The Laws of the Races

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A great deal of discrimination was put onto the African Americans, by the White Americans during the 1930s, intensifying many situations of the American society. The Jim crow laws has been the cause of the segregations that occurred between the races. The laws restrict the many rights of the African Americans. The goal of the Jim Crow laws was to limit the communication between the colored races and whites. (Henry Hampton) The Jim Crow Laws consist of many types of segregations which includes: segregation of public education, segregation of transportation, and segregation of public places which impacted the relationships between races.
To begin, many kinds of segregation in schools existed during the 1930s, even though African Americans won their equal rights from the civil rights movement. After all, the African American students were treated separately by the white Americans in all educated areas , yet they were still seen as equal, according to the constitutional law (Pilgrim). For Instance, children of colored races and white races must be taught apart from each other, during the 1930s, as a result of the Jim Crow laws.. The two races are often separated in public schools. African Americans would have their own school to be taught in while the white Americans had their own too (Pilgrim). For this reason, it is unlawful for white Americans to attend an African American’s school and for an African American to attend a white American’s school (“Jim Crow Laws”). In addition to the different schools that the two different races were taught in, many public libraries were a segregated place for people dealing with education (Pilgrim). The Jim Crow laws prevent the African Americans and whites to have physical contact as mu...

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...iscrimination has drastically decreased, compared to society as of now.

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