Racial Segregation

In the 1960’s, black and white individuals were not recognized as being equal. The two races were treated differently, and the African Americans did not enjoy the same freedoms as the whites. The African Americans never had a chance to speak their mind, voice their opinions, or enjoy the same luxuries that the white people attained. Through various actions/efforts like the lunch counter sit-ins, freedom rides, and bus boycotts, the black people confronted segregation face on and worked to achieve equality and freedom.

High school is often considered a microcosm of society. Beliefs, social order, and current issues present themselves through student’s interactions and the environment they learn in. One of the oldest and still prevalent issues in the United States today is race and equality. So it is no surprise when racial issues are exposed in public education. Although many believe the civil rights era fixed most discrimination, racism remains in schools. Even after court ordered integration, classroom disparities have led to harmful segregation to continue within schools.

The United States has been plague with racism. While a percentage of Americans choose to deny the existence of it, the problem thrives. In the Brown vs. Board of Education of 1954, the separation of race in public school where outlawed. The southern states had a difficult time adapting to the change, thus causing riots and violence. After years of trying to overcome a dark past, we are still faced with the same problem 60 years later.

Equality was once a repulsive concept within America, today it seems to be a foregone conclusion. Indeed, we have made so many strides in the way that we view race that it seems a gross misstep every time that it needs to be addressed. Even our President, an African American who overcame tremendous odds to rise to the highest office does not have the answers to our issues with race, rather he calls on us all to “ask some tough questions about how we can permit so many of our children to languish in poverty, or attend dilapidated schools, or grow up without prospects for a job or for a career.” For most, these questions point to sources outside of themselves, but perhaps there a bit of introspection is the answer. Systematic segregation can

I decided that while this was something common and had backing maybe I should do more digging before bringing it up with anyone else. So, I decided to try a different approach, I copied all the patient files, then ran them through a program that sorted them by race. Now I didn’t think this would go anywhere as the country is now much more integrated than it was during the time period any of the articles or books I found were written in. Imagine my surprise when I find that the repeat visits from minority races all have issues such as insecurity in their job and social life, many of them seem to have a dislike for how they look or act at times and they let this control them but then they dislike themselves even more and some of them have inferiority

Many aspects of African-American’s life were segregated from that of the rest of the population. African-Americans could not use the same water fountains or purchase items from the same markets as the “whites”. Certain shops would have a sign in front of them that would inform anyon that may chose to shop there if there race was allowed to be there. Most shops that allowed African-Americans would force them to use the back entrance etc.

America’s foundation in a sense was founded on racism. Although we live in a much more different, accepting time, it wasn’t too long ago that there was segregation and extreme racism in our society. We as a society have now since evolved and are now more tolerable and diverse then what we once were. However, there still are cases in America that show just how far we still need to develop our tolerance.

The United States has come a long way since the 1960s civil rights movement, yet many large, metropolitan areas within its borders still experience vast amounts of racism and segregation- especially in the area of residential living. The topic of this research draws attention to the issue of racial residential segregation, particularly in the city of St. Louis. Even though there are official laws against discrimination in jobs, housing, school, etc., much of this prejudice is still very prevalent within social norms. The goal of this research is to analyze the posed question: Why and how does a person of African American descent experience racial residential segregation in their quest of finding housing? In this study, the experience and treatment will be measured as being dependent on race within the residential sector.

During the early 1960s, Birmingham, Alabama was considered to be one of the most racially divided cities in the United States despite the city's population of approximately 350,000 people and 60 percent being white and 40 percent being African Americans. Birmingham, Alabama’s law enforcement, firefighters, salesperson in department stores, school bus drivers, bank tellers, and cashiers had no employed African Americans. African Americans who were secretaries were not allowed to work for white professionals. Many jobs available for African Americans consisted of manual labor in factories, provided maid and yard services, or working in other African American neighborhoods. Jobs that had to lay off employees for whatever reasons would often lay

Racial residential segregation remains at an all time high in the United States. Studies found that households with different races, but the same income reside in neighborhoods that have different economic and racial compositions. These patterns were discovered all over the world. The Census has developed “new patterns in neighborhoods with is described and compared to the average racial and economic composition of the neighborhoods of each racial/ethic group at each exact level of household income” (Fox, 2015). This will allow comparisons to be made across the metropolitan areas and show that patterns hold for all levels of income.

The racial segregation of American cities proves that racism is a significant issue. Although, thankfully, blatant racism is on the decline, the index of dissimilarity shows that U.S. cities are still very racially segregated. Especially for African Americans. According to the textbook, a large portion of African Americans “remain confined and isolated in racial ghettos, particularly in the northeast and Midwest” (298). Such ghettos reduce resident’s opportunity for success. These residents are socially isolated, and as a result, are faced with unemployment and crime. Additionally, because people in these neighborhoods are “cut off” from the rest of the city, they have access to “poor-quality schools,” and hospitals and have high rates of “infant mortality, substance abuse, and violent crime” (299). With limited access to fundamentals, such as schooling and healthcare, many African Americans and immigrants have limited opportunities to improve there living conditions. Many immigrants, in fact, face the same segregation in American cities as African Americans. “Similar to the situation for blacks, the metro areas with the most Hispanics are also the most highly segregated” the “degree of segregation varies by ethnic group and social class” (306). Changing sentiment in the united states can

Do you know what one of the saddest things that mankind has ever done is? Segregation. We often separate people into groups based on height, weight, skin color, hair color, and even the way that a person’s face looks. America was one of the worst countries involving segregation because of the Caucasian and African American in the past few years. Honestly, it should not matter to people, yet it does. A person’s physical appearance matters to people, to most people, actually. There are some who can look past the skin and see the spirit. One person famous for this was Mother Teresa. Then there are the British and the Indians, who unfortunately were enemies in this great racial war. These people are described in detail in the stories Something

Throughout the history, slavery has existed simultaneously with the forming of the United States of America. Many Africans were dictated to step down their native land behind as they lost in the war with the colonist. Soon after European traders first came and settled in America with numbers of African servants, the slavery era began in the United States between 17th and 18th century. A system of forced labor was well established back then, as the needs for slaves rose dramatically. The idea of white supremacy came into being afterwards, which was the bedrock of racial tension in the United States, and still entrenched in the American civilization until today. Segregation and discrimination have always been the stark and prominent issue facing

The tension level between races in the United States is on the verge of exploding. The issue of racism is very relevant in today’s society. Similarly, subjects such as political correctness make the tension level even higher. If someone does not stay within the accepted vocabulary pertaining to the color of peoples skin someone can be considered a racist. Police shootings have now become a major issue that has caused riots in communities

The United States is considered a melting pot because of the vast array of different cultures, ethnicities, and religious groups who all live within its borders. Other countries with fewer cultural differences have been torn apart by the conflicts that arise between these differing groups. It is believed by some that the United States has been able to avoid such ethical conflicts as have brought down other nations but looking at American history it is evident that this is not true. America's history is one of ethnic conflict because of religion, nationalistic, and particularly ethnic differences. The two centuries that the United States has existed has been a history of racial marginalization particularly against African Americans which culminated with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the present, the United States likes to claim that as a nation, we are color blind but evidence exists to the contrary. The Klu Klux Klan (KKK) still exists, hate crimes are committed based on ethnicity, and stereotypes are perpetuated in order to minimize and ostracize. Despite these instances, the country has held strong largely because although these instances occur, they are not approved of by the government or those involved in criminal justice.