Martin Luther King: The Nature Of Civil Rights

RULE: The court concluded that the segregation of African American school children “generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.”

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enacted that mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in southern states of the former confederacy. The blacks were said to be “separate but equal” and this separation led to conditions for the blacks that tended to be inferior to those provided for whites. Law-enforced segregation mainly applied to the southern United States whereas northern segregation had patterns of segregation in housing that was enforced by the covenants, bank lending practices, and job discrimination. For decades, this included discriminatory union practices for decades. The Jim Crow laws segregated public schools, public places, public transportation, restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains. Therefore, it did nothing to bring about social or economic equality.

The “separate but equal” doctrine was quickly extended to cover many areas of public life and encouraged many states to legally regulate all African Americans to an inferior status by enacting strict laws that were passed to forcibly separate blacks from whites in every sector of society including education, restrooms, hotels public transportation, sports, hospitals, prisons, and even cemeteries.

Actual laws are quoted from Alabama (1923), Louisiana (1956), and Mississippi (1945) to show the extent of discrimination and prejudice. An example of laws in Louisiana was that there should be separate facilities based on race. “All such sanitary facilities, eating places and drinking facilities shall be designated ‘FOR WHITES ONLY’ and ‘FOR COLORED ONLY’ respectively. Any person…violating the provisions… shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $100 or more than $1,000 and imprisoned for not less than 60 days or more than 1 year.” (Paragraph 5). The Jim Crow Laws made segregation legal and formalized in society; those who disobeyed were unfairly punished with fines or even

About a hundred years after the Civil War, almost all American lived under the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow Laws actually legalized segregation. These racially enforced rules dominated almost every aspect of life, not to mention directed the punishments for any infraction. The key reason for the Jim Crow Laws was to keep African Americans as close to their former status as slaves as was possible. The following paper will show you the trials and tribulations of African Americans from the beginning through to the 1940’s where segregation was at its peak.

Jim Crow Laws legalize racial segregation throughout the South. In Louisiana, the Separate Car Act forced black and white people to sit in separate railroad cars.

According to Merriam-Webster the word “segregation” was first known to be used in 1555. It is defined as the separation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group by enforcing or voluntary residence in a restricted area, by barriers to social intercourse, by separate educational facilities, or by other discriminatory means.

Segregation is the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. During segregation people of different races had to ride in different rail cars and attended separate schools. In two cases, Plessy V. Ferguson and Brown V. Bored of Education, the Fourteenth Amendment was argued. The outcome of these two court cases effected African Americans and their fight against segregation. These two court case are similar in their fight for a cause because they challenged the meaning of the same law, but different in their outcome.

Segregation is the separation of different groups of people based on their ethnicity, or religion, by society. In 1957, nine African Americans students attended Little Rock High School, which was an all-white high school. These African American students wanted to have equal opportunities just as white people did, and decided to do something about it. Desegregation encouraged other people to fight for their rights, and stand up for what they believed in. This event led to the integration of the Little Rock High School. The integration of the schools improved the quality of the education that African Americans were getting. Desegregation of Little Rock High School also had gotten rights enforced by the law, which is the “separate but equal”

After the civil war, many couldn’t grasp around African-Americans being free, so Southern states passed segregation laws in order to restrict their autonomy. In a court case in 1896

During the first half of the twentieth century segregation was the way of life in the south. It was an excepted, and even though it was morally wrong, it still went on as if there was nothing wrong at all. African-Americans were treated as if they were a somehow sub-human, they were treated because of the color of their skin that somehow, someway they were different.

The segregation laws of the United States were aimed mainly at African Americans. There were multiple reasons for this, although none of them were any good. They were fueled entirely by fear, hate, and a societal prejudice passed down through generations. All of these things were aimed at African Americans, and if a law could be made to enforce them, it usually would be. For years, this was accepted as perfectly fair and legal. In this writing, I will find the various reasons that these Jim Crow laws were made.

Segregation was an attempt by white Southerners to separate the races in every sphere of life and to achieve supremacy over blacks. Segregation was often called the Jim Crow system, after a minstrel show character from the 1830s that was an old,

Just laws are laws that don't belittle anyone, however unjust laws do, they degrade human personality, and that is a major distinction between laws that are fair and unfair. Segregation is an example of an unjust law because it is a major contributor to the inferiority felt among people of African descent. As stated in the text," All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the human personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority (King 12). Segregation is a prime example of how unjust and just laws differ in the sense that unjust laws damage the human personality and just laws do not. The segregation statues only served as a reminder

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