Jim Crow Law Dbq

In 1863 to 1877 Reconstruction brought an end to slavery, it paved the way for the former slaves to become citizens. The African Americans wanted complete freedom. However, that right became a setback and were seen as second class citizens. Before the end of the Reconstruction, a legislation was passed called the Jim Crow law. The law enforced the segregation of people of African descent. The legislation was a system to ensure the exclusion of racial groups in the Southern States. For example, separate transportation law, school division, different waiting rooms both at the bus terminals and hospitals, separate accommodations, marriage law and voting rights. The Jim Crow law was supposed to help in racial segregation in the South. Instead,

The law made the African Americans gave up their seats on buses, streetcars and trains to name a few. A case in point, in 1854 Elizabeth Jennings, a school teacher was the first African American, who fought against racial segregation. Elizabeth and her friend boarded a streetcar, she thought it was her right but thrown off by the conductor (American Hero Channel, 2015).

Housing developments had exclusive restriction signs to prevent both parties from trespassing on their premises. The restriction contributed to a social setback. It prevented both blacks, ethnic groups and the white from getting to learn about each other's ways of life. On the other hand, the restriction and segregation was a way to prevent interracial marriages a crime, causing racial discrimination.
Religion also played a role in racial discrimination in the South. According to a writer James Bennet in 1877, to 1920 New Orleans, white Methodist church became concerned about segregation in the South in regards to their church activities and establishment (Barker, 345). Although for the Catholics, they were integrated churches. They became worried about segregation in church activities. On the other hand, Bennet stated, the blacks remained equally with the whites in the church and shared the same mass. The whites disliked the idea and introduced segregation (345). However, for these churches segregation was not a religious issue but a social problem.

The answer served to the explanation of the establishment of the Jim Crow law, which is segregation in the Southern