Was Segregation Justified

Every American knows that every person born in America has equal rights or do they? Well they should but some people still didn’t get it and they tormented others for there race even though they were born in America. Segregation was just a horrible time period for all colored people. Segregation was also very wrong.

America was highly separated. The blacks ,or coloreds, had nastier restaurants, bathrooms , and etc… than the whites. The white side of everything was so much better than the coloreds people's stuff. Many blacks were fed up with being secondary and not having clean bathrooms and nicer restaurants. One of the many blacks fed up with it is Rosa Parks. Buses were separated by front and back. whites in the front blacks in the back. “ When the bus became crowded, the driver instructed Mrs. Parks and the three other seated in that row, and all african americans, to vacate their seats for the white passengers boarding. She argued that she was not in a seat reserved for whites. He (the bus driver) called the cops.” (An Act of Courage, The Arrest of Rosa Parks) She was arrested for defying a bus driver which was a crime in Montgomery, Alabama. She was apprehended and incarcerated for a short time. When she called her mom the first thing her mom asked was “Did They

The blacks were harassed if they didn't use different movie theaters, sit in the back in the back of the buses, blacks had to have a separate one of everything. Blacks even had to have different trains, so they couldn't ride with the white people. In the same way, blacks felt like they were being violated of their rights because they were forced to use a different one of everything. It's not until the case of Brown V Board Of Education in the 1950's and 1960's is what ended segregation. The constitution was rewritten by many states to conform the 14th Amendment. In addition, blacks immediately felt like regular people. (Plessy vs.

African Americans were never treated the same as other Americans. One day a black man who looked white named Homer Plessy got sick of sitting in a Jim Crow car so he decided to purchase a first class ticket in the white’s only section on the train. Plessy told the conductor that he was 1/8 black and he refused to move from the car. Removed from the train Plessy was in jail overnight and was released on a 500 dollar bond. Homer Plessy protested that his 13th and his 14th amendments rights were violated. This case became known as Plessy v. Ferguson. This case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.

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.

Black Americans were second class citizens ensured by the structure of southern society pre-1955. The southern states had white only restaurants, white only rest zones in bus centers etc. Montgomery, Alabama, buses were segregated with specific areas on a bus reserved for white customers and other seats for black costumers. After a full days work, Rosa Parks got a bus home. The bus was “full” in the sense that all the seats for white Americans were in use. Parks was seated in a seat for Black Americans, a white man got on board and found that there were no open “white” seats. The bus

Segregation emerged and it wasn’t until a century after that segregation was starting to be dealt with. Segregation prohibited African Americans to enter specific facilities, public places, and restaurants. Segregation caused an immense amount of violence towards African Americans, where African Americans were lynched the night prior to voting day in Mississippi, so that they wouldn’t be able to vote. Segregation made a significant mental change on African American individuals. There were African Americans who had given up on the removal of segregation and accepted that they lived in a society where they were to be belittled and treated as unequal. There were those whom were in the middle class that saw segregation as an opportunity to profit because of economical and educational security. Finally, there were those who grew tired of oppression and advocated towards violence due to their hatred and bitterness of the white race. In my opinion none of these were the right ways to approach segregation. The African American race should have always looked for ways to demolish segregation. A way that would catch people’s attention and yet keep them safe. Direct Action was the correct way to approach segregation. It caught the public’s attention, as well as made the government deal with the issue and still kept people

The 14th Amendment states, “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property. ”(Source 3). Liberty means that your free within society from oppressive treatment. So therefore segregation violated what is clearly stated in the Constitution. ”His

Segregation has changed society in many ways. Overtime, most people thought that it was okay for whites and blacks to be separated, but overall segregation is wrong. It was then officially known as constitutional. This led to the start of the Civil Rights War where African Americans fought for their equality. Segregation is wrong because both races were not equal, but a few were recognised for fighting back for their rights, and started boycotts to the stop the segregationists for protesting.

I say that segregation is the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. Many Americans don’t want to admit it, but I’ll say that segregation is still around, sometimes by design and sometimes by choice. According to a study last year, 43% of Latinos and 38% of blacks go to schools where less than 10% of their peers are white, but beyond that, we often fail to talk about how segregation impacts us personally. How it permeates not only many of our public and private institutions, but American culture at large easily talk about culture or social segregation an area that we have control over, via the restaurants we patronize, the bars we drink at and the places we worship. People who have studied race, spent months abroad in India or Africa, tasted the best fufu and mofongo, read Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Pablo Neruda, and who may even have black “friends” or lovers, still too often manage to have a community that doesn't reflect diversity in their broader city or

It made desegregation the law of the land as it made discrimination based on race, gender, religion, or national origin either in employment and in public facilities illegal. This ultimately meant that any previous laws and future instances that violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 are deemed unconstitutional such as Executive Order 9066 or in Lau V. Nichols (1974). Although intentional and forced acts of segregation as illegal, segregation still passively exist in our society today through modern ethnic ghettos. With limited resources and opportunities available to them, leaving the ghetto and into a nicer neighborhood is very difficult and expensive. In other words, poverty causes segregation in

As segregation laws became common, African Americans were not treated equal. They faced many hardships such as police brutality, they were denied access to social programs, houses and even jobs.

Ferguson case allowed legal segregation to continue for more than 60 years in the south. Homer Plessy, a light-skinned, calm, well dressed, 1/8th black man, entered the first class railroad car on June 7, 1982. “When he took his seat, Plessy triggered a series of legal actions that would eventually reach the Supreme Court of the United States.”(Fireside, 5) Plessy had absolutely no intention of reaching his destination. He was charged with a crime for not moving to the car in which he belonged. This was one of the first sit in’s in the United States. The Louisiana Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court ruled against him. They said that the cars were “separate but equal” even though this was untrue and that it was constitutional. Finally, the ruling was overturned in 1954. Plessy vs. Ferguson was the most criticized decision the court made of all

     “Whites were there because they chose to be; blacks were there because they had no choice.” (p. 158) This quote, from the essay written by Howard N. Rabinowitz, encompasses many, if not all of the ideas that go along with racial segregation. It is a well-known fact that racial segregation did create a separate and subordinate status for blacks, however, seeing as how at the turn of the century the integration of blacks and whites was a seemingly unrealistic idea, segregation could be seen as somewhat of an improvement from the blacks’ previous position in the U.S. as slaves.

Black people and white people had to sit in different areas of the bus, whites sitting in the front and blacks sitting in the back. The purpose of this law as to prevent people of different races from interacting with each other. On December first 1955, a woman named Rosa Parks decided to protest the law of blacks and whites sitting on different ends of the bus, by sitting in the front where the white people were supposed to sit. When someone white approached her she would not give up her seat for them. When Rosa Parks protested she was jailed. Through Rosa Park’s experience, I can see why the time of Jim Crow laws were very hard for this country. People were punished because they fought for their rights, by doing something as simple as not giving up their seat on a bus. The protests were peaceful yet people still got