But in 1883 the climax to the ruling came with the Civil Rights cases. The court "struck down" the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which had specifically prohibited segregation in public facilities such as hotels, theaters, parks, restaurants and streetcars.

Most blacks at this time neither escaped nor tried to overcome the cold white society. They managed to find other ways to their own economic and social improvement. All of this changed in 1856 when born to slave parents was Booker T. Washington. He worked his way through school and in 1881 founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, a vocational school for blacks. It was there he developed the philosophy that blacks' best hopes for assimilation lay in at least temporarily accommodating whites. One of the things that Washington strived was that "blacks should work hard, acquire property, and prove they were worthy of their rights. Whites including progressives welcomed Washington

Much of society at this time was altered by the changing ways of the African-Americans. The whites weren't ready to give up their throne, while the blacks were not going to stand around and let them demand and torture any longer. The built up anger in both of the races (especially the blacks) was what made the fifty's and sixties such a bumpy ride. Through and through the blacks stuck to their hope of the future and the future of their family and after much pain and suffering they are finally reaching their goal of equality. Even though society has a lot of work until everyone is equal and racism is no longer an issue, the African-Americans of today have earned the respect and honor of their ancestors, children, society and the history books for their grandchildren to read upon in years to come.

's policy of accommodation, because it urged patience and reminded black people to stay in their place.

In 1955, Rosa Parks, a department store seamstress and active member of the NAACP, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Many of the local black leaders chose to boycott the cities bus system and then Martin Luther King Jr. was elected as their leader. Here was the beginning of the protest of the series of Jim Crow Laws. These laws struck down the Civil Rights Acts, which prohibited segregation in public facilities. Therefore these Jim Crow laws-multiplied throughout the South, reminding African-Americans everyday of their inferiority to the white race. State and local laws restricted them to the reat of

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