The Jim Crow Laws

Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans in southern states lived and unequal world by taking the right from them, segregation and other types of abuse. Thanks to Jim Crow laws blacks were not allowed to go to classrooms, bathrooms, theaters, train cars, juries, legislatures and much more. In 1954, the U.S Supreme Court struck down the “separate but equal” by drawing signs that said “colored” and “white”. Then in the destructive decade and a half, civil rights activists used nonviolent protest and civil riot for change. So therefore, the civil rights movement was the catalyst for definite change for minorities and the poor.

When the last federal troops left the south in 1877, Southern governments rapidly fell back under the control of racist whites. These racist whites wanted to keep blacks and whites separated so they created Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws were responsible for separate restaurants, water fountains, bathrooms, schools, hotels and many more. By the 1890s, most of the effect that blacks had made during Reconstruction had left. Many blacks were poor because of job discrimination; whites would not hire them for good jobs. The name Jim Crow was ironically a white man’s imitation of a dancing and singing black stablemen.

On December 1st, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white men on a Montgomery bus. For that she was arrested and fined. 4 days after and the same day of Parks court hearing the Montgomery Bus Boycott began. The boycott began on December 5th, 1955 and ended on December 20, 1956. During the Boycott many blacks got car rides from friends and hitchhiked. They also organized carpools and Afr...

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...ral Courts supported the ruling, but accepted southern delays .The result of all that was that school desegregation happened very slowly. Without good and strong federal support the ruling was such a disappointment and nobody really expected that to happen.

The Montgomery started a new phrase of the Civil Rights Movement. The success of the phrase showed people how effective organized, quiet protest could be. In the following years, the strategy of nonviolence became the spotlight of the movement. Martin Luther King Jr. was the best civil rights leader to spread the idea of nonviolence. MLK got the word out to the people.

King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929; he was the son and grandson of Baptist ministers. A bright student, entered college at the age of fifth teen. Then three years later he graduated and entered a seminary to study to become a minister