Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation.

Many in our country believe that equality for black people was given Immediately following the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States.

That is far from the truth. For Black Americans, gaining the full rights of citizenship—and especially the right to vote—was central to securing true freedom and self-determination.

When Reconstruction ended in 1877, freed people had seen little improvement in their economic and social status.

This set the foundation for the racially discriminatory Jim Crow segregation policies that impoverished generations of black people. Jim Crow laws—which existed for about 100 years, from the post-Civil War era until 1968—were meant to marginalize Black people by first, denying them the right to vote.

A lynching is the public killing of an individual who has not received any due process. These executions were often carried out by lawless mobs, though police officers did participate, under the pretext of justice. Lynching’s were violent public acts that white people used to terrorize and control Black people in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in the South. Lynching’s typically evoke images of Black men and women hanging from trees, but they involved other extreme brutalities, such as torture, mutilation, decapitation, and desecration. Some victims were burned alive.

Walk a Mile in My shoes is an open discussion trying to bring the world together by understanding each other. We want to walk a mile in your shoes and hoping you can walk a mile in our shoes. I agree that a mile is a long walk but maybe we can learn to love instead of hate.

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