Conclusion: The Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow Laws were a huge step back for African Americans, after working so hard to end slavery. The Jim Crow Law era lasted from 1876 to roughly 1965. The Jim Crow Laws were basically the approval of segregation a piece of paper. Many people who worked for the civil rights movement gave their lives to stop segregation. Some good examples are Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, and Viola Liuzzo. Their legacy lives on not just in the South, but in all of the United States today. When the Constitution of the United States was written in 1777, one could say that some of it was hypocrisy. Slaves, who were people, NOT property were given no rights and treated worse than the Americans were treated by the British. Yet the founding fathers who wrote this did not take that into heart and some of the most beloved of them (Thomas Jefferson) owned slaves themselves! No, it wasn't until a couple of decades ago that one could truly say that the Constitution fulfilled the nature of the United States. And one reason Americans can now confidently say that is because the Jim Crow Laws are eradicated from the United States forever.