chareles hamilton huston attorney is credited for killing jim crow, what does this mean?

Answer 1

As special counsel to NAACP in 1935, Huston began a legal campaign to end segregation in public schools. His strategy included documenting the inequity between educational opportunities for blacks and whites and reinforcing the expensive price tag associated with separate and equal schools. He believed a broken “separate but equal” policy would eventually eliminate discrimination.

The strategy, of course, relied on individuals who had the conviction to stay the course. One of those individuals was high school student Barbara Johns of Farmville, Virginia. Johns organized a student strike against Moton High School in this quiet, Virginia town that prided itself on the cordiality of its race relations, while still adhering to the Jim Crow era’s segregated schools policy. She was outraged that more than 450 black students were crammed into a small, overflowing eight-room schoolhouse made from tar paper covered buildings, while their white counterparts enjoyed a modern facility with room to spare.

“We have a right to have a school as good as the white kids’ school,” Johns affirmed to fellow Moton High classmates. “We have to make a change, and I mean right now!” And so began a yearlong strike that would help change the nation.

Johns’s stance was not without consequences. The parents of many of the students lost their jobs with county departments, and many of the area’s teachers were out of work because of a lack of students. Some parents sent their children away to relatives because they worried for their safety.

Johns’s suit, eventually bundled with four similar cases from elsewhere in the country, became part of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education. In that case, the Court held that racially segregated public schools are inherently unequal and, therefore, unconstitutional. Chief Justice Earl Warren and a unanimous Supreme Court finally declared, “In the field of public education, the doctrine of separate but equal has no place.” Armed with this ammunition from the national courts, the Civil Rights movement would fight discrimination across all aspects of society for the next several decades.

Answer 2

Jim crow laws, were rules laws and traditions that kept blacks and whites separate from each other