Segregation in the History of the United States of America
Racial segregation, the practice of restricting people to certain defined residential areas or to separate institutions such as schools, churches, and Jim Crow laws, were state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. The laws, which came into effect after the Civil War, denied equal opportunities to black citizens. The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s for black Americans to gain equal rights under the historical context. people were kidnapped from Africa and sent to the Americas via the transatlantic slave trade; ~Civil Rights Act, 1964, comprehensive US legislation intended to end discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin. It is often called the most important American civil rights law since Paru Shah a, Robert S. Smith b, Legacies of Segregation and Disenfranchisement: The Road from Plessy to Frank and Voter ID Laws in the United States, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Official Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 1, Plessy v. Ferguson and the Legacy of 'Separate but Equal' Years February: No other ethnic group in U.S. history has endured the persistent residential isolation forced on Black Americans. the period spanning mid-century, approximately to. Residential segregation was used by federal, state, and local governments as a tool of racial domination in the United States for much of the century. Systematic racial discrimination in housing was unconstitutionally engineered and implemented by state and federal agencies. Jim Crow laws and racial segregation. Introduction: Immediately after the Civil War and the passage of the Amendment, most states of the former Confederacy adopted Black Codes, laws modeled on former slave laws. These laws were intended to limit the new freedom of emancipated African Americans through their Reconstruction 1865- 1877, the turbulent post-Civil War era, was the attempt to reintegrate the southern states of the Confederacy's million newly liberated people into the United States..