Many of these facilities were, education, healthcare, transport, cinemas, restaurants and churches and even housing and estates were segregated. This shows the extent white went to separate them from the ‘inferior’ race. Jim Crow laws limited black Americans from having a better way of life as they were made poorer, didn’t have the opportunity to managerial roles as they were only allowed the low paying jobs and weren’t equal to white people increasing poor conditions, also, led to unequal or no voting rights in coloured communities. Under the Fifteenth Amendment black people had legal rights to vote across America. However, many southern states found ways around the laws to disenfranchise the black populations.
Public schools, transportation, restrooms, restaurants, water fountains and most public areas were segregated. Whites used these laws to keep their social dominance over blacks in the south. The Plessy vs. Ferguson Case all started when Homer Plessy sat in a white car of East Louisiana railroad, The Separate Car Act of 1892 requested him not to. He then was arrested when he identified himself as African-American and the case went to the United States Supreme Court. His lawyer argued the act violated the thirteenth and fourteenth Amendments.
The common good was affected one way by these because the majority population in the south was African American. The fact they could not vote caused a lot of problems, such the voting of local sheriffs and mayors. This caused in abuse of the police force. Dogs and even fire hoses that can remove flesh were turned on any demonstrators fighting for their right. Spartacus.com states, “The 1964 Civil Rights Act made racial discrimination in public places, such as theaters, restaurants and hotels, illegal.
Many Southern states were segregated, they followed the supreme courts decision in 1896; 'Separate but equal' this meant that they were still segregated but blacks had equal rights. Segregation was the separation of white people from black, some states tried to keep control over black people's segregation by; 'Jim crow' laws which kept black people segregated/separated from white, this involved separate schools, toilets and drinking fountains. Desegregation had become a problem in the 1950's, largely because of the racial hatred of white southerners towards blacks, this racial hatred had originated from the attitudes of white people towards black people after slavery was abolished in 1864, many southern states had 'Jim crow' laws which discriminated against African Americans. However, in 1954 the Brown family challenged these laws by suing the city school board for forbidding their 8 year old daughter, who was black, from attending the white school which was nearby, instead Linda Brown was forced to attend the segregated school which was a long distance away. The Brown family's case was brought to the Supreme Court by the NAACP; they were an organisation which fought for the rights of coloured people.
DHL and the men could not reach an agreement, therefore, on behalf of the federal government, the EEOC helped to process the charges and pursue litigation. The EEOC has filed racial discrimination charges against DHL. African Americans have been the subject of discrimination since the 1600s when they were brought to America as slaves. From 1890 to 1940 the Jim Crow laws enacted throughout The United States openly segregated Black and White Americans in public places. Black Americans were publically beaten, frightened, and even killed (Magar, 2010).
What was the significance of ‘Brown v Topeka’, 1954? Brown v Topeka was an event carried out during the time of racism and segregation across America; the court case was brought up as some black Americans believed being segregated was unconstitutional. The court case started because a father (Oliver Brown) was annoyed that his daughter was denied an education at an all-white school, which was simply a couple of blocks down from her house. This court case in my opinion acted like a catalyst for further change for black Americans. In my essay, I will be evaluating the significance of the Supreme Court judgment about Brown v Topeka.
How far do you agree that events at Little Rock were the most important for the Civil Rights campaign? During the 1940s – 60s, the South of America was totally segregated, separating the white people from the blacks: from schools and jobs, to travelling and shopping. The Black African American community faced severe hardships during this period, in terms of: lynching, slavery, torture and segregation alone, as racism and discrimination were immense. Due to the unstoppable, horrifying racism portrayed in the USA, the ‘Civil Rights Campaign,’ a campaign which aimed to abolish the main cause of racism and discrimination, begun to expand during the 1950s. While there may have been many who disliked and hated African Americans, the Civil Rights campaigners crafted and cunningly planned tