Southern Segregation (1877-1965)
No single person is exactly like another; not in the way they look, talk, or think. If that is true than why does one race get to decide they are better than someone, that they somehow deserve less rights than another because the color of their skin instead of the thoughts in their head. In 1865 slavery was abolished in the United States and all African Americans were relieved of their involuntary servitude to white Americans, although it was a step towards freedom-black Americans still did not receive the same rights as white Americans for almost 100 years after.
In those 100 years the South coined the term "Jim Crow" after a famous caricature of a black man dancing that later became another way to say "Negro". With the popularity of the cartoon of Jim Crow rising it became the mascot for the southern laws of racial segregation against blacks, later know as "Jim Crow Laws". Blacks were separated from whites in public places like restaurants, libraries, schools, etc. and sometimes were charged to do things white people could do for free. They were treated inferior in every day life and were forced to fight for basic human rights that whites were born into. The eventual full freedom of African Americans wouldn't have been possible without the people who dared to rise up against the system. People like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and many more people who has a vision of a world better than their own time. Many court cases took place that questioned and exposed the judicial system of the US south. By 1964 Lyndon B Johnson, the president after Kennedy's assassination, signed the Civil Rights Act that ended the segregation of any race, gender, or religion in public places. Legally this was the end to segregation but still today people judge for race, gender, and religion. Here is a video showing the ridiculous laws set for African Americans --------------------------------------------> |
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