Civil Rights Coursework Sources Questions

... Civil Rights Coursework- Rough Draft James Ray-Leary 1a) Black Americans faced many disadvantages in the early 1950s. In the Southern states of the U.S.A, segregation was the biggest problem, the Jim Crow Laws made sure that there were separate transport services, schools, theatres, toilets and many other facilities that kept blacks from using the same services as white people. It is now widely accepted that the name for the Jim Crow Laws stems back from a minstrel show first performed in 1828 called 'Jump Jim Crow' by Thomas Dartmouth. The Jim Crow Laws were introduced in the 1870s after the Federal troops had withdrawn from the Southern states. The South was famed for its hard-line racist attitudes in the early 20th century, lynching of blacks was common and there were various white supremacist groups operating in the Southern states, the most famous one being the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). This particular group were

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