The Disadvantages that Black Americans Faced in the Early 1950’s

Economic oppression against blacks occurred out of white’s prejudice for African Americans. Most economic inequality between races advanced from an unequal opportunity in the labor force. This was because African Americans were not given the same chance as whites for similar jobs. In the 1950’s at least 75 percent of African American men “in the labor force were employed in unskilled jobs.” A few of these jobs included janitors, porters, cooks, and machine operators. However, only 25 percent of white males had jobs which did not require many skills. The disparity between women was also significant. 20 percent of black women were paid service workers while only 10 percent of white women maintained the same job. The two most significant l reasons African Americans were economically oppressed was because they were denied access to numerous jobs and the

The 1930’s was a time of great struggle in the USA. The New York stock market crashed in 1929 and triggered a spiral of economic depression, which hit African Americans hard.

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 Great depression caused many problems for black people and they were greatly affected by it. Problems of the Great Depression affected every American, however, African Americans were the most affected. By 1932 half of Black Americans were out of work. In some Northern cities, blacks were fired so that a white person could take their job. But yet again, racial violence became more common, especially in the South. Even when President Roosevelt was trying to end the Great Depression there was still a conflict between the blacks and whites in the New Deal Housing and employment projects. This just goes to show that once everything has been set in motion that it can't really become a non-normal thing. Everyone was mostly worrying about themselves and their own people that they didn't bother

After World War I ended, the 1920’s brought on dramatic political and social changes. For most people, the 1920’s brought them more conflict. They did not like the new changes and were trying to keep them from happening. However, for a small group of young people the 1920’s was a great time to make progress and move forward from the conservative norm. After women got suffrage, they pushed through the double standards and tried and got jobs in factories and offices, instead of only doing domestic work. African Americans pushed through the discrimination they were facing and moved to the northern states, where they got better jobs and better opportunities to pursue their dreams in literature, art, music, and stage performance.

The 1950’s -1960’s was a tough time for African Americans. Struggling for freedom since the 19th century, they were finally closer to getting what they deserved. Alice walker’s short story, “Everyday use,” describes the different stances blacks had during that decade.

During the 1950’s African Americans experienced inequality and discrimination. For these reasons Armstrong received many racist reviews in the newspapers, Armstrong refused to comment on political matters or on topics such as segregation and racism. This changed however in 1957, when Armstrong saw the Little Rock Central High School crisis or the “Little Rock nine” as it is also known. When Armstrong saw the crisis on television he was furious and told a reporter, Larry Lubenow, that President Dwight D. Eisenhower had "no guts" and stated, "The way they are treating my people in the South, the Government can go to hell.” When the eager reporter returned to his editor thinking he had a huge new cover story for their paper, the editor said there was no way Armstrong would have said something like that, and that they could only print the story if he had some form of proof. When the reporter returned to Armstrong he asked his permission to print the story.

America during the 1960s was a time of War, protests, riots and ultimately change. Groups of revolting people from African Americans to Women who wanted more rights sparked change and protest and put the American Government under pressure. With the government being under pressure the American democracy was altered and redefined by determined ethnic and other groups.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, after the Civil War, began the reconstruction of the United States. In 1865 the 13th amendment was passed, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except for punishment. With the passing of the 13th amendment all slaves were free, but it did not mean they were equal. African Americans still faced discrimination mainly in the south. The Southern States passed laws specifically limiting what they could do. African Americans were not treated like others, in most States formal education was unattainable to them. There were many inequalities formed by the southerners, because of this many African American civil rights activists arose like Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois.

Discrimination. Isolation. Exclusion. These things are what African Americans faced everyday in society during the 1900s. The segregation in schools had a big impact on African American lives during the 1900s.

Segregation was prevalent in the 1950s and it still is in 2017. In the 1950s, the goal of segregation was to keep the colored citizens in the United States from mixing with the white citizens. There was segregation present in everything from the separation of railroad cars to the cells in the prisons. Today, there is still segregation within the US that involves both discrimination and racism, not necessarily the separation of people. Today, discrimination still takes place towards African Americans although there are laws in place that should prevent hateful actions towards them. African American citizens encounter discrimination everywhere from within their jobs to interacting with the police. A surveyed group of African Americans

Imagine living in a country in which someone was denied the right to vote or be a regular citizen because of his or her skin color. This was the main idea of the Jim Crow Laws that existed in the United States from the 1890s until the civil rights movement in the 1960s. African Americans were being separated from whites under the doctrine of “separate but equal”(Teachers’ Curriculum Institute). Blacks and whites had different facilities for every aspect of life. They were segregated due to the racial discrimination of the whites in most of the southern states. In the 1950s, these laws were starting to come to an end, but racism was still present in the South. Racial discrimination in the South during the 1950’s affected the living conditions of those affected because they had low-paying jobs, lived in poor areas and ghettos, and had bad health care.

The history of United State has shown many racial discriminations since colonists arrived America. African Americans have suffered unequal treatments and punishments in comparison to white people and European immigrants. Even when slavery was abolished in 1865, African Americans were still victims of many inequalities like employment, rights, housing, and transportation. However, due to these inequalities and mistreatments like the Jim Crow Laws, many African Americans started to make a change during the 1950’s, also called the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks, that was arrested for sitting in the front of a bus in Alabama. Rosa Parks case made the supreme court to ban segregation in public transportation. The social difference during the 1950’s was very notable and obvious, and voting was a big example of the huge discrimination suffered by African Americans and minorities. In the south, white people would take away minorities’ right to vote by making them take a test that would decide if they were or not capable to make a political decision. Fortunately, big characters like Martin Luther King vouched for the end of this inequalities. Martin Luther King played a big role in the 1960’s making everyone aware about the change that was about to come.

Throughout the course of American’s history people of colored skin have been infinitely and continuously oppressed and suppressed for decades. For numerous years people of color had to endure horrific attacks of inferiority and hatred. From being sold as property to being psychically, emotionally, and verbally beaten to ones defeat. The fight for equality between all races has been long fought especially for people of African descent. The need for change was in dire need and no more could the people stand it. During the 1900s it became lucid what needed to be done and without any warning the African-American Civil Rights Moment would begin. Initially around the 1930s spanning all the way to the late 1960s, those it is said to be the time of civil change. Of all the decades that fell into the duration of the African-American Civil Rights Moment many would say that the 1950s was the catalyst for the major change that was brought upon many Americans during the African-American Civil Rights Moment. Many key events happened during the 1950s and if they creased to happen then it would be a great lose and an immense setback. Though key events did occur before the 1950s the majority were placed in the 1950s. The 1950s was a time of great importance for civil rights and essentially the spark in which great change overcame the people of the United States of America.