Jim Crow Laws

The Civil Rights didn’t just involve one law, but multiple laws and amendments. These laws and supreme court rulings helped desegregate public places. There are laws that gave African Americans a chance to have more freedom. That freedom could have been a definite right to vote or being able to go to whatever school they wanted to go to, but there were laws that didn’t always help them. Those laws that went against it or found a way around the Civil Rights act of 1866. There have been laws, acts, and amendments to help end segregation and then there have also been laws to encourage segregation.
The Jim Crow laws have discriminated in so many ways since it was created. These laws often kept African Americans from going into certain public places
When they became free they were able to vote, but white supremacist kept them from voting at the local courthouse or wherever voting was taking place. To counteract this states made up laws and acts or even included something in their constitutions that made it hard for African Americans to vote. In an article called Disenfranchising African Americans, the writer says “The disenfranchisement of African Americans after the Reconstruction era was based on a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices that deliberately were used to prevent black citizens from registering to vote and voting.”(Boundless 20,Nov.2016.). Some of these practices included literacy tests that were hard for them to pass and often were very unfair. These literacy tests often had latin somewhere in it. They often failed the test to be able to vote. The people giving the test often did not know any latin or anything in latin. The African Americans were able to vote without this discrimination. The Voting Rights of 1965 was able to end this. The writer in An article named Voting Rights Act (1965) says, “It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.”. This act was able to let African Americans vote with out discrimination from Caucasians or them stopping African Americans and other minorities from voting. They might have needed some
Some were able to progress towards the goals of what Civil Rights leaders wanted. Then there were others that didn’t help them whatsoever. Segregation wouldn’t have never happened or be as bad as it was if we actually could make laws that would be effectively forced. Instead we had laws that were useless and we had laws that were helpful. Those laws helped make America. Those laws helped to build up a strong race. A race that was determined to get equality. A race that continues to strive for equality for themselves and others. A race that was proud to end segregation through law and