Equality: Plessy Vs. Ferguson

History, especially in regards to issues of race, is a repetitive thing. There are recurring events just with different faces, places, and circumstances consuming the individuals of the communities we live. Once where the black communities started to form their own progressive movements and make a name for themselves in America they are now regressing back to a time where justice for the black community only seems to be something we dream, hope, and fight for. Reading “The Fire this Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race” by Jesmyn Ward made me open my eyes to a different reality one that I think I tried to believe did not exist to appease the fantasy that one day we would all be seen as truly equals. In reality, we are not equals. We live in a world that constantly tries to demean people of

Often times, people of the twenty-first century forget that segregation was real, people do not realize the impact of segregation nor how powerful it was. Segregation was real, segregation was powerful, and segregation affected the lives of many, whites would harass anyone who was not of their color. People associate civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr., and although he sparked the Civil Rights movement, he should not be completely accredited for getting rid of segregation. Supreme Court cases have diminished segregation. The elimination of segregation was not immediate, but took decades to completely part with. Most people would agree that these three cases have stood out and made the most impact: Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board

Some parents of the people that segregated black people taught their children that these people weren’t smart they were smelly don’t trust them all of these things weren’t true ,but that’s what they were taught from a young age. These conflicts really started to happen in 1863 when president Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. In the 1960s there was a little black girl who went to school during this time, and her white teacher even said “Lincoln should have never freed the slaves.’’ Then again those people were taught those things

The separate but equal doctrine is Plessy v. Ferguson. Five examples that effected the American society were that (1) schools were segregated,(2) the whites finally accepted the equality of African Americans, (3) the American society was changed forever after this case, (4) the whole U.S. acts differently towards cases that involve mixed genders now, and (5) Strict laws were changed because of this case.

Race has been one of the most outstanding situations in the United States all the way from the 1500s up until now. The concept of race has been socially constructed in a way that is broad and difficult to understand. Social construction can be defined as the set of rules are determined by society’s urges and trends. The rules created by society play a huge role in racialization, as the U.S. creates laws to separate the English or whites from the nonwhites. Europeans, Indigenous People, and Africans were all racialized and victimized due to various reasons. Both the Europeans and Indigenous People were treated differently than African American slaves since they had slightly more freedom and rights, but in many

Historically in the United States, there has always been a significant difference in the way different races have been treated. Even after many years of laws and bills being passed to create a smaller gap in the inequality of the different races, we still see a large problem with inequality today. One of those inequalities is the difference between white and African American’s, in history whites have always been at the top, and blacks at the bottom, civil rights movements lead by black leaders in the 1950s and 1960s changed the way blacks were treated, but although there was some change our society still recognizes blacks as the inferior race. Looking at inequality today, blacks are still being treated differently in jobs, the criminal justice

The closer you look into the world, the more secrets you will unlock. If you were to look closely in world history, you would see racism and inequality. If you look in art, you can see racism and inequality. Inequality has not been eradicated, there is still a heavy divide between races in our nation, the United States. As article one stated, 88 percent of blacks believe the nation still needs to make changes to benefit equality, but 43 percent do not believe these changes will occur. Different races have different views on the changes for equality. Article 1 states the 53 percent of whites believe the nation needs to change to aid the fight for equality. The other 47 percent believes that the country has changed enough to support equality.

In the late 1800s through the mid-1900s, life in America was divided: there were Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes, segregated schools, and voting restrictions. The years following the Civil War proved to be a tremendous struggle for both African Americans and Whites alike. Many reforms regarding racial inequality took place; however, majority of the White population were angered by all these changes. Tension stirred, violence occurred, and protests arose. Today, racial tension still exists, but to a lesser degree. Over the past 150 years in American history, race relations have slowly improved, but some conflicts still remain.

America has faced a lot of hardships since being created by our founding fathers. We experienced the struggle for freedom, westward expansion, and a nation divided upon itself. However, one of the biggest struggles faced in America is segregation, racism, and the division of people against each other. Since the Civil War it has been one of the greatest conflicts in our nation’s history. Black vs. White is an issue that has been debated from the early beginning of our nation to the civil war to the civil rights movement and even today African Americans are discriminated against.

America has made drastic improvements in racial relations and equality since the Civil Rights Movement. Segregation is dead and African-Americans are on a level playing field with all races in the pursuit of a successful, productive, and happy life. Restaurants and bathrooms are available to blacks and whites to use, African-Americans are more likely to receive higher education, and the workforce has become an equal playing field for all races. African-Americans are beginning to fill high level and intermediate level jobs decreasing the amount of blacks living at or under the poverty line. Blacks occupying these jobs are a direct result of more blacks pursuing a higher education and qualifying themselves for these jobs. As a society we have

One of the biggest problems Africans Americans faced in America is Segregation, discrimination, racism and prejudice. Their fight for justice marks a long sequence of events towards their freedom. Race according to the New Webster’s Dictionary is a division of mankind based on skin color, hair texture, facial makeup etc in a group or class. Racism can be traced back to the beginning of history. It has went beyond individual discrimination and stretched as far as institutional racism and linguistic profiling. Institutional racism occurs when racism is supported by governmental policies and laws. Linguistic profiling has not yet been recognized as a form of racial discrimination however, cases such as Johnson v. Jensen have been bought to

Today many people believe that we have obtained racial equality. However there are multiple reasons and statistics that contradict those arguments . For decades African Americans has been deprived of basic rights, “If America had racial equality in education and jobs, African Americans would have two million more high school degrees…(Raines)”. There are many drastic racial gaps from education to owning property. Throughout America’s history blacks have been limited, when it comes to education, property, and other things. If people truly believe that after four hundred years of enslavement and limited rights, can be fixed within one generation they are wrong. The African American community has faced

The U.S. society has been struggling with the racism and discrimination from long time ago until present. Racism is distinguishing races as being superior and inferior, having an erroneous feeling of hate and aversion towards some people only because of their race and skin color, and favoring characteristics of one race over any other races. History of the racism in the U.S. has its roots in the 17th to 19th centuries when black people were transported from Africa to the U.S. by ships as slaves to work on fields, in mines, or to be a house slave. Slaves were held in chains and treated cruelly. They were exhibited and sold like a merchandise. They were forced to work hard under tough circumstances and were deprived from even basic human rights. For instance, they could be legally killed by their masters, they could not marry without their master’s permission, and they could not get an education. It was like the humanity was dead. Black people were thought to be different, and they were treated unfairly by white people. The U.S. has come a long way since the days of slavery, and so many people have fought and have been killed on the way of slaves’ freedom.

Laws were made specifically targeting blacks to give them a hard time while the whites lived high class lives. Racial segregation was made public everywhere, blacks attended different schools, marriage of different race was highly restricted, and the right to vote was taken away. From segregation to name calling, this was a dangerous time period for many blacks. Today, racism still occurs, but it’s not as likely. Many issues have resolved toward racism, hence leading to change for the better. There are now organizations and laws that have been formed to work against discrimination, and unequal treatment of the colored people. The Charter Rights and Freedoms, Human Rights Legislation, and hate laws are evidence of this change. Even though it may be impossible to entirely prevent the amount of racism and discrimination of colored people receive, some improvements are possible. While the black community states O.J. Simpson is innocent, I argue Simpson is extremely guilty, because of the significant amount of evidence, witness’ statements, and racism in the

America’s struggles with race and racism are never completely out of it. The diversity group I will be using is the African American populations. They have received ill legitimate treatment from the time they were discovered. From slavery, prejudice, discrimination, stereotypes, if you can name it this race has experience it but the big question is why and how did these negative biases develop. There are a lot of myths out there about black people but, which ones are actually