The Causes And Effects Of Racial Segregation In The 1930s

The United States is a immigrant country, which faces varieties of problems. The African American problem is one of the most serious one. Racial segregation is a deep-rooted social problem, which reflects in every field in the United States. For example, education, labor market and criminal justice system. In the aspect of education, most of black children were not permitted to enter the school, because the white children studied there. In the aspect of labor market, the black people 's average wages were lower than the whites. They did the manual work. In the aspect of criminal justice system, the blacks were easily in jail. Badly, their sentences were also more serious than the whites. In general, the blacks live in the bottom of the American society. Martin Luther King delivered the famous speech I Have a Dream, ' ' I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ' ' (1) However, it was difficult for African American to get the freedom. The 1776 Declaration of Independence announced that everyone are equal and freedom.But black slavery still occurred in the southern states of America. Then the Civil War broke out, African American kept struggling for land and political rights.

What is segregation? Segregation is setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group. (dictionary.com) In the 1930s African Americans did not have the right to vote. The policy of segregation meant that blacks had their own churches, schools, football teams, and even their own cemeteries. The Great Depression also took place in the 1930s. The economic crisis of the 1930s, the Great Depression, is one of the most studied periods in American history. Racism was at a high point in the 1930s.

What is segregation? Segregation is set apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group. (dictionary.com) In the 1930s African Americans did not have the right to vote. The policy of segregation meant that blacks had their own churches, schools, football teams, and even their own cemeteries. The Great Depression also took place in the 1930s. The economic crisis of the 1930s, the Great Depression, is one of the most studied periods in American history. Racism was at a high point in the 1930s.

The 1930’s started off with a huge economic crash which left the U.S. startled and in the Great Depression. The stock market had just crashed on October 24, 1929, also known as the Wall Street Crash. The “Jazz Age” had just ended and new musicians and artists were slowly rising up to their fame. African American’s were being discriminated against in the south. Many African Americans were farmers who had to suffer from the Great Depression as well as the Dust Bowl. As a result of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl many African Americans had to go through the struggles of losing their jobs and having to move north in search for a new life. Many Americans had this problem as well, but the racism that was used against Africans, added to the severeness of the situation. African Americans weren’t able to get jobs, homes, or opportunities as easily as African Americans. Many African Americans were in terrible condition and most of it was because of the way that African Americans were treated. After President Roosevelt was elected a new hope had arisen through the country and Africans Americans were given another chance.

The United States’ treatment of African Americans has changed tremendously since the country’s founding up until now. African Americans were first introduced to the country in one of the harshest manners possible. They were brought over on tightly compacted slave ships and then forced into hard labor for the entirety of their lives. This went on for centuries until African Americans were finally given their freedom after the Civil War. Albeit this was much better than slavery, citizenship came with many troubles of its own. The years following the Civil War, known as the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, would prove to be, aside from slavery, some of the hardest times for African Americans in all of U.S. history.

African Americans were always thought to be inferior to the white supremacy in the United States. Although the Civil War had abolished slavery, blacks were still very ill-treated. Blacks were to not associate with the white society. They were banned from restaurants, bathrooms, parks, schools, hospitals, and much more. Whites constantly abused the blacks to the point that African American life expectancy was 7 years less compared to the whites (http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/). Society believed that a black could cause something to lose value for example “property values would drop a great deal if an African American family moved into a neighborhood that was not considered a ghetto”. African Americans began to stand up against the racial

Segregation and Discrimination in 1880-1920 was a bad time for blacks, the whites basically took away their rights but yet said they didn’t based on their law “separate but equal”. The events that happen during in this time period is all based on race and mistreating African Americans. Blacks have to pay all these payments just to vote and so much other things and no one whites have to cause their the color of what they see perfect. One brave man noticed how whites were so rude to blacks and takes it to the court house to explain the separate but equal is all a lie because equality allows anybody to go anywhere they want to and do anything that is allowed by law. Having signs on building saying “ONLY WHITE” its breaking their so called

One historical reason for these correlations is, in 1940, the federal government endorsed disinvestment in the areas where blacks lived, transferred money into suburbs that were “whiter”, and supported spatial segregation. This act by the government caused neighborhoods that were not white to become poor, and neighborhoods became segregated due to spatial segregation. Factors like investment, money, and segregation are strongly related to racially isolated neighborhoods. Another historical reason is the National Housing Act of 1934 which only was for white people. This act subsidized home mortgages for whites only, so only white people could move to the suburbs. Therefore, suburbs were only white neighborhoods not for people of color. This

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

In the 1950’s young American boys often joined groups like The Boy Scouts of America to make friends and socialize. They would learn things in an organized fashion and were rewarded for their efforts and their accomplishments. Segregation was still strong at this time and the African American boys were not allowed to join these groups. They began to join together to make their own groups based on neighborhoods and schools. They socialized together and began to grow connections they might not have had any other way.

Unfortunately, even today, when people think of the history of the southern part of the United States, they only think about the negative aspects, such as slavery. Slavery in the southern part of the United States began when the first African slaves were brought to Virginia in 1619. Slavery was practiced through the 17th and 18th centuries in America. The job of most African-American slaves during this time was to work on plantations that were owned by wealthy white landowners. Their job consisted of things such as picking cotton and other chores that

There was the Civil War, where they joined in the fight to earn their freedom. Furthermore, the African Americans were still suppressed and restricted to many rights. African Americans stood less of a chance against authorities, like in To Kill a Mockingbird. When a young African American man was accused of a terrible crime, he was found guilty even though the facts didn’t add up. Barely anyone stood up for the poor young man, and when someone stood up for the man, he was not enough help or that man was later influenced to say the convicted African American was guilty. Even though African Americans earned their freedom, they still face discrimination and handicaps put on them by other

Being African American has never been easy. They were slaves with no rights and treated as things or even animals. White Americans have always been stereotypical of black people, although blacks had a major role in shaping America’s history through inventions, sports, political science and their great role in WWII such as the Tuskegee Airmen who were the popular name of African Americans pilots who fought bravely and accomplished a lot during the war. The way White Americans has looked at blacks has never changed. African Americans have been fighting for their rights since the birth of this nation, and the war has not ended yet. Therefore, African Americans were racially discriminated against not only because of the color of their skin. They were also racially discriminated because of their religion, sex, and their social class. In the last decade of the 19th century, racial violence and ethnic discrimination increased against African Americans. And they were not allowed to do anything white considered for “whites only.” Economic opportunities were denied, voting rights were stripped away, and suitable housing was not an option for

Although blacks may have been freed from slavery, it didn’t mean that they were treated the same as everyone else. In 1896, Plessy vs. Ferguson, the Supreme Court defined separate but equal standards. Rarely was anything equal though. Segregation went on until the landmark case, Brown vs. Board of Education, declared that separate schools based on race was unconstitutional (Microsoft). This case “…became the cornerstone of sweeping changes (Chalmers 17)” because the decade following the Brown decision “…witnessed a complex interplay of forces between black citizens striving to exercise their constitutional rights, the increasing resistance of southern whites, and the equivocal response of the federal government (Robinson 2).”

During the 1800’s to the late 1960’s racial segregation and prejudice was common and widespread, racial segregation is basically separating between races and giving people benefits and rights depending on their skin color or ethnic background. This issue has been prevalent for far too long and the reason behind it is inequality in the country because of cultural differences and historical, African Americans do not have some of the rights that white skin colored people. Some of the most important right is the civil rights and the right to vote, this right taken away from the African Americans.