these rights, many could not fulfill the experience of these rights, due to not only southern states, but also northern states increasing the use of the Jim Crow Act. The overwhelming part about this was that this then eventually pushed for segregation upon color. Colored people were to be separated from the whites, getting essentially everything that whites would, but at a lower quality. The term that is frequently used is “separate but equal.” African Americans were to be relocated to their own buses, schools, housing, restaurants, barbers, hospitals, etc. If African Americans decided to use anything of the whites that was at their own risk of the possibility of being terminated. African Americans could not walk down the street without being reminded that they were seen as inferior to the white man. These segregational acts were legal, and were completely acceptable within the United …show more content…
Blacks were finally able to do what almost every other person could do in the United States, and that was to vote for their political leader. With that, there was a rise in violence coming from the Klu Klux Klan, who pushed for a stop upon African Americans from exercising their right to vote. Of course within time there were laws created to prevent the KKK from trying to oppress the blacks of their new rights. But even with the KKK being put on lockdown there were white vigilantes who sabotaged and harassed African Americans. There was also the Mississippi Plan, which took violence to the extreme. Which then lead to the creation of the Second Mississippi Plan which utilized legal action, and not violence, to stop African Americans from voting. With this new act there was a rise in poll taxes, and the form at which everyone would vote on, was at an academic level at which African Americans could not obtain to. With both a rise in taxes, and literacy challenges, most blacks decided not to vote all together.
With this African Americans could not exercise their Economic, Social, or Political freedoms without being faced with threats and legal barriers. With all these limitations that society brought upon African Americans, it then practically pushed them back into slavery. When you are given something such as freedom, you should be able to practice that new privilege.