Challenges Made By African Americans During The Reconstruction Era

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

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