What Life Was Like Before The Civil Rights Movement And What More Needs To Change

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governments had passed laws to help blacks get economic and political opportunities. By 1877 the Democratic Party had gained control of government in the Southern states, and these Southern Democrats took away black advances and rights made during Reconstruction. They passed local and state laws that made certain places "For Whites Only" and others for "Colored." Blacks had separate schools, transportation, restaurants, and parks, many of which were dumpy, and poorly put together. Over the next 75 years, signs went up to separate the races in every possible place.
Segregation also includes the denying of voting rights, they called it disfranchisement. Between 1890 and 1910 all Southern states made laws making requirements for voting that were used to prevent blacks from voting. These requirements included: the ability to read and write, which disqualified the many blacks who had not had access to education; property ownership, something few blacks were able to buy; and paying a ...

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