How Did Jim Crow Laws Affect The Civil Rights Movement

Anyone who is not white must be exterminated from the face of the planet or thrown into slavery! That is what a racist jerk would say. But then again, no one would ever even consider listening to the racist jerk in the first place. Wrong. Threw out history, people of different color have been discriminated against again, and again, and again. Now that kind of discrimination has been abolished ,for the most part, here in the western society, known as the United States of America. And even though the U.S. is still sort of a crappy place to be because of how many stupid people there are in it, things have gotten better. But there might be someone reading who's wondering, "What were things like before?". Well, things sucked. Blacks, Native Americans,

However, even though slavery had ended, something known as the Jim Crow Laws came into effect and they stated that "separate but equal" was mandatory and just perfect. Well, it could've been perfect. If "separate but equal" was actually equal. Even then it would've still been despicable because it endorsed segregation, which hopefully everyone here knows, is just really freaking stupid. But then something happened. Something that changed all of this discrimination and segregation into equity and integration. And that something is called the Civil Rights Movement. The government had something to do with this movement to. Not in the good way though. For most of the time before the Movement, the federal government in the U.S. either just said they didn't care or that racism is great. In the end they changed (Obama's proof of that) ,but that doesn't change the past and how it affected the Civil Rights Movement. Especially when it came to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has made many decisions that impacted the Civil Rights Movement: Dred Scott v. Sanford. Plessy v. Ferguson, and Shelley v.

Ferguson. In this case, a law was passed where the railroads would have to furnish the separate accommodations for each race. When the law was passed, the "Citizens' Committee to Test Constitutionally of the Separate Car Law", found that the law went against three constitutional amendments. In an effort to get the law removed, they hired a Republican politician as their lawyer and went to the courts to get the law removed. The law was found unconstitutional and was repealed as a result. As a test case on the issue, Homer Plessy was "persuaded" to sit in a white car and was later arrested for violating the "separate but equal" clause. When he went to court, the first verdict was that the clause was unconstitutional. But the verdict was later appealed and John H. Ferguson ruled against Plessy. When the case finally reached the Supreme Court, Justice Henery Brown supported the Jim Crow laws, and Plessy had lost the case. This is a confusing case, but an influential one