Jim Crow Laws Thesis

Aaron Loya

Mr. Snell

English III

1/27/23

¨If there is no struggle, there is no progress¨ as said by Fredrick Douglas which thoroughly can describe the vigorous events and actions that occurred during the Civil Rights Movement. Constant prejudice, judgment, and unfairness throughout the United States occurred while African Americans were fighting for their rights to be treated as equals. With all things considered, the Civil Rights Movement was an extraordinarily important event to occur in the history of the United States because it allowed people of color, such as African Americans, to begin getting equal treatment and be treated as full people. Although slavery ended in America and African Americans were considered free, they continued

Once the amendment was passed, government officials located mainly in the southern part of the United States began to pass laws that were named ¨Jim Crow Laws¨. Jim Crow Laws were laws put into place to have African Americans remain as less than the White man with the exception of slavery being present. Segregation was a major factor of the Jim Crow Laws: it separated facilities such as schools and businesses and even simple commodities like water fountains. The facilities given to the African Americans were inferior compared to those of the whites, with most spaces being too small and unhygienic. The most prominent objective of the Jim Crow Laws was to not allow African Americans the right to

On August 28th, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and A. Philip Randolph and several other Civil Rights activists led a march that took place at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. . The event was created and was taken forth to bring recognition to all the challenges and inequalities African Americans were facing in America by having civil rights activists voice their opinions in speeches. Originally, Randolph had already accomplished his own March on Washington back in 1941, but with the rise of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in the mid-1950s, he caught the attention of Randolph and proposed another March on Washington to take place. Eventually, before the famous march took place, President John F. Kennedy met with the civil rights leaders and voiced his concerns and worries that the event would end up with violence, but the leaders insisted that the march must go forward. After some time, President Kennedy allowed the march to go forward but tasked the attorney general to be in charge of coordinating organizers and making sure the event went through safely. At the March on Washington of 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr spoke last at the event and that is where the famous ¨I Have a Dream Speech¨ was created. Dr. King´s ¨I Have a Dream Speech¨ was solely one of the most influential speeches and actions that took place