Race Issues in America (1929-1990)
Race Issues in America
(1929-1990)
Slavery was abolished in 1863, but black people were still treated in substandard and inhuman ways by Southerners who agreed on freeing the blacks from slavery, giving them equal rights and allowing them to vote after losing against the North States in the American Civil War. And that obviously caused tension in the southern states because the relied mostly on black people (recent slaves) to work on and maintain their cotton and tobacco plantations.
However, South states ignored the constitution and introduced ‘Jim Crow Laws’ in order to keep their superiority against black people. These laws consist of segregating black people from white people in all public facilities like trains, buses, hospitals or even churches. Some of the black people were happy with that rule because it basically meant that they’re separated from the people who seek to harm and kill them, but when others argued against it, the corrupt Supreme Court would announce that what’s happening is legal or simply ignore their complaints.
Other laws would include not allowing black people to vote, although they’re legally able to. White supremacists intimidated and abused any black person who tried to vote.
As these activities were widespread, a lot of white people in southern states were keen to join the KKK (Ku Klux Klan), which is made up of only White Anglo Saxon Protestants who had regular day jobs as bankers, lawyers, doctors etc.
Members of the KKK would usually gather in evenings and march across the streets of the southern states in white robes and hoods, which symbolizes their supremacy and purity, to intimidate and kill any black person passing by, to maintain their ‘white supremacy’. Black people witnessed a lot of horrifying activities from the KKK simply for wanting to have a better life. KKK members would beat, rape and murder black people continuously. Most of their murders would be by their most common punishment that is lynching.
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(1929-1990)
Slavery was abolished in 1863, but black people were still treated in substandard and inhuman ways by Southerners who agreed on freeing the blacks from slavery, giving them equal rights and allowing them to vote after losing against the North States in the American Civil War. And that obviously caused tension in the southern states because the relied mostly on black people (recent slaves) to work on and maintain their cotton and tobacco plantations.
However, South states ignored the constitution and introduced ‘Jim Crow Laws’ in order to keep their superiority against black people. These laws consist of segregating black people from white people in all public facilities like trains, buses, hospitals or even churches. Some of the black people were happy with that rule because it basically meant that they’re separated from the people who seek to harm and kill them, but when others argued against it, the corrupt Supreme Court would announce that what’s happening is legal or simply ignore their complaints.
Other laws would include not allowing black people to vote, although they’re legally able to. White supremacists intimidated and abused any black person who tried to vote.
As these activities were widespread, a lot of white people in southern states were keen to join the KKK (Ku Klux Klan), which is made up of only White Anglo Saxon Protestants who had regular day jobs as bankers, lawyers, doctors etc.
Members of the KKK would usually gather in evenings and march across the streets of the southern states in white robes and hoods, which symbolizes their supremacy and purity, to intimidate and kill any black person passing by, to maintain their ‘white supremacy’. Black people witnessed a lot of horrifying activities from the KKK simply for wanting to have a better life. KKK members would beat, rape and murder black people continuously. Most of their murders would be by their most common punishment that is lynching.
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