Segregation In St. Louis

Segregation played a major role throughout the lives of the African Americans. They were viewed as unequal, and were set apart from the norms of society. In the South, the African Americans were forced to use water fountains for blacks only. They were refused service at many local restaurants, and forced to give up their seat on the bus to a white individual. African Americans wanted and needed to take action to gain equality. Throughout the years, they tried all they could to obtain equality and enjoy the same freedoms as the white population.

Unfortunately, these children cannot complete their education because they have to travel with their family and learn to manage at a young age a life of hard labor. This however does not diminish their dreams of completing high school and some day attending a university so that they will not have to live the life of struggle their parents did to sustain the household. In cities like Detroit, MI there is a large population of low income Hispanic and African American families. The public school system unfortunately cannot potentially promote a high-quality education. The majority of these students do not receive an entrance level education simply because of living standards. Income plays an important role in education opportunities regarding the quality education each student can pertain. Since the minorities in that area are low-income they cannot afford to attend a private high school that can better prepare them for college. According to a research done at the University of Texas-Pan American, “certain racial or ethnicity factors should play a role in the admissions decision.” (Marklein)

Gary Orfield a professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning at the University of California Los Angeles states in the book “Closing the Opportunity Gap”, chapter four of “Housing Segregation Produces Unequal Schools”, “Educational opportunity is directly and deeply connected with housing segregated neighborhoods linked to segregated schools produce unequal education. Where a family lives generally determines the quality of the schools its children attend” (Orfield 40). In many cases minorities attend schools that are generally linked to segregated schools because their

Racism and prejudices seem to be one of the causes for why African American students achieve low in academics. According to Garry Bold, even though funding levels of black schools are the same as wealthy white schools, predominately black schools will remain unequal. The reason why predominately black schools remain unequal is because educational reforms such as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) keeps probing into black schools in attempt of creating a new and improved way of teaching African Americans students so they can be like their white

This isn't techincally segregation because there's no rule saying that the races cannot be mixed in these areas, but it ends up being that white people won't want to move to black neighborhoods, black people won't want to move to white neighborhoods, and the neighborhoods remain separated. There are also many cases of racial profiling today by police officers. Data shows that young black men are more likely to be stopped and frisked on the street than young white men. There are many cases where police officers have gone too far in terms of force in relation to a incident involving young black men. In big cities, it's quite dangerous to be a young black man, for often times you'll be the subject to unfair stops and unneeded force by police officers. Race also can judge whether or not you'll even be hired at a job. There are often times where, if you're black and have a nearly identical resume as a white person, that person will get the job over you. Racism is still very present in today's society despite laws that pervent segregation and discrimination based on

Happening mostly during the peaceful times, segregation is a scar on the body of the United States of America that seems to heal but still disturbs even decades after. Not slaves anymore, at the beginning of the XX century black people were still not equal members of the society. During the Great Migration, African Americans moved from the Southern states where they resided historically to the North, where industrial cities that offered more jobs were located. Despite the fact that black people could pursue most of the careers available for white people, including artistic pathways, the demands of the society and the expectations from the black professionals were not equal to those from whites (The Civil Rights Act of

It is also difficult for them to afford to buy houses in expensive rural communities. This means many blacks and Hispanics are stuck living in poor conditions in the city. Most of the schooling in small towns and suburban communities is far more advanced than in the inner city. Students in these areas receive much better schooling and are much more prepared for college. Schools in the inner city do not receive the necessary funding to run properly which leads to an overwhelming majority of students to not getting the appropriate education they need. Many sociologists are concerned with our educational system and believe that it creates as much inequality as it mitigates (Benson, Goldrick-RAB, Harris, Kelchen 2016). These are just a couple of reasons why there are still marked racial/ethnic disparities in rates of college graduation. In research done by Min Zhan about sixty percent of white full-time college students complete their bachelor’s degree at a four-year-college. This greatly decreases for other minority groups, Hispanics graduate at fifty percent while African Americans graduate at just forty percent (Zhan

