Segregation i USA i det 18. og 19. århundrede

My topic is “Segregation in the 18 and 19th century U.S”

I chose the topic “Segregation in the 18 and 19th century U.S” for the reason of it being a really big part of American history. It changed a lot in the country, but before 1865 it was different.

Civil war

The civil war lasted for 4 years. It was a fight between the northern and southern states. The southern states had a lot of slaves, but the northern states had fever slaves

The northern states wanted to make an end to that slavery, and the war began in 1861. In 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation, so there was no slavery in the country, but the war ended in 1865.

After the civil war ended, there were still people that hated the blacks, and they made a group called Ku Klux Klan. They killed innocent black people, and beat them up, and they were anonymous, because they had a mask and a costume on, so no one knew who they were.

Montgomery bus boycott

In 1876 the Jim Crow Laws segregated the blacks and whites in schools, hospitals busses and even restaurants. The blacks felt that it was unfair because they couldn’t sit in certain places. One day Rosa Parks was sitting on the bus in Montgomery, and the bus driver told her to give her seat up, but she refused. The bus driver fetched a policeman, so she could get arrested. That was when the bus boycott began. The boycott lasted 381 days, and then black people could sit where they wanted on the bus.