Segregation And Effects On African American Communities

Many Americans point to the suffering of the African American experience from the internal problems in African Americans communities; however, they neglect the external social constraints that African Americans have faces in America. African Americans have suffered oppression through social institution through factors such as Segregation, Racial Crimination, and Mass incarnation. The constraint of segregation was a way of social, political, and economical control over African Americans. African Americans

African Americans as a whole agree that racial segregation has affected their chances of employment, residency, education and access to proper health facilities. Many have stories and experiences of being qualified for a job but being turned down for being African American. Several experiments have been conducted where an African American would attempt to view homes in diverse neighborhoods and be turned down and white co-workers or friends would call immediately after and be invited to come in.

In America on average only 27% of African American Students’ class mates are Caucasian due to a divide between white and minority populations which has lasted for decades (Rivkin n.pag.). A system of racial division has evolved in the shadows and takes on many forms, most of which are fairly discrete. Racially separated communities have formed through a variety of mediums in a slow and persistent manner. However, the effects of a residential divide are direct, immediate, and numerous. A racist agenda

enforced in the southern states led to the promotion of discrimination and segregation within African Americans. To the extension of southern legislation obstructing African-American children from attending the same public schools as white children. The motive behind the Fourteenth amendment was no denial to an American citizen to their authority of equal protection of the laws, however, the execution of racial segregation was considered as constitutional. The NAACP, the first nationwide civil rights

Segregation Segregation is defined as the physical parting of races in a residential context (LaVeist & Isaac, 2013). Carried out by the various government agencies, cultural institutions and policies, African Americans have been forcefully limited to the least attractive options in terms of housing. For decades, employment opportunities and educational right of entry for African American households have been forecasted by the popular implementation of formal policies (LaVeist & Isaac, 2013).

the Post-Segregation Era Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, addresses the hardships of an African-American family living in the projects of post-segregation Chicago. The family aspires to fulfill their dreams of owning a home despite the odds they face. W.E.B Du Bois critical race theory explains the issue of racism and white dominance that not only the family in the play faces, but the African-American community as a whole. American society only allows for African-Americans to see

Brown v. The Board of Education Topeka, Kansas, 1950, a young African-American girl named Linda Brown had to walk a mile to get to her school, crossing a railroad switchyard. She lived seven blocks from an all white school. Linda’s father, Oliver, tried to enroll her into the all white school. The school denied her because of the color of her skin. Segregation was widespread throughout our nation. Blacks believed that the “separate but equal” saying was false. They felt that whites had more educational

upon the subject of segregation, a separation between whites and blacks during mid-20th century America, and children across the country learn the harsh reality of our nation’s history. Modern culture produces media to recreate these events in movies such as The Help, and Driving Miss Daisy. Although much of the media related segregation with the 1950’s and 1960’s, these decades were only a climax of the protests and civil movements during the time period. Not only segregation, racial inequality has

given insight into a community that was once content with the evils of segregation and decided to say little against its oppression instead, thrives under the weight of segregation. Whereas today's community possess dissatisfaction to live under oppression and arranges

INTRODUCTION African American schools emerged from the landmark case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 when the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of separate but equal facilities for Whites and Blacks. This decision affected the use of all public facilities used by African Americans, including schools. Out of the forced separatism an unintended outcome was birthed: the “agency” of the African American community (Morris, 2004). During segregation effective all Black schools had strong leaders