After the American Civil War, most states in the south passed anti-African American legislation know as the Jim Crow Laws. These laws were severely discriminant towards the African Americans and believed they should be "separate but equal" (Plessy v. Ferguson) These laws separated the whites and blacks in public places such as schools, restrooms, hotels, cinemas, and transportation. Even drinking fountains were distinctively "white" or "black only!" These awful laws were finally ended and over-ruled by Brown V. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Acts.
Not only did white Americans put the African Americans through those unfair laws, they also made them constantly fear for their lives. Two ways they did this was by the use of lynching and the group of the gruesome Klu Klux Klan. (KKK) "The Klu Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy." "Lynching was an execution carried out by a mob (usually the Klu Klux Klan) often by hanging, but also by burning at the stake or shooting. The Klan killed over 3,446 in over 86 years by the method of lynching."
Source: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkkk.htm
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