How Did Jim Crow Laws Keep African Americans From 1877 To 1950

From 1877 to 1950 there was a system that separated blacks from whites in every way possible. It ranged from blacks not being able to use the same bathroom to blacks not be able to use the same books. This system was known as the Jim Crows laws, named after a show called “Jump Jim Crow”. This show was about a white minstrel who would disguise herself as black to imitate African Americans. With this show growing it gave a lot of white people bad impressions of blacks (Blackpast 1). Unit all blacks were known to be inferior to all whites. It won't matter how rich or how smart blacks were there were inferior. Some whites even consider them animals. With equality being weak the south was able to get away segregation which cause a era discrimination.

On, April 9, 1865, United States’ deadliest war had ended. The Civil War was a war to make all blacks equal citizens of U.S.A. To meet this goal after north won the war the U. S Congress passed 3 amendment to try to make black people equal. The first amendment they passed was Amendment 13 which would be abolished slavery (American journey 1). The second amendment passed was Amendment 14 which extended citizenship privileged for American-born blacks. The third amendment passed was Amendment 15 which stopped the government from denying a citizen a right to vote no matter his race, or color. All of these Amendments were supposed to make black people “separate but equal”; (American journey 3). However, even after all these Amendments, equality was weak. Neighboring white town would move the voting box really far from black districts, so they couldn’t vote. This way blacks could not choose their representative. This went on until 1865 when blacks could no longer bear arms, voting and hold public assembling and eventually, blacks couldn’t use the same public facilities (buildings, property, and roads) like the bathroom, schools, house and etc (American journey 2). The commitment to equality became weaker and weaker. When minor efforts were made to tried to reach equality, the southern state legislature made a system to separate the races. This was called Jim Crow Laws. The Jim Crow Law was a law in the south that enforced segregation. Black people no longer could sit in the front of a train, they could not use the same public facilities and whites were superior to blacks in every way;for example, a white man could take any spot on a bus but the blacks had to sit at the back. If these laws were broken, whites would often lynch or beat the person that broke the law. Although the Jim crow law was not legal Until