segregation is the unjust separation of people based on their gender ,race, religion, or class. This website will be based on the segregation of races. segregation was at its peak of existence during the 1800's through the 1900's.segregation was everywhere possible such as in places like schools, institutions for the blind, deaf, metal institutions, cemeteries, prisons, military units, boats, trains, hotels, waiting rooms, restaurants, elevators, hospitals, public bathrooms, pools, water fountains, churches, and a lot of other places. white people thought this kind of segregation was a good thing. They liked it better by being totally excluded from the blacks. Around the year 1887 the democratic party regained power the party put an end to reconstruction. Which made matters worse for the blacks. the government had ways to keep the blacks from voting by using poll taxes and Fees that were to high and literacy tests to see if they could read. By 1883 the Supreme court stated that the congress couldn't prevent private acts of discrimination ''.Basically cases such as Plessy vs. Ferguson proved that they could stop blacks from voting and segregation could be done".segragation usually came hand in hand with violence. mostly because the police and most legal systems were in favor of segregation. Some organizations were very violent such as the Ku Klux Klan or otherwise known as the KKK.The KKK dressed in white and performed acts of terrorism. They murdered more than a thousand or more black people. They also burned them alive, shot them, and mobbed them. Black codes- for 200 years the black codes limited rights of blacks. but in "1868 they abandoned laws that discriminated against blacks".
