Diversity In The Jim Crow

African Americans have always had to face diversity, they were first brought to America by European settlers and forced into slavery, they had to endure lynching and discrimination even after slavery was outlawed. Jim Crow was the first step toward equal treatment for African Americans but the days of Jim Crow were terrible as it subjected African Americans to being treated like inferior objects. The diversity and discrimination that African Americans faced has not stopped it has merely evolved to be less apparent. African American are continuously fighting for equality which started with the NAACP fighting to stop segregation.

In 1954 when a girl named Linda Brown wanted to attend a school that was much closer to her home she was denied

The laws were enforced by white Americans who believed they were superior. Jim Crow made it so that everything was segregated, everything from prisons to schools. Certain states and cities had their own laws that made life even more difficult for African Americans, by 1914, Texas had six entire towns in which blacks could not live and in Mobile City, TX Black even had a 10 PM curfew. (A Brief History of Jim Crow, 2015) In all reality Jim Crow condemned black citizens to inferior treatment by white Americans but it was the start to blacks being given “equality” and led the way for further advancement in the equal rights to share a day of speeches, songs, and prayer. The March was initially intended to advocate the passage of the civil rights act but it had been stalled In Congress. Though equality was beginning to make headway, African Americans still faced economic and political repression after years of being treated as second class citizens. The march in Washington was an important part of the civil rights movement and many groups including the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference put aside their differences and came together for the March. On the day of the march the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King’s also gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. According to an an article printed by “Heads Up” the march was not such a great feat, the article demonized the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, referring to him as “Lucifer”, according to the article “the demonstrations have put Negros back economically by 75 years, and the Negro people would be better off if Rev. Martin Luther King and others would desist in their efforts.” (Heads Up, 1963). Those who were against equality made it known and created hate and brought a negative light to the positive things the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, the NAACP, and groups like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were