CIVIL RIGHTS AND RACIAL SEGREGATION AND JIM CROW LAWS


Hey guys today Hanis and me , Usman  are going to talk about the African American in 1960's . So what happened to them was they were racially discriminated by the white people . To encounter the problem the well educated African American start to demonstrate and campaigning to achieve equal rights as an american. The campaign started when President John F Kennedy stated that he would want to pass the civil rights act in the 1960 . They campaigned at Washington DC with 250 000 people demonstrating . There were several assigned marshals to control the demonstration because they were suspecting the demonstration will lead to violence , but they choose the peaceful way by demonstrating peacefully . This is where the legendary speech of Martin Luther king speech were heard . I HAVE A DREAM ! This act and campaign have effect the civil rights and voting where all american have the same equal rights and law. The campaign was successful as African american is no longer racially discriminate now days . God bless america.

                                    this is martin luther king jr if you dont know him .

                                         

         the peaceful demonstration that were attended by 250000 fellow Americans in                                                                          Washington DC

After the Civil War, millions of formerly enslaved African Americans hoped to join the larger society as full and equal citizens. Although some white Americans welcomed them, others used people’s ignorance, racism, and self-interest to sustain and spread racial divisions.Racial segregation was a system derived from the efforts of white Americans in denying the African Americans to equal access of public facilities and ensuring that blacks lived apart from whites. During the era of slavery, most African Americans lived in South, mainly in rural areas. Under these circumstances, segregation did not prove necessary as the boundaries between free citizens and people held in bondage remained clear. Reconstruction after the Civil War posed serious challenges to white supremacy and segregation, especially in the South where most African Americans continued to live. Racial segregation, or Jim Crow as it became popularly known was the state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. It is a series of rigid anti-black laws operated between 1877 and continued in force until 1965. Jim Crow represented the anti-black racism. Whites were taught by Christian ministers and theologians that they were the Chosen people, blacks were cursed to be servants, and God supported racial segregation. blacks were often referred as niggers, coons, and darkies by Newspaper and magazine writers; and worse, their articles reinforced anti-black stereotypes. Jim Crow system was undergirded by the following beliefs or rationalizations: whites were superior to blacks in all important ways, including but not limited to intelligence, morality, and civilized behaviour. Blacks were violated and threatened as well. The most extreme forms of Jim Crow violence were lynchings. Lynchings were public, often sadistic, murders carried out by groups. This law ended when the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 officially ended the ability of any state to discriminate, disenfranchise, or otherwise restrict any individual on the basis of race.

So, thats basically our understanding what happened to the african americans in USA during the 1960s . That's all from us ! Hope you enjoy it . (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