The Segregation Of The United States

The conflicting ideologies on slavery of the North and South clashed heavily, inevitably leading to the South’s secession from the Union. Abraham Lincoln wished to suffocate slavery in the states in which it already existed by not allowing the institution to expand into the new territories. In his house divided speech he says “In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed. ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.” The two mindsets could not coexist forever as they were too vastly different. The issue of morality in slavery clearly had split in half with the justification

At the time of the African-American Civil Rights movement, segregation was abundant in all aspects of life. Separation, it seemed, was the new motto for all of America. But change was coming. In order to create a nation of true equality, segregation had to be eradicated throughout all of America. Although most people tend to think that it was only well-known, and popular figureheads such as Martin Luther King Junior or Rosa Parks, who were the sole launchers of the African-American Civil Rights movement, it is the rights and responsibilities involved in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision which have most greatly impacted the world we live in today, based upon how desegregation and busing plans have affected our public school

The redlining practices of the Federal Government established economic segregation in San Antonio. Denying minorities access to federally backed home loans put them at an economic disadvantage when it comes to accumulating wealth. This also creates a cycle of poverty and crime in those neighborhoods.

In Lincoln’s A House Divided speech he talks about how as he states, “A house divided against itself cannot stand” (732). He says that he doesn’t expect everyone to agree with the end decision but the house in the end will either be antislavery or proslavery. As he states, “It will become all one thing, or all the other” (732). He believed that slavery was the ultimate extinction of the people and that the North was the new antislavery realm and the South was still the old proslavery realm that he was trying to persuade to become antislavery. Throughout his speech Lincoln tries to argue why the state should be antislavery but he keeps getting shut down. As he states:

Racial segregation has been embedded in southern society ever since the birth of the America. However, even though documents such as Brown vs. Board of Education and the fourteenth amendment has been instituted into the constitution, we are still facing racial segregation throughout America that is unconstitutional and unjust. The south of America, especially Alabama, are facing several claims of racial tension in their prison system and their way to solve the tension between the black and white population is through segregation. The prison system has faced a lot of backlash, as 65% of their inmates consist of African Americans and 35% of them consist of white Americans. From time to time there has been violent encounters between white and black Americans, which have led to many unfortunate deaths. In order to simmer down the tension, the prison system thought it would be necessary to isolate inmates by race. The decision of segregation in Alabama’s prison system takes us back into history, when African Americans’ faced separate but equal law (Plessey vs. Ferguson) that separated whites from blacks in public facilities. This action is total nonsense and Alabama’s governing systems needs to find methods in which can diversify black and white American’s together to unify with each other through actives and interactions.

Bradley, Stefan. "Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955-1969." The Journal of African American History 90.1-2 (2005): 171+. World History Collection. Web. 31 Aug. 2015.

Abraham Lincoln once stated, "A House divided against itself cannot stand. I Believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the house to fall. But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other". More than anything else, differing interpretations about the Civil War drove the debate over the meaning of the Constitution and of the Union.

The history of our culture has said it is okay to separate individuals based on the color of their skin. However, not all believed that segregation was right when it came to the education system. When the time came to Desegreted School it was meet by resistant, but the effects of this historical movement can still be seen in the 21st century.

Wannabes, one of the biggest problems America faces in this day and age, those who wish to be something they are not, and in many ways, should not be. In our time, it’s found that more people try to be something they aren’t rather than embrace who, or what they are. Just take a look at the white children of America, sagging their pants, using slang terms, and many more similarities to the black children in America. Parents don’t understand a word their children say, families are becoming more distant as a result, there’s such a big difference between my generation and the last, that families shift apart because of these differences. This happens all throughout America, walk into any high school, and the results will be the same, the majority

After further research on each parts of the reconstruction, I have concluded that the African Americans did not reach full citizenship for many reasons, but three stood out: Black codes, Sharecropping and Poll taxes. First of all, the Black codes served three purposes and most codes called for the segregation of blacks and whites in public places. The purposes were to limit the rights of freedmen, help planters find workers to replace their slaves and to keep freedmen at the bottom of the social order in the South. Although this helped them on their way it also tore them down. Segregation came with the codes, Black kids had no public school to go to, African Americans right to vote or serve on juries was denied, and work was scarce. Therefore

Before the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and the enactment of it 1865, the issue of slavery was dividing the nation. Many, mainly those in the Northern states, began to view slavery as immoral. Those in the Southern states didn’t agree with them, causing a secession

The contemporary debate regarding the distinctive patterns of poverty among African Americans revolves around the question, “is it class or race that causes (and perpetuates) such misfortune of African Americans?” Scholars have looked at patterns of residential segregation in their attempts to answer such a question. Massey and Denton explore racial residential segregation in the United States throughout the 20th century. They argue that the making and concentration of the (African American) underclass in inner cities resulted from institutional and interpersonal racism in the housing market that perpetuates already existing racial segregation. Similarly, Reardon and colleagues conclude that residential segregation by income level occurs all across racial groups, but it is especially problematic poorer Blacks and Hispanics from their investigation of neighborhood income composition by household race and income at the turn of the 21st century. Thus, residential segregation by both class and race perpetuate structural disadvantages and misfortunes of African Americans in today’s American society.

Today, we are living in the age when societies are integrated. Our schools are integrated, businesses are integrated, and the last President of the United States was African American. But only 150 years ago African Americans were considered property in half of the country and the thought of free African Americans with the same rights granted in the United States Constitution as Caucasians were

Abraham Lincoln once said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other." (Lincoln 's 'House-Divided ' Speech in Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858). The critical issue of slavery throughout the 19th century in America, was a heavily debated topic. Due to this disagreement of the bondage of slaves, America was split into two distinct entities, the Union and the Confederacy. Both of these bodies of states struggled over the idea of slavery, and whether or not it should be enforced, but both for different reasons. In the North, or the Union States, slavery was looked down upon being morally wrong, while on the other hand, the Southerners, or the Confederate States, believed the exact opposite. In the year of 1863, the issue of slavery would start to diminish due to a very important proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln. This prominent decree, the Emancipation Proclamation, would settle the heated dispute between the Union and the Confederacy for all years to come. Although not one slave was initially freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in the Southern states, the deeper symbolic meaning of the manifesto

It was stated, “The House Divided” speech was the most radical, or at least the most radical sounding, public statement that Lincoln had yet made” (Fredrickson pg. 67). In 1858 Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a seat on the senate by the Illinois Republican Convention. Lincoln presented the speech “The House Divided” Many believed the speech was controversial and too strong for the occasion. Lincoln explained in his speech that the division between slave states and free states was causing a rift in the country. “In a letter of 1855, Lincoln had asked the question: “Can we as a nation continue together permanently—forever—half slave and half free?” (Fredrickson pg. 67) Even though he believed that the United states would overcome the odds and continue to be united, Lincoln felt that as the country continued to grow the separation of the southern and northern states could cause the country to fall apart. Lincoln fell in with the anti-slave culture. He was a member of the Republican party. Lincolns mentality at the time that he wrote the speech was worrisome He was worried that the country would fall apart, and he was determined to win the seat on the senate that he was nominated for by the Illinois Republican Convention. Abraham Lincoln made recommendations that the country decide whether they should all support slavery or be against slavery. He was also confident that the country would make the correct decisions to either become a free country or slave country. Lincoln just