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Challenges Made By African Americans During The Reconstruction Era

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All around the world during the Jim Crow Segregation era, African American's resisted the unfair laws that was put on them. But do you know how African Americans in Louisiana resist these laws?The gains made by Black Louisianians during the Reconstruction Era was that black people got free. After years of slavery they was able to get free and even hold political power. But as the Reconstruction era came to a end, they face difficult challenges and unfair treatment like tenant farming and sharecropping. Black people lost all of their rights and people in power were segregating blacks and whites. There was laws that was placed on them and it stopped them from doing so much. For example, one law stated that no African Americans could get a haircut on a saturday. Another law was that if a black person was walking down the sidewalk and a white person was …show more content…

A free person of color named Homer Plessy was able to sue Louisiana's law for being unconstitutional after boarding a train car made for white people only. Plessy resisted again Jim Crow segregation by doing what seemed right and suing Louisiana law. According to the text it states "The following year, Homer Plessy, a free person of color, was arrested in New Orleans for boarding a train car reserved for white passengers. He sued claiming that Louisiana's law was unconstitutional. In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that it was acceptable to have separate facilities for Black and white people as long as those facilities were equal"This type of resistance is effective because it makes changes. Plessy was able to push for equal treatment and only got a tiny bit of it. This hurt people in power in Louisiana because it made them have to start treating people equally or legal actions could be taken. This helped those resisting by giving them a whole new way to

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“1940– McKelpin v. Orleans…sued…to make Black teachers’ salaries equal to white teachers salaries” - Document C. “ 1959-51 — Willie Robinson v. Board of supervisors of LSU…sued LSU demanding that Black students be admitted LSU.” Document C. This type of resistance is effective because your voice is heard and you’re fighting for your rights non-violently. It obviously hurts those in power because they now have to give some laws up and give slight more power little by little to colored Louisianans. It helped them be heard and gain equal amount and fairness for education.

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Between the periods 1865 and 1877, Reconstruction took place, a time in which the North and South spent rebuilding after the Civil War. However, Reconstruction primarily took place in the South since all former slaves were now free, meaning that millions of people now required things such as jobs, a house, food, etc. Reconstruction was especially fundamental because this time would be spent attempting to grant African Americans social, political, and economic equality, something that had been withheld for many years. And while Reconstruction was successful in providing African Americans with political equality, it failed to establish social and economic equality. When it came to political equality for African Americans, Reconstruction was successful.

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Plessy v. Ferguson was a tremendously monumental case for its time. Nearly 30 years after the civil war and the end of slavery, segregation was the new racial problem. Schools, churches, hospitals, and even restaurants were being segregated. Homer Plessy, a man that was one-eighth black, decided to take action. His act of “civil disobedience” was refusing to leave his seat in the white portion of a segregated Louisiana train.

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