The Segregation Of The South

In contrast to the other three colonies discussed, the institution of slavery in South Carolina was initiated, legalized, and maintained for distinct reasons; the founders of the colony felt that slavery was absolutely necessary for economic prosperity and their unwavering urge to protect the institution at all costs contributed towards the severity of the slave-enforcement acts and codes. By looking at the legislation passed in South Carolina, one can grasp the extent to which slaves were legally stripped of every right imaginable, suffered barbarous treatment, and were attempted to be rendered psychologically and physically powerless--all because of the deep-seated fear of the enslaved population that was instilled within white slave owners and law-makers. In South Carolina, slavery was a horrendous business that was never questioned ethically or legally. The white settlers coming from Barbados--who had already been involved in the slave trade for years--migrated to South Carolina equipped with slaves already accustomed to difficult climate conditions (similar to South Carolina), which made them more pleasurable to slave owners expecting a strong work force. Another unique aspect to South Carolina was the overwhelming black majority in the colony for it is true that, “by 1708, less than twenty years after the decision to move from white indentured labor to black slave labor, the number of blacks in the colony exceeded whites,” (Higginbotham, 1978, pg. 152). Due to the

Until now reading the different laws associated with the separation of blacks and whites from years ago, I had no true idea the challenges African Americans face on a day to day basis. Truly, I still don’t since I do not live it, but reading them makes me sad thinking of how people treat other human beings. I am glad these laws are no longer valid and thankful for the people who took a stand fighting for the rights of all people, including white and black. All of the Jim Crow laws seek keeping the black population segregated disguised as “separate, but equal.” Determining which three I find most troubling is difficult due to the fact they are all so hard to imagine.

He let president Roosevelt know that they were not against America, they were against their lack of freedom, and the injustices African Americans have had to face and live with for generations.. Randolph stated. “That is why those familiar with the thinking of the American Negro have sensed his lack of enthusiasm, whether among the educated or uneducated, rich or poor, professional or unprofessional, religious or secular, rural or urban, north, south, east or west”. (Why should we march?) Roosevelt wanted to avoid the march by all means, so he issued an executive order establishing a committee for fair employment practices, and require that defense industries hire black workers. After these orders were passed, not much changed for the African Americans. I believe that's why the above quote mentions how unenthusiastic they were. Who would want to fight for a world order when the government in your own country isn't applying they're fight for global freedom and justice among their own people? They believed that no matter what they did to help the causes of war, their efforts would be overlooked as they previously were because the four freedoms were only for the white American.

There were many forms of discrimination in America. Discrimination was everywhere in the 20th century, and the population most affected by this were African Americans. Two of the most critical injustices committed in America during the 20th century were the development of the Jim Crow laws and school segregation. However, these injustices have been rectified as a result of the Civil Rights Movement and the decision of the supreme court of Brown v. Board of Education which brought important changes to African Americans.

The South, on the other hand, was highly dependent upon the institution of slavery. It was still primarily an agricultural society that needed as many laborers as possible in order for the plantation owners to make ends meet. According to historian Douglas Harper, “In 1793 came the cotton gin, which brought a 50-fold increase in the average daily output of short-staple cotton, promoted the rapid expansion of a ‘cotton kingdom’ across the Deep South, and made large-scale slavery profitable.” Because of this, the slave became an essential tool to the farmers of the south; more money became invested in slavery rather than in industrial improvements. Based upon the 1860 U.S. Census, there were almost a whopping total of four million slaves in the South alone. In fact, the more slaves an owner had, the more prestige. “Most slave owners owned fewer than five slaves, and only 12 percent of Southerners had twenty or more slaves. Many whites who had no slaves looked with envy upon the wealthy, and to a degree admired them.” This hierarchy had a clearly defined social structure which created distinctions between rich and poor whites as well as racial segregation. This agricultural society and its strict hierarchy only increased the social and racial disparities found in the southern region of the United States.

In Spite of the devastating history of segregation in the United States. A lot has changed in the past fifty years since segregation ended. The United States shifted from arresting African Americans for using “white only” facilities to integrated schools all over the country. Influential individuals such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr helped pave the way for African Americans to live as equals to along with their white counterparts in the United States of America.

According to Merriam-Webster the word “segregation” was first known to be used in 1555. It is defined as the separation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group by enforcing or voluntary residence in a restricted area, by barriers to social intercourse, by separate educational facilities, or by other discriminatory means.

Segregation, an word that has haunted countless AfricanAmericans for years upon years. Segregation is the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. It has cut AfricanAmericans short from many opportunities, leaving us dumb founded.

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

makes men lose their heads--they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a

Most of the historians had a belief that the end of American civil war brought with it recommendable changes as far as racism was concerned. This was not possible as there were white Americans who were conservatives and could not let go the racial discrimination, which they believed was the best order of life. The whites they maintained white supremacy by drafting Jim Crow law designed to separate white and black Americans. Jim Crow also consisted of societal behaviors all with the intension of making blacks inferior .Due to the laws and behaviors, African Americans following the Civil War faced economic, social and racial hardships.

In general, the twentieth century battle for social equality created a persisting change of the legitimate status of African Americans and different casualties of segregation. It likewise expanded the obligation of the legislature to implement social equality laws and the procurements of the Civil War-period protected changes. Social liberties changes did not, in any case, adjust different determinants of the subordinate status of African Americans who stay in racially isolated groups where lodging, government funded schools, and human services administrations are second rate. Like flexibility battles in Africa, the African American opportunity battle disposed of servitude and lawfully commanded types of racial abuse, however the relatives of previous slaves and colonized individuals for the most part stayed in subordinate positions inside of the worldwide entrepreneur financial request.

The south legalized segregation and institutionalized racism towards African American in 1877. Whites passed qualification laws, Poll Taxes, Literacy Test and Grandfather Clause. These laws were served to deprive blacks the right to vote and of legal right. They were called the Jim crow laws, these laws began in the 1960’s and continued in force until 1989’s. They kept the black people separated from the white people

The South was in ruin. Politically, economically and socially, the post-Civil War South had to rebuild everything from its infrastructure to an economy no longer based on slave labor (“The New South” Lecture). Reconstruction found the southern United States in crisis and the rest of the country on the verge of exponential growth. Fortune seekers and families alike began moving West, followed by African Americans leaving the South in record numbers in the 1880s, heading toward the industrial cities of the northeast (“Industrialism” Lecture). A large influx of immigrant workers coupled with new management techniques and technologies, including assembly line production, created an America in transition, especially for women. Black, white, native-born or immigrant, American women found themselves moving West, helping rebuild their communities, or working in factories (Compilation of information from multiple lectures). These women in transition began entering into the normally male-dominated public sphere—an unprecedented move creating a “new product” of women, according to Dorothy Richardson in her autobiography The Long Day, which discusses the transitory nature of the life of working women and how they struggled to survive (Richardson 279/”Reforming America” Lecture). From 1865 to 1917, the social and economic instability of the United States impacted women, causing them to employ coping mechanisms to counteract the uncertain times.

Ever feel that weird feeling when some Black and White people congregate? Well that is the endless but more subtle feel of segregation. In this paper we will address how segregation began. The time period in which segregation began in is one of many changes. With these changes came opinions. We will approach both the Whites perspective and the Blacks perspective on segregation.