Social Studies

Luna Wade

7 November, 09:45

In the 1950s, Jim Crow laws in many parts of the US created a caste system of legal inequality, in which White Americans and Black Americans lived by different and inherently unfair rules. Members of the civil rights movement held protests, sit-ins, and marches to oppose this legal inequality that eventually resulted in the Civil Rights Act, which eliminated much of the legal inequality. This is an example of