Why were people treated differently because their color? A long time ago people were beaten half to death if they didn't want to pick cotton, then it went to being beaten and sprayed with jet hoses because they were black! Although some fought against this the best they could, but still the segregation and racism continued. Segregation is wrong because they are all human and being treated completely different when that's morally not right and it’s also wrong because people weren’t even following the law, they made their own laws and abided by those specific laws.
People were treated differently because of their race. White people tried to convince themselves that they were above blacks when in reality all people were made equally breathing
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These laws were embraced by white supremacists. “The country may have been ‘equal’ by the standards of Plessy v. Ferguson, but in reality, it was not equal at all’(Source 1). They were “equal” but not equal at all. The Jim Crow Laws didn't actually violate the laws but it didn't follow them either, they made things seem equal but they really weren’t. In addition to being equal but being unequal, source 1 also states that the Jim Crow Laws also stopped African-American voters from voting by requiring them to have the knowledge they weren't given the chance to learn. This further explains how people made their own law to prevent black people from doing anything further than what they’d done before. Additionally, this also explains how they tried to keep thing “equal by saying that both whites and black had to have and education, but this also isn’t equal the white people were given that education and blacks weren’t. All things considered, the white people kept things equal to a certain extent, they were able to prevent black people from doing things for a really long time until things changed almost 6-7 decades