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The Jim Crow laws lasted from 1877 to 1954. these laws caused “separate but equal". this changed things to being called colored bathrooms, colored seating, etc. “These segregation practices affected every aspect of daily life, becoming enforced in professional offices, building entrances, schools, hospitals.” (1 Unknown). Lynching then became popular in 1882, this led to 3,440 black men and women being burned at the stake, shot, or beat to death. ( 1 Pilgrim). "All men are created equal" -
Mostly because of the widespread violence at the time, the NAACP was originally founded by an African American group. They organized an anti - lynching campaign in 1917, " some 10,000 people in New York City participated in an NAACP-organized silent march to protest lynchings and other violence against Black people."( 3 History). They still continue to this day fighting for interacial rights.
Quote - "I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral" - NAACP -
African Americans were permitted to enlist in the military during World War I. However, they remained largely separated while in training and even throughout most of the war since Jim Crow laws would still be in current existence. "The government made no provision for military training of black officers and soon created segregated training camps for that purpose" (1 unknown).
Quote - ".ours should be a navy family that recognizes no barriers of race, artificial color, or religion." -Admiral Elmo -
African American children and white children were separated in school due to the color of their skin. Brown believed that the education was unfair toward the African American children so he fought to make it equal. Though not going through it started many other events, "..fueled the nascent civil rights movement in the United States." (1 History). This led to the bus boycotts and many other movements.
Quote - "The doctrine of separate but equal has no place" - Brown -
His actions first started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white male. King then demanded equal seating on buses, "The demands included fair seating for all and courteous treatment by bus operators." (1 Gundy). King was thrown into jail for the boycott, and his house was bombed. King was later assassinated, but the movement went on.
Quote - "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation." -
The Civil Rights Act is the act that helped with segregation, and the ending of it. "The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, sex or national origin." (1 Unknown). Lyndon B. Johnson was the president at the time, and who agreed to sign the Civil Rights Act.
Quote - "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." ( Martin Luther King) -
The Voting Rights Act was an act that let African Americans the right to vote. " authorized the U.S. attorney general to investigate the use of poll taxes in state and local elections." Lyndon B Johnson also signed this act during the civil rights movement. This helped with the coming together after the segregation laws. Quote -" It is wrong to deny fellow Americans to deny any of your fellow the right to vote." ( Lyndon B. Johnson) -
Malcolm X was an African American Muslim. The reason he changed his name is that it originally was a slaveowner's name. Malcolm did many speeches and protests until one day he was assassinated by his own African American Muslim group because he noticed that what he was talking about was what the religion didn't want and they did not like what he was saying.
Quote - “Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. ... " Malcom X -
In 1968 African Americans were not offered the same things a white man was offered such as buying a house. There was discrimination when it came to them buying a house and people could deny them the right to buy the house they wanted. "The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to harass persons because of race, color, religion, sex" (1 Federal).
Quote- We refuse to believe there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of the nation. (King) -
Barack Obama was the first Black president of the United States of America. He was part of the democratic party He was elected in 2008. He made many acts like Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Re authorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010.
Quote - "Change we can believe in" Obama.