Plessy And Jim Crow Laws: Racial Discrimination During The 20th Century

Racial Discrimination

One major event I feel had significant impact on how America was redefined during the 20th century is racial discrimination. Americans thought that African Americans should not have equal rights. In the 20th century, there was racial things still going on and African Americans were still abuses by the laws and segregation. Jim Crow Laws, which regulated social, economic, and political relationships between whites and African-Americans, were passed principally to subordinate blacks as a group to whites and to enforce rules favored by dominant whites on non-conformists of both races (Jim Crow Laws.pdf 1) Jim Crow laws are laws that are specifically for African Americans. They discriminate African Americans and they separate

He had to get on the black train cart. It went to the U.S. Supreme court. The majority opinion voted against Plessy, but, one of them didn’t vote. The majority of the court said it was separate but equal law. They said it doesn’t interfere with the 13A which abolished slavery. They said “We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority.” (Plessy v. Ferguson). They are saying that African Americans are making themselves unequal to everyone else. Justice John Marshall Harlan didn’t vote said “ The Thirteenth Amendment does not permit the withholding or the deprivation of any right necessarily inhering in freedom. It not only struck down the institution of slavery as previously existing in the United States, but it prevents the imposition of any burdens or disabilities that constitute badges of slavery or servitude.” (Plessy v. Ferguson). Justice Harlan is right because colored people should be allowed to do whatever whites

Board of Education, they finally had less discrimination but people still get discriminated today. You should know that people didn’t get paid for working. They had to work all the time. They got raped and beaten and sometimes they even let them starve to death. Would you like to be treated like that? People sometimes didn’t even get a place to stay and if they were lucky enough they might get a shelter. They had to do everything for nothing. If they didn’t do what they said they might kill them or something. This was before the thirteenth amendment. In the 20th century, colors were not allowed in white bathrooms. They had to go outside normally that's where the bathrooms were. They had a colored section and a white section because they weren’t allowed to be in the same place. Like in the Brown v. Board of Education case colors weren’t allowed to go to the same schools. In Plessy v. Ferguson case, they had colored train carts and white train