...Segregation in United States By:Mekihya Hudson Hi my name is Mekihya and i’m going to be telling you about Martin Luther King .Okay so let’s get started so , most thing about it is that he didn’t want anything to happen to his kids when they get older so he protested for black people not only black people he protested for everyone even though white people hated black people we all have equal love for everyone but it don’t make sense because we all are the same but different colors god put all of us down here on earth for a reason that reason is for everyone to love each other equally so Segregation in united states.Segregation was a racial movement where white people treated black people...
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...A Time of Segregation The 1930s through the 1980s were a hard for all colored people. In the 1930s after slavery was ended the whites still treated the blacks like they were nothing. Segregation was a huge problem for a long time, many blacks were treated like animals, they were also killed by the white people and justice would not be served, also they would get the worse equipment for everything. The main reason segregation was such a big problem is because the blacks were treated like they were still slaves. Even after the civil war ended slavery the whites in the south and the north still hated the blacks for being of another color. They were treated with no respect even though they had the same rights. They still had to give there respect to the white out of fear. They didn't have a choice cause they knew that they could be killed and no one would care....
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...Segregation has been prohibited in the United States since the mid 1960`s. Not only is it banned in schools but in the workforce as well. With the issue of discrimination still playing a big roll in todays society, the lower class lacks benefits in the educational system in terms of opportunities. The quality of education given to a “minority” is very poor. The amount of minorities in the United States is constantly increasing and will either contribute to the success for the nation or cause major failure. With that being said, why should they not be provided with the same education and career opportunities as the “higher class”? Women generally have what is called a pink-collared job, while men have a blue-collared job. A blue-collared...
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...people. Everything was segregated. If you were black, you had to go where blacks go. If you were white you had to go where white people go. White people could get anywhere they wanted. Meanwhile, blacks were blocked the luxury of the whites. Blacks wanted the same and equal rights as the white. They wanted the same fancy schools as the white. Same drinking fountains as the white. And so forth and so forth. But americans with white skin, did not wanted that. Mostly in the South, they wanted to be separated. No mixing the races. No integration. But when the Supreme Court declared that segregation is unconstitutional. There was chaos in the U.S. The chaos was mostly on the South where congress from the states from the south burned the new law about Civil Rights. And it begins the story of Warriors don’t cry and Remembering the Titans are 2 different schools in the south integrating. 2 schools miles or states apart. But were having the same battle. Integration of public schools. Whites and blacks in the same classroom and learning the same subject together. But this was on the south. Many segregationist objected this idea. In one school from Warriors don’t cry by Melba Pattillo-Beals, which the high school name is Central High. The first day of integration in Central High there was too much commotion. There were segregationist were around the school trying to stop the 9 african-american to go to Central High. In Remembering the Titans in Virginia the black school was closed, they had...
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...Before JFK was elected in 1960, segregation was a huge problem. In most southern states you would have to pass a literacy test to vote (JFKlibray.org staff). Southern states did this intentionally because they knew seven out of ten blacks were illiterate (nces.ed.gov). Even though preventing blacks from voting was declared unconstitutional Mississippi still made laws to hinder the blacks from voting. For example, the state of Mississippi passed a poll tax, you had to pay taxes for two years to be able to vote (“Race and Voting in The Segregated South”). Since most blacks didn't pay taxes they couldn't vote. Segregation wasn't the only thing blacks had to worry about. Many black would get attacked just walking down the street. One instance is that teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered for seemingly no reason (“The Kennedys and Civil Rights”). Even when blacks would peacefully protested, they would still get brutally beaten; such as when protesters tried to march from Selma to Montgomery they were stopped by policemen and brutally attacked, 50 of the protesters were critically injured (“Civil Rights and Nonviolence”)....
