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« In a bid to stop black Americans from being equal, the southern states passed a series of laws known as Jim Crow laws which discriminated against blacks and made sure that they were segregated (treated unequally) from whites.

Concerning this law I have taken a formal example A black man, Homer Plessey, took a railroad company to court because he had been made to sit in a 'coloured only' carriage. The case went to the Supreme Court who supported the railroad company. The ruling meant that the Jim Crow laws were legal and that it was not illegal to keep blacks and whites separate. Because of Jim Crow Laws- Blacks were excluded form all newspapers and from trading.

Negroes gradually lost jobs in government, which they gained after the Civil War. The most important is that The political system denied blacks the right to vote. Civil right activist During this period Black Americans had to 'struggle' for their right to equality.

In the 1950s a Baptist preacher named Martin Luther King became the leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

He believed that peaceful protest was the way forward.

For the black , it was the moment to prouved that it’is possible for them to fight non- violence .

they have organised many actions as in 1960 Sit-in Campaigns After having been refused service at the lunch counter of a Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, Joseph McNeill, a Negro college student, returned the next day with three classmates to sit at the counter until they were served. They were not served.

The four students returned to the lunch counter each day.

When an article in the New York Times drew attention to the students' protest, they were joined by more students, both black and white, and students across the nation were inspired to launch similar protests.

And many other protest have been organised in others city of the unites states as in 1961 *Freedom Rides is.

Groups of black and white students travelled on buses through the southern states choosing to sit where they pleased. At many stops along the way the group encountered violence but they refused to give up and continued riding the buses. La partie sur marin luther king n’ouuble pas les structures esclamatives Today with the election of barack Obama we can think that it’s a hope for the progretion in the relationship between white and black. »