The Civil Rights Movement

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SEGREGATION
Whites in the South were determined to control the South as they had always controlled the South. Although the reconstruction finally ended in the South, laws know as the Jim Crow laws went into effect. These laws were put into effect to keep African Americans from getting jobs and just getting the same rights that other white people received in the South. The Jim Crow laws were a system of legal separation or segregation. Many African Americans were forbidden to use public bathrooms, go to the same school, to stay at the same hotels, or to even eat at th…