Segregation, Causes

The Jim Crow Laws segregated blacks from whites in almost everything in their daily lives. They segregated public restrooms, drinking fountains, education, and transportation. White children were able to ride the bus to school while the black children had to walk all the way to another school. Black people could ride public transportation as long as they were seated in the back away from the whites.  The Jim Crow Laws was created by white members of the Democratic Party between 1876 and 1965 so they could control political power in the Southern states.  The Republican Party was against slavery and segregation so they fought and won the fight against blacks not having the right to vote. President Rutherford B. Haynes ended Reconstruction and left the race issues with Southern Democrats. The Democratic Party was called “party of civil rights” which was wrong because they didn’t try and help the black people then the Republican Party was called the “racist party” which was wrong because they where the party that was strong advocates for the blacks.  Rosa Parks was an African American who refused the give up her seat for a white man and she was arrested for it. With her doing that she violated the city’s racial segregation ordinances and also started the U.S. civil rights movement. Segregation began because people are different on the outside, but they failed to know everybody is the same on the inside. Just because we look different on the outside doesn’t mean we don’t mean we think different, organs are different, or blood is different because they are not.