Segregation
Alaina Parish
Need to Know Information!
- Segregation is a separation of services/ opportunities because of race.
- Jim Crow Laws were laws that denied basic rights to people of color.
- The laws were called the "Jim Crow Laws" because he went on stage at a popular white minstrel act, and dressed as a black man and made fun of blacks.
- Segregation separated blacks and whites from doing anything together.
- The Southern legislatures passed laws known as the black codes, which severly limited blacks' rights and segregated them from whites.
Event List
"No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks stood up for everything she believed in. A white man got on the bus she was on, and immediately demanded Rosa got up so he could sit down. "NO!" she said. She was firm. This act of Rosa's was the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which in the end was successful and has brought us to where we are today.
"I Have a Dream."
On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his eventually life-changing speech, "I Have a Dream." This speech moved African Americans worldwide, and just helped them become more determined for success, segregation and equal rights. His dream was to see unity in the people of our country, which is now a reality.
" A Man Who Stands for Nothing Will Fall for Anything."
On December 20, 1956, the Montgomery Bus Boycott paid off and a federal ruling took effect stating that the bus segregation that had been going on, was unconstitutional.