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...The Jim Crow Laws were local and state laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern States in the United States. Segregation was based on skin color, and based on the idea that “blacks were inferior and subordinate class of beings”. The Jim Crow laws were very strict and did not give freedom to blacks. They segregated whites away from black through all forms of contact with whites. Blacks were discriminated from whites and were only used as slaves. The laws originated from the Southern and border states. Many southern states passed laws to discriminate blacks from whites and made them slaves. The Jim Crow laws originated from a white actor named Thomas Dartmouth Rice. He was a struggling actor that would paint his face black and preform...
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...Will everyone ever be treated equally in the future? Racial segregation has gone away and the world has become an equal place. Yet one may see racism all over America. In the future there will be no racism and everyone will be equal. Prior to today, African Americans along with other races were discriminated and put to shame because of the color of their skin. Slavery started as early as 1619 where people of color were treated as animals. When the civil war came in 1861, in a population of twelve million, four million were slaves (Contributors, Wikipedia). According to Samantha Siddique, “discriminatory laws barred them from voting and owning property.” One of the laws was the John Crow law, this law “made it legally acceptable to force African Americans to use separate washrooms, entrances, water fountains, schools, and transportation” (Segregation Facts). After all African Americans were treated as non humans throughout history....
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...Jim Crow Laws In the years 1870-1950 all colored people had to follow the Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws were laws enforcing racial segregation in the southern United States. The Jim Crow laws consist of different schools, entertainment, freedom of speech, health services, housing, Libraries, marrige, transportation, socialization, and many other things for African Americans to follow. The main separations are schooling,health services, and transportation. For example, Jim Crow laws were created for a “separate but equal” treatment. Colored people had to have their own schools because the white children did not want to go to school with colored kids. And if a white person married a colored person their family would technically disown them. Most African Americans had to have a very bad health condition in order to go to the hospital. Most babies had to be born in houses. Colored people would have to do their job perfectly or they would get fired. Blacks would have to call all whites miss or mister. Even children would have to call whites miss or mister. Even the schools were different....
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...struggles before getting rid of segregation. First, World War II have given more blacks advantages in the society to gain more opportunities in a workforce and was able to help in the war. Later on, during the cold war United States promoted the idea of democracy was more superior than communism because people have more freedom. Consequently, the Supreme court was able to push the civil rights movement to make even more progress for integration. The Civil Rights Movement was able to make significant gains when it did because world war II and the cold war tensions pressured the United States to make reforms to its race policies. The United States claimed democracy was superior to communism, but racial segregation in the South made this assertion appear untrue. Moreover, the decisions made by the Supreme Court reflected these Cold War values, as the court decisions during the Civil Rights Era linked democracy and racial integration. Many would argue that the cold war did not do much to actually help the civil rights movement. The leaders do not seem to be actually fighting for their rights, it was more like the people that actually were trying to make more progress in the Civil Right Movement. As Malcolm X said, “The Negroes were out the streets. They were talking about how they were going to...
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...In 1954 the American Civil Rights Movement ignited because of racial segregation and violence, which ended in 1968 (History.com Staff). During the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was an activist for civil rights. Dr. King was negro, at the time of the civil rights movement people who were negro had few to no rights. On the 12th of April 1963, Dr. King receives a letter from eight clergymen. In the letter, the clergymen tell Dr. King to stop protesting and leave the segregation to the courts (Carpenter et al. 1). When Dr. King receives the letter, he is in jail for starting protests. In the letter Dr. King writes, he includes examples of logos. Dr. King explains that he is in Birmingham because injustice is present. In his letter, he explains that negros should be considered a native citizen because people are living on the grounds of the United...
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...The African American community has had significant hardships brought to them over many years in the United States. They were put through the terrible time period in which slavery and the violent treatment of the community was vibrant. African Americans have been segregated, oppressed, bullied, killed, lynched, and many other terrible things that has provided them an extremely unfair life. The African American community has had a long history of racism, oppression, and not having the same rights and access to public space as others have; they have had an enormous amounts of successes overcoming the oppression and gaining the rights to public space, but most importantly overcoming segregation in the United States education system. First and...
