Analyze The Role Of Segregation In America

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it.”-Harper Lee. Racism and segregation were issues that tore at the fabric of our country for many years. 1881-1900 was a time when blacks had limited freedoms and were faced with segregation. However, they didn’t just sit and wait for things to change, they faced them head on. The Tuskegee institute, the Civil Rights Act, and Plessy v. Ferguson are examples of blacks inequality and how they took matters into their own hands.

What do we think about when we think segregation? The first thing we’re most likely to think is schools, parks and stores right? Well it was more than that, segregation affected communities and even libraries and restaurants. Imagine it’s pre-1954, and you’re a black student walking to school. You see the bus pass but it doesn’t even drive as far as you have to walk, the kids get out and go into their heated and stable school while you think to yourself “how come our school isn’t that nice?” This was the whole idea in the

Society, as we know it today, consists of people who have evolved and developed mentally, culturally, geographically, and physiologically. Because people come from different walks of life, segregation has played a significant role in America. It is seemingly inescapable. The term segregation is known for its infamous history and the negative impact it has had on society. Due to its reputation, it is very uncommon that one studies the word in a positive way contrary to its negative connotation, to find that it has two sides, both pros and cons. Due to this fact, in this paper I will discuss the pros and cons that can be associated with segregation.

Most people remember or have been told stories about the civil rights movement. Though it was a remarkable time in our history, the story of segregation started long before the marches in the streets. After the Civil War, Southerners were not happy about their slaves finally being freed. In order to keep the African-American community under their control, white Southerners passed numerous laws that oppressed blacks and kept them confined in society. They were known as the Jim Crow Laws.

Segregation was one of the biggest problems of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Segregation is when people are excluded because of their race, where they’re from, or their religious beliefs. This went on in the United States from about 1877 and ended in 1964. This act started to dull down when brave African Americans stood up to the unjust treatment they had to face everyday. Segregation is wrong because it goes against the constitution, it’s unfair and biased, and lastly, it causes unnecessary violence along with an unacceptable example for the future.

Racial segregation born from white Americans belief that African-Americans and any other ethnicity should be in a subordinate state and denied equal access to everything they believed made them superior. With the laws passed 60 and 50 years ago, transition to improve segregation in public schools and other areas. Within the last 20 years the progress made improving our school

The south legalized segregation and institutionalized racism towards African American in 1877. Whites passed qualification laws, Poll Taxes, Literacy Test and Grandfather Clause. These laws were served to deprive blacks the right to vote and of legal right. They were called the Jim crow laws, these laws began in the 1960’s and continued in force until 1989’s. They kept the black people separated from the white people

By the 1950s, race relations in the United States were getting worst and threatened the image of peacefulness in America. Instead of the believable “picture perfect” definition that American character was portrayed to be, it was really constructed of major struggles between whites and blacks in the South. Jim Crow laws were being enforced from 1876 to 1965 and they mandated the idea of “separate but equal” which required that public places, like schools, have separate facilities for blacks and whites. But in 1954, in the court case of Brown v. Board of Education, school segregation was considered unconstitutional. Though there was massive resistance in other states in the Deep South, Arkansas was the first state to slowly begin integration in segregated schools.

By looking at America’s past life of segregation, we may open wounds for many that have been covered with salt and that also may bring out

The book the secret life of bees ties in with the whole segregation situation during the 1960’s. A young white girl named lily that ran away from home after an incident with her nanny Rosaleen. It all started the day Rosaleen decided she wanted to register herself to vote since she now had the writes to. When she and Lily got there, there was a line, and nearby were a couple white men; teasing Rosaleen

Segregation was a result of Jim Crow laws, and racism. Racism is the prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. Jim crow laws claimed that whites and African Americans should have separate but equal facilities. Examples of places that were segregated were diners, bathrooms, and water fountains. These laws contributed to the start of this movement because African Americans became tired of being treated differently so they began to protest.

Segregation in the United States, is defined as legal or social practice of separating people by law based on differences of race, wealth, culture, religion, or sexual orientation. Racial segregation in started as early as the 1800's as slavery. Slaves weren’t allowed to have an education like their owners’ children. Their purpose was to do the work that their owners wanted them to do. People separate the schools between black and white and the separate school system were not equal. There is a strong racial inequality in school systems, which negatively affect the quality of education for black people. For this reason, blacks and whites had to attend different schools. White schools gave white children a good quality education but black children

Racism and segregation are two different things but often not completely known about fully. Racism is the prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. Synonyms of racism include racial discrimination, racialism, racial prejudice, xenophobia, chauvinism, bigotry, and casteism, a few of these synonyms were unknown to me up until now. The definition of segregation in history is the separation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group by enforced or voluntary residence in a restricted area, by barriers to social intercourse, by separate educational facilities, or by other discriminatory means. The worst part was that the legal system and the police supported segregation. The Jim Crow Laws were a major part in segregation. While the most widely known group for racism is the KKK, The Ku Klux Klan with their most known violent act, lynching.

Firstly, The racial segregation was very deeply rooted because blacks and whites couldn’t go to school with each other or drink out of the same water fountain or ride in the same part of the bus. Also, if you were a black man in the south you couldn’t marry a white woman or vise versa and you could not adopt a white child if you were black. Finally, segregation was so bad that whites and blacks didn’t even live in the same neighborhood because if a black family moved in then every white person would move out of that neighborhood.

The most important fact to realize is that the form of segregation was not by individuals, it was structural. As Gunnar Myrdal explains in his book An American Dilemma , back in the 1900’s minorities had to be seperated from Caucasians. Only for the reason at the time being that, it was law, “ ‘residential segregation…. Becomes reflected in uni- racial schools, hospitals and other institutions.. And creates an artificial city ...that permits on the part of public officials that freely vented of Negros without hurting Whites.” In addition to this segregated notion it created social inequality.