Laws don't change attitudes In America was it allowed to have black people as slaves for a long time. This changed in the 19 century with the change of the 13th Amendment, which forbid white people to have them as slaves. After this the black people became more legal rights by the legal system, but this didn’t changed the attitude from white people about blacks, because they were still thought as more worth than blacks. The legal system treated black people inferior in conflict to white people, because laws don't change the attitudes from white people about black people. Rosa Parks got arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to move for a white person. Rosa Parks was on her way home with the bus when she was sitting down in the colored section, one row behind the white section. When the white section got filled the bus driver told her to move for a white person, because the drive thought that he has the right to move the “line” between the white and colored section. He thought that it is alright for a black person to have no seat instead for a white person. After Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to the white person the bus driver called the police and Parks got arrested. Rosa Parks haven't done
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The change of the 15th amendment made clear that it is not important which skin color or race you have. The only condition you needed to proof was that you are able to read. To proof your reading skill you needed to read something in front of the workers. White people became a very easy text which they had to read. The text was that easy that they were able to memorize it. Black people instead had to read something out of the constitution, which was extremely difficult. That made it almost impossible for blacks to make use of the right to vote. White people did this, because they didn’t wanted blacks to vote. They also wanted them to see that they are not that educated than white
The change of the 15th amendment made clear that it is not important which skin color or race you have. The only condition you needed to proof was that you are able to read. To proof your reading skill you needed to read something in front of the workers. White people became a very easy text which they had to read. The text was that easy that they were able to memorize it. Black people instead had to read something out of the constitution, which was extremely difficult. That made it almost impossible for blacks to make use of the right to vote. White people did this, because they didn’t wanted blacks to vote. They also wanted them to see that they are not that educated than white