How Did Jim Crow Laws Affect The Civil Rights Movement

During this time in age reconstruction and the western expansion was going on.to act. The fact that blacks had limited access to do anything later down the road “only a few blacks even served in Congress in the 1880s and 1890s” (pg.523). This was the beginning of the Jim Crow Laws. They also had a Poll Tax Liberty Test basically this test was rigged, which made it unfair to blacks. Therefore “at the end of the reconstruction in 1900 African- Americans owned only a small percent of land” (pg. 522). By 1940 only about three percent of blacks had voted. Which really isn’t that much of a vote. There were black’s experiences, black’s life in the South, “and in most disadvantaged rural southerners, black famers suffered the most from the region’s conditions (pg. 522)”. Not much has changed because blacks are still struggling to get respect, voting rights, and becoming their own. Then it led to African-Americans going to Kanas, to seek political, equality, freedom from all the violence, and to also seek a higher education. It was important for African-Americans to seek a higher education, so they can be educated and to get the respect they have always wanted.
This is when the civil rights movement happen and that’s when Washington and Du Bois came into play. Washington was the spokesperson for the whole black community. Washington’s focus was a better education for blacks and progressing in social, economic and equality. Washington was more of a realist he believed that if you work hard you could achieve anything. With Washington being born into slavery he knew and had an idea of what could be done and what couldn’t be done. He saw what the future could be like instead of just thinking he woke up that morning and change has