Taking it a whole step further, the Ku Klux Klan, also known as the KKK, was formed in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee, to keep the Black vagrants off the streets. The KKK would ride around on horse back patrolling the roads while looking for Black vagrants and when they found them, it was not pretty; they would torture them by cutting off body parts and leaving them to die. During the 1868 presidential election, the Klan was very active in trying to keep the Black community from voting because their votes were very important due to their population size. During this time, violence was used quite often to keep the Black population oppressed and at the bottom of the social ladder. Between the years of 1866 and 1867, 500 White people were arrested
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One of the most famous examples of a railroad law being taken into effect was in the state of Louisiana in 1893 when a Black man bought a first class ticket but was denied entry because of his skin color. This led to the case of Plessy V. Ferguson, where the phrase “separate but equal” was created. This phrase meant that as long the Blacks are provided with equal facilities, they can be separate, however, the Black facilities were no where near equal. Black communities would have to build their own schools and then the government would provide teachers. In these schools, simple subjects such as sweepology and roastology, were taught to keep them from advancing in society. Shortly after the Plessy V. Ferguson case, twenty-one states will adopt the idea of separate but equal along with idea of segregation, also known as the Jim Crow Laws. In the 1890s, over two thousand Blacks were lynched in the South. These Jim Crow Laws were meant to degrade and dehumanize the African-American population and serve as a daily reminder that they were inferior to the Whites. In the Book “Sources of African American Past,” Garvin Fields, a Black female during this time period, said “The Jim Crow laws made friends into enemies over night,” (97). Pauli Murray also touched on the subject of the Jim Crow laws and how even though they say separate but equal, they were no where near equal and this
One of the most famous examples of a railroad law being taken into effect was in the state of Louisiana in 1893 when a Black man bought a first class ticket but was denied entry because of his skin color. This led to the case of Plessy V. Ferguson, where the phrase “separate but equal” was created. This phrase meant that as long the Blacks are provided with equal facilities, they can be separate, however, the Black facilities were no where near equal. Black communities would have to build their own schools and then the government would provide teachers. In these schools, simple subjects such as sweepology and roastology, were taught to keep them from advancing in society. Shortly after the Plessy V. Ferguson case, twenty-one states will adopt the idea of separate but equal along with idea of segregation, also known as the Jim Crow Laws. In the 1890s, over two thousand Blacks were lynched in the South. These Jim Crow Laws were meant to degrade and dehumanize the African-American population and serve as a daily reminder that they were inferior to the Whites. In the Book “Sources of African American Past,” Garvin Fields, a Black female during this time period, said “The Jim Crow laws made friends into enemies over night,” (97). Pauli Murray also touched on the subject of the Jim Crow laws and how even though they say separate but equal, they were no where near equal and this