His 125 Week 5 Due Day 7

HIS 125 week 5 due day 7

During the years of eighteen sixty five and nineteen forty five African Americans were treated very poorly. Many of their rights were taken away. Their rights were taken away from them by what is now known as Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws were started not long after the civil war ended and it continued to be a major threat to African Americans lives. Many Africans were lynched because of the laws. The government back then did little to nothing to put an end to the racial laws. Political activists such as Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, and even W.E.B. Dubois risked their lives for condemnation of the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws reminded people of a bitter period in history where the black people were segregated from the white people.

Directly after the civil war had ended, the southern states started passing black laws that were made to limit the freedom of black people. The black laws were called illegal by the government later on. Not long after the reconstruction period had ended the laws soon came back into effect which meant the blacks were once again segregated from the white people. It also took away their right to vote. It also took away their right to marry someone outside their own race. The racism after civil war was the number one contribution to the emergence of Jim Crow laws. The southern states had forced the black people to ride in Jim Crow cars. Other states even banned interracial marriages. Other states even restricted black people’s rights to vote by doing things such as imposing literacy test and even poll taxes.

By nineteen ten all of the states from the confederacy had imposed the segregation laws on all aspects of the black peoples’ lives The loss of their rights affected all aspects of black peoples’ lives, I say that because the black people were all served last in the stores or even banned completely from some stores. Black children could not even go to school with the white children. The...