Unequal educational opportunities for black students are a huge effect of racial segregation. Education has become a major problem dealing with racial segregation. Education is the foundation of literacy and success in America and African American students and schools are suffering. Schools in the U.S. are retracting back to segregation. As schools districts began to release schools from court order integration schools began to retract increasing test score disparities and national achievement gaps in large amounts not seen in four decades in the south. A national study conducted on the achievement gap between black and white students says “Nationally the achievement gap between whites and blacks during the integration period narrowed but as schools began to be released from court order integration schools became more segregated widening the achievement gap between black and white students” (Jones 1). Because of racial segregation the quality and access to education in African Americans is worsening over the years as school districts stop enforcing integration. But surprisingly, residential segregation has a big play in how well

Minorities are often unable find high paying jobs due to high paying jobs being in suburban areas and not where minorities typically live. In “Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health”, Williams discovers that residential segregation has a profound effect on employment. This leads to a lower status in society. He also discovers that since whites have moved out of cities and large metropolitan areas to the suburbs, higher paying jobs have also followed them, leaving low income jobs for minorities(Williams 179). High paying jobs not only avoid minority groups, but employment opportunities in general can affected by race.

Segregation was allowed to become an institution in the south with the failure of Reconstruction after the Civil War. When the federal government abandoned Reconstruction in 1877, the south were allowed to started segregation by passing Jim Crow laws. Freedmen were unable to gain land and became slaves to the sharecropping system. Sharecropping tied African-Americans to land they didn’t own and never allowed them to become economically independent. Segregation as an institution affected all aspects of everyday life for African-Americans and existed on many levels. Southern states passed segregation laws on nearly everything like schools, restaurants, hospitals, and public transportation. Racism

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

limits their opportunities by hindering their ability to get into a college. This leads them to have no other option but to work at jobs that pay the minimum wage or only a little over. They are not given the opportunity to change this cycle that has been created. They were raised in these neighborhoods where they have no choice to get a better education which stops them from getting good jobs. On top of that, the banks and loan companies refuse to offer mortgages in poor and minority neighborhoods (p.89).

“ Historically, low-income students as a group have performed less well than high-income students on most measures of academic success” (Reardon, 2013). Typically low-income families come from low-income parts of the state making a school that does not have as much funding as a higher economic schools does lack in resources for their students. The school then has lower paid teachers and administrators, with lower quality supplies. This results in a school which typically has faculty who do not perform as well as the well-funded schools. “The law fails to address the pressing problems of unequal educational resources across schools serving wealthy and poor children” (Hammond, 2007). Students from low and high income families will not be able to achieve the same education because their education simply is not the same.

As a result of this educational segregation, the schools in these areas receive less funding and arguably worse teachers which have a lack of resources. Since the parents in these poor neighborhoods have to work a lot (usually in several jobs), they do not have the time to get involved in their children’s education. This results in the children getting a poorer education and not being able to get higher paying jobs later on in life. Furthermore, since these families do not have the money to invest in college, their children often times cannot attend college, causing them to end up with lower paying jobs. Even if a loan is taken out, repaying the

Every city has poverty. Travel around the world, I bet it wouldn’t be difficult to find a city that doesn 't have an impoverished community. Poverty is a global issue, but most importantly it’s a local issue to me in the city that I live in. Among the 10 largest cities in America, Chicago has the third highest poverty rate with 40-60% of our residents living under the poverty level. People who live in poverty are given less opportunities, resources and tools than people who live in the middle or upper class. Poverty is not a pleasant subject, however, poverty is real. In the daily lives of the poor, poverty becomes a network of disadvantages. The end result is that there is a lack of access to education, employment, health care, affordable housing, proper sanitation and good nutrition among many generations of the poor (End Poverty). Of the issues associated with poverty, the lack of access to an education stands out to me the most. In Chicago, education is greatly valued and is vital for all development and growth achievements in people. Education is the process in which people gain knowledge, help form and shape attitudes and opinions, and allow people to gain a set of skills that they can further use in areas outside of a school environment. However, education systems in Chicago are taking a huge deficit due to the effects of poverty. The effects of poverty are already big factors toward the concern about Chicago, and why it is portrayed as negatively as it is, but those