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...The Road To Ending Segregation Barbara Pritchard HIS 204: Historical Awareness Professor Kimberly Hornback September 26, 2011 The road to ending Segregation The road to ending segregation was a long and hard move for the South. In the 1800s-1900’s segregation was enforced to keep African Americans separated from whites. During this time African Americans had to deal with the symbols of what was called Jim Crow’s, (Whites Only and Colored Only) signs; which are found today in museums, old photographs, and documentaries. Now since an African American has been elected President of the United States, a person could say segregation seems as old-fashioned and distant as watching an old black and white television. Although, the major challenge is to explain the reasons for the legacy of segregation, discrimination, and isolation to attain equality and civil rights, that African Americans worked to end. The best way to describe the shape of the United States in the second half of the 19th century, “according to eminent historian Robert Wiebe, the answer was isolated island communities,” (Bowles, 2011, Section 1.1, Para 1). Wiebe used the symbol of the island because cities were very much separated and isolated from each other and had a weak system of communication between them. The time came, after the divisiveness and devastation of the Civil War, when the nation searched for order economically, politically, geographically, and racially. Although, emancipation came during...
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...is when your boyfriend is your bestfriend!roductionBrown versus Board of Education was a major turning point in the history of the United States. This major case was actually several cases that were decided by the Supreme Court as one. These cases were argued by the NAACP and their expert team of lawyers led by Thurgood Marshall and his team the Legal Defense and Educational Fund. All the cases were filed by African American parents on behalf of their children. The parents of these children wished it to be brought before the courts that “separate but equal” was not fair. In the South though, Plessy v. Ferguson, “separate but equal” and Jim Crow laws reigned, they had a tough battle ahead.Leading up to Brown v. Board of EducationThe Jim Crow Laws were enacted in mostly the Southern and some of the border states of the United States and enforced between 1876 and 1965, slightly less than a hundred years (wikipedia). These laws mandated "separate but equal" status for black Americans. “In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were almost always inferior to those provided to white Americans. The most important laws required that public schools, public places and public transportation, like trains and buses, have separate facilities for whites and blacks” (wikipedia). In the Progressive Era the restrictions were formalized, and segregation was extended to the federal government by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913 (wikipedia).To discuss the Supreme Court case of Brown...
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...schools in the United States of America. It created a milestone of equal opportunities in schools among the blacks and whites. The ruling of this case took place in 1954 and it ruled in favor of Mr. Brown. It is among one of the important cases ever heard on racial prejudice in the American history. The Brown vs. Board of Education case is about a young third grader girl in Kansas, Topeka city named Linda Brown (Dudley 48). Linda was subjected to trekking one mile through a railway switchyard daily in order to reach her black elementary school despite there being a white school seven blocks away from her home. Browns father attempted to find a chance in the white school to get her enrolled there since the black elementary school was far from home but the principal of the white school rejected Linda’s enrollment because she was black and the school was a white school. Mr. Brown and other parents reported the incident to the head of Topeka’s National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The head of NAACP Mr. McKinley Burnett had really waited for such an opportunity so as to challenge racial segregation problem in court as segregation cases were very rampant in the United States schools. This was the right opportunity as Mr. Burnett and NAACP took legal action by taking the case to the District court. Brown lost the case to the state but he overruled the decision of the Kansas district court and took the case to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Jim Crow...
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...Slavery ended in the United States with the passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865. With this came the division of racial lines that were now visible and enforced by law. Although slavery had been outlawed, white Americans still found ways to enforce their feelings of superiority, thus taking away any power that the 13th Amendment gave. In the years to come, this dividing line between white and black American became exceptionally clear through the means of segregation. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, segregation was legal in the United States and was heavily followed in the South. Blacks and whites were separated by facilities such as public bathrooms, transportation, and drinking fountains. With the Supreme Court’s decision in the...
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