The Segregation 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.

Just fifty years ago, America was a society of segregation and racism. The dictionary defines racism as “the belief that a particular race is superior to another.” Although it is clear times have changed, racism is still seen in modern american society. It’s also clear that relationships between African Americans and whites are generally better than they were in the forties and fifties. Today, it is rare to witness a black man walk down the street and step off the sidewalk to let a white man walk by, or to see a black man sitting on a different section of the bus or train because a white man told him he has too. But superiority of races is still happening. A lot of this has the do with the ignorance of others. Passed down generation to

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

Imagine being an African American person living in a world of segregation but he still has a dream, a dream to become a boxer in a league predominantly white and being looked down on because of his skin color. Segregation in the 1900’s was cruel and divided because “After the Civil War, millions of enslaved African Americans hoped to join the larger society as equal citizens” but unfortunately were not embraced as equals by much of white America (History Staff). Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans in southern states still lived in an unequal world of segregation.

Society, as we know it today, consists of people who have evolved and developed mentally, culturally, geographically, and physiologically. Because people come from different walks of life, segregation has played a significant role in America. It is seemingly inescapable. The term segregation is known for its infamous history and the negative impact it has had on society. Due to its reputation, it is very uncommon that one studies the word in a positive way contrary to its negative connotation, to find that it has two sides, both pros and cons. Due to this fact, in this paper I will discuss the pros and cons that can be associated with segregation.

United States in the 1910s was a very different place than what it is today. One of the many ways that the US varied from its modern day counterpart is through racial segregation. Way back in the early 1900’s it wasn’t out of the ordinary to see a person of color be treated far harsher than someone that was white. This is the harsh reality that is our countries history. One of the many cases of the harsh treatment of someone that was African American during these times is Ota Benga. Ota Benga was a Mbuti pygmy that is known for being put in a cage and put on display in the Bronx Zoo in the early 1900s.

As an inhabitant of planet earth, I have watched the people grow and prosper and then fall back to old habits. Years ago, we were separated by race and even though we claim that time is over, it is not. Our country is a great example of segregation because we not only segregate by race, but by gender and sexual orientation as well. America was founded on preconceived expectations of gender and race leading to a segregation of consciousness that structures opinions around the injustices of stereotypes.

In the 1950’s the world was segregated into two different groups, African Americans and whites. If you were white you go any power you wanted and did not have any restrictions on your life. If you were an African American though your life was very rough and unpleasant. Your could not go shopping at the same stores as whites, drink from the same drinking fountain. Ride On the same parts of the busses, and finally one of the most major was not having your children in the sames schools as whites did. School segregation was a very serious topic to talk about because it was such a strong opinion based argument because whites did not want blacks in their schools and blacks just wanted freedom and to be treated as actual people. If the supreme court did uphold the segregation in Brown v. Board we today would

Prior to the start of WWII, the South was still deeply rooted with segregation and racism. The Jim Crow laws were still in full force and were law, not just a suggestion. Schools were separated, Blacks could not vote, and they lacked basic civil liberties and citizen rights. The North was very similar, though it did not have the Jim Crows laws. Even so, schools were segregated due to the formation of ghettos in cities. There were still separated bathrooms, and divided seating in restaurants, but only because white citizens choose to make it that way.

Segregation caused distress and anger between the races in America. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites all throughout America. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) backed desegregation of public places 100% (Stokes 80). After the reconstruction period was over, America had extreme economical and industrial growth (“Racial Segregation” 2). Brown vs. Board also helped desegregate America in schools. Segregation affected many people in many ways and created violence and distress between blacks and whites within the country.

I believe that most Segregation is fear based and a small portion of it is race based. There are many people that have not allowed themselves to connect with other races and cultures. Their knowledge of other races and cultures is likely derived from other people opinions, as well as our Countries history, and stereotypes that are played out on a daily basis in the world.

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Without the history and events that happened in the past, America would be nowhere near it is today. There has been so much struggle in the country, especially regarding race. Segregation has been difficult to fix and has been a struggle for so many years. African Americans specifically had to deal with so much inequality and unfairness throughout their lives and are still dealing with it now. Back then, before the Civil Rights Movement, blacks lived in fear because of the violence and anger towards them. Besides the fact that blacks have been trying to fight for their own freedom and equality for so long, people think the Civil Rights Movement is over and was fully successful, but the fight still exists, just in a lesser manner. To focus on

After the Civil War, the Unites States became segregated with African Americans behind white folks. Many people, especially, African Americans, did not like segregation and tried to get rid of it. Many had campaigns trying to win other people over to help them get rid of segregation, but they usually did not work. However, five communities decided to go to the courts. They wanted their children of color, to be able to learn as well as the white people. Then, in 1954, the court got rid of segregation in one school and changed history forever.

My section was about the rise of segregation. Segregation is when humans are separated by race, class, or group. During segregation whites and blacks had separate bathrooms, railroad cars, and basically everything was separated by race. Segregation is a horrible thing that no human should ever go through. The rise of segregation happened in the late 1800s when the Southern states passed laws that denied African Americans to vote. There were many brave people such as Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. Du Bois who stood up and made a difference. These people got attacked for pointing out that segregation was horrible. Many African Americans were lynched for absolutely no reason during this time. The whites continuously tried to prohibit voting rights