What Is Segregation Affect The Civil Rights Movement?

Segregation was allowed to become an institution in the south with the failure of Reconstruction after the Civil War. When the federal government abandoned Reconstruction in 1877, the south were allowed to started segregation by passing Jim Crow laws. Freedmen were unable to gain land and became slaves to the sharecropping system. Sharecropping tied African-Americans to land they didn’t own and never allowed them to become economically independent. Segregation as an institution affected all aspects of everyday life for African-Americans and existed on many levels. Southern states passed segregation laws on nearly everything like schools, restaurants, hospitals, and public transportation. Racism

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

During the early 1930’s through the mid 1960’s there were many different approaches African American’s took for achieving social changes, and the Civil rights they deserved. Many great African American leader’s such as Martin Luther King Jr, Malcom X, and James Baldwin contributed towards the betterment of blacks living in America. Aside from individual African American leaders there was also groups that fought for black civil rights such as The Black Power Movement, Black Panthers, and Civil Rights Activist. Other events that transpired during this time period had also effected the civil rights movement in America. For instance: The altercation with Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white male ultimately led to The Montgomery Bus boycott protest,

To make a difference in society, it only takes one person or a group of people to stand up and fight for what they believe in. After the Civil War had ended, blacks had finally won their freedom, or so they thought. During the years 1865-1866, the Black Codes were put into action and denied African Americans their newly given freedom. The North, got rid of the Black Codes during Reconstruction. After the Black Codes were successfully removed, the Jim Crow Laws took their place. The laws that were now in play allowed for legal racial discrimination and segregation. This caused the Civil Rights Movement to begin. This included a chain of protests between 1954 and 1968 to occur. The Brown v. Board case was a milestone in U.S. history. For years,

The Supreme Court verdict in the case of Brown was no doubt the highest event in a legal crusade that arose in the United States in the year 1938, and it also influenced other battles in Texas and Oklahoma. While Brown v. Board of Education ended the battle for one civil rights movement, it seems like it was just the beginning of another civil right movement. The Brow case was rule based

At the beginning of the civil rights movement there were many confrontations to make racial moderation possible. In 1954, Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka was introduced, stablishing that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

African Americans wanted social change in relations to integration after the Brown vs. Board decision, which stated that segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The African American community began to get frustrated after seeing no change in their treatment since the passing of the 15th Amendment, which granted African American males the right to vote. Protests rose in the South, many of which garnered a peaceful approach, such as sit-ins. Fred Lindsey furthered this point by stating, “Protesters would walk into hotels, restaurants, and libraries where African Americans were not allowed and sit down, quietly refusing to leave when asked.” This instilled fear into businesses who were worried about losing money as a result of these protest,

Segregation was one of the biggest problems of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Segregation is when people are excluded because of their race, where they’re from, or their religious beliefs. This went on in the United States from about 1877 and ended in 1964. This act started to dull down when brave African Americans stood up to the unjust treatment they had to face everyday. Segregation is wrong because it goes against the constitution, it’s unfair and biased, and lastly, it causes unnecessary violence along with an unacceptable example for the future.

If I said the phrase “I have a dream”, there’d be lots of you who’d know what I’m talking about.

Many pictures that refer back to the time of the Civil Rights Movement are unpleasant and offensive to people today. There is a photo that shows black men walking while at gunpoint holding signs that say, “I AM a man”. The photo is disheartening because there is no reason for them to be aimed at for saying that they are simply men. No man should feel that they are not worthy of being called a man. Also, the photo looks as though the black men weren’t allowed to look at the white men in the eyes. How could anyone feel satisfied knowing that it was standard for African Americans to be treated this way.

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.

Civil rights groups such as the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) heavily influenced the abolishment of the Jim Crow laws. The ACMHR was a civil rights group that focused on demolishing segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. In the Birmingham Manifesto, the President of the ACMHR quotes the Declaration of Independence to relate civil rights in order to prove that they are people too and should be treated equally. Besides the ACMHR, another group that affected the civil rights movement is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). This group is led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr who was a very influential leader regarding civil rights. His wife, Coretta Scott King, wrote about his intentions in a 1969 LIFE Magazine

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

     “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.

As I learn more about the realities of education, there was one issue that sparked my interest and passion – segregation. Though it is difficult to see first-hand, I can definitely see remnants of segregation through comparison of resources available at schools I’ve worked at. My belief that education serves as an accessible tool for social mobility led me to explore the issue of segregation with the perspective of a future educator. Over 50 years ago in the Brown v. Board of Education case, the Supreme Court deemed that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. With this in mind, I was under the impression that schools were not segregated (at least to a far lesser extent). However, I was shocked to learn that segregation in schools