Segregation in the US

Segregation In The US

Jim Crow law, in U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation (meaning that black and white people had different treatment, black people were not treated well)  in the South between the end of Reconstruction  in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s. Jim Crow was the name of a minstrel routine (actually Jump Jim Crow). The Supreme Court established the doctrine of separate but equal in Plessy v. Ferguson, 

What it meant :

laws requiring the separation of whites from “persons of colour” (person that were suspected to hae black ancestors even if they were ligt colour skin were considered POC)

It was humiliating and harmful to black people

Where

Pretty much everywhere. In schools, public transportation, restrooms, parks, cemeteries, theatres, and restaurants.

It was said that it was an equal seperation, to avoid black and white people to meat. But it was more for black people to be treated badly. In legal theory, blacks received "separate but equal" treatment under the law — in actuality, public facilities for blacks were nearly always inferior to those for whites, when they existed at all. In addition, blacks were systematically denied the right to vote in most of the rural South through the selective application of literacy tests and other racially motivated criteria.

The segregation began right after the civil war(1861-1865) . At the beginning it was only in few states before groing to most of the country. Then the Jim crow law was made

Black people were fighting this law. For example the law in lousiana that stated that they must be different cas in train for black and white people. A person homer Plessy and Daniel Desdunes, took the risk of buying a ticket and go in a wite car. Helped by a lawyer. They both ended up in court. But thanks to the 3 lawyers  Martinet ,Walker etTourgée ( lawyers that were against segregation) they didn't go to prison but Plessy lost in front of the court. 

In 1954 the Supreme, declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional, and, by extension, that ruling was applied to other public facilities.

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