Prejudice+&+Segregation

=﻿Jim Crow Laws= Jim Crow was actually a chacter of an old folk song. He was made by a white comedian named Daddy Rice. Jim Crow was made to make fun of black people and the way they talked. The Jim Crow laws were then made so black people wouldn't be equal to white people. Because of the Jim Crow laws black people were taken out of the newspaper, trading, and in the government. While whites owned the land, the police, the government, ect. Also they wouldn't let black people vote. Murders were being conducted by a group of white people called the Ku Klux Klan because of this blacks were harassed physically and verbuly. This now became part of their lifes. Finally to make things worse there were signs that said whites,colored or negroes all around in the bathrooms,fountains,ect. This is what Jim Crow laws caused for blacks and whites.

=﻿**The Ku Klux Klan**=

The First Klan
The 1st [|Ku Klux Klan]was founded in [|Pulaski, Tennessee] around 1865. The schemes were brought about by veterans of the [|Confederate Army]. Although the it never reached an organized local structure, members of the southern states believed it was a nation-sweeper.The Klan reacted against Radical Republican control of [|Reconstruction] by attempting to restore white supremacy by threats and violence, including murder, against [|black] and white [|Republicans].

The Second Klan
The 2nd Klan came around 1915-1944 by Will Simmons and outside Stone Mountain, Atlanta Georgia. This Klan had a book written about them and it was Called "//__The Birth of a Nation.__"// It was written to glorify them. Along with certain devious schemes to elliminate blacks and christians, Leo Frank was lynched brutaly, hung by a tree! Which then followed many vigilant and violent attacks in southern USA.

The Third Klan
The 3rd Klan came around in the 1970-1990's. They had many past crimes one inperticular in 1980 was the shooting of 4 elderly black woman. In 1981 the FBI found they culprit, Michale Donald. He was lynched. Then soon after they found they other 3 men and had them sentenced to death. When the Lawsuits came down, the KKK used them as a tool to prove innocence. Opon thus, they failed.

the down fall of the KKK was in Meriden, Ct for a speech in ceppa field. People came from many states to here the "//White Knight of Jusitice."// But when they said one wrong thing, the bricks were flying. Then a boy got hit by a brick and the mobs went crazy. 10 men were killed, 15 men sent for life in prison. After that men were killed in every state. in 1991, the KKK in the USA perished.

The KKK was willed out because of embarcement and indignity, but the hurt in action people will never forget the pain they caused. =﻿The NAACP=

The NAACP ( The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) helped fight segregation, but their battle lasted long. The congress and many others didn't want changes to be made. As a result they fought for about a century. The heads of the U.S. said schools and public places for black and white people was equal, but they lied. Many African American school were run down and smaller. Children at the age five and up had to walk past at least five white ones before reaching their own. The teachers were a much smaller salary compared to the teachers at the other schools. The NAACP had many court cases against the laws that made children have to be seperated just because of their skin color. University owners and other groups supported them. The NAACP were given thousands of dollars a year by these people. One group gave the comitee up to eight hundred thousand dollars. In those day s people found it hard to come by that much money. A whole group of lawyers stayed with the commitee for a couple years. The efforts of the NAACP changed laws and helped win against segregation. It helped build the path for future generations. Segregation will always have its mark on America.

Sources [|www.wikipedia.com]