Part one of term paper
The civil rights movement is against segregation, the system of laws and customs separating blacks and whites that whites use to control blacks since slavery was forbidden in the 1860s. During this civil rights movement, individuals and civil rights groups have challenged segregation and discrimination with many things, including protest mar ...

Part two of term paper
... has been an attempt by white Southerners to separate the races in all parts of life and to have supremacy over blacks. Segregation is called the Jim Crow system, after a minstrel show character from the 1830s who was an old, crippled, black slave who stood for negative stereotypes of blacks. Segregation has become common in Southern states following the end of Reconstruction in 1877. During Reconstruction, republican governments in the Southern states were run by blacks, Northerners, and some Southe ...