held their own services in secret
Southern laws that imposed restrictions on African Americans were called Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws prevented southern African American from truly have equality with the white counterparts.
Jim Crow laws kept African Americans and whites from mixing in the South in public places.
Jim Crow
After the Civil War the 15th Amendment was passed that African American males were aloud to vote. This caused many secret southern organizations to sprout up including the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) that would terrorize African Americans. The members of the KKK believed that African Americans were lower then them and they believed in anti-communism (people not being equal to each other) Also since slavery was abolished (gotten rid of) because of the Civil War (13th Amendment that was passed that stated slavery be abolished) African Americans had to find a new way of life, they had to get jobs and live their own lives. They were no longer considered property of another person. Basically African Americans were terrorized by people who believed equality was wrong, and African Americans had to start their own lives and become their own people, no longer having an owner. Hope this helps! :)
the fugitive slave law
The series of laws passed that effectively restored slavery for African Americans in 1865 were known as the Black Codes. These laws were enacted by Southern states following the Civil War and aimed to restrict the freedom and rights of newly freed slaves, essentially creating conditions similar to slavery.
one of a g group of laws that controlled every aspect of enslaved African americans.
After reconstruction, Jim Crow laws were passed. These laws made it difficult for African-Americans to move upward.
held their own services in secret
Jim Crow laws
The Jim Crow laws
African-Americans originally came to the US as slaves, but slavery was abolished around the end of the American Civil war. (Slavery officially ended on December 6th, 1865) However, most of the Southern White population did not like this change, so they used racist laws (such as the Jim Crow Laws) to "keep the blacks in their place". The white population believed they were superior to the black population, so they enforced racist laws and restricted their rights.
The laws prevented white nurses from working in hospitals that admitted African Americans
Slavers. In the 1880's the African American Americans worked as slaves.
Various politicians and individuals in the Southern states helped pass laws that institutionalized the enslavement of African Americans, including state legislatures and plantation owners who benefited from the system of slavery. Additionally, the U.S. government passed laws such as the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required the capture and return of escaped slaves.
They were important because it proivited african americans to vote...... They were anti black laws tht prevented african americans to participate in society