FROM SEGREGATION TO WWII - Pre-historic evolution
Introduction
The history of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. can‘t simply be explained by only studying the events in the 1950‘s. One must also look at the periods of pre-historical development before the actual movement, because the segregation and discrimination of Afro-Americans, which is still present today in a some places in the world, go back a whole century.
The transport of enslaved African man in ships to American coasts started in the 18th century and existed for a very long time, and it would take the Civil War (1861-1865) and President Abraham Lincoln‘s Emancipation Proclamation (1862) to end slavery.
But for the purpose of this website, I will focus on the time after slavery had been abolished (1865), and when the "Jim Crow" Laws were introduced (1896), marking the first segregation laws and continuing until the 1960's, until the events of the Second World War.
The transport of enslaved African man in ships to American coasts started in the 18th century and existed for a very long time, and it would take the Civil War (1861-1865) and President Abraham Lincoln‘s Emancipation Proclamation (1862) to end slavery.
But for the purpose of this website, I will focus on the time after slavery had been abolished (1865), and when the "Jim Crow" Laws were introduced (1896), marking the first segregation laws and continuing until the 1960's, until the events of the Second World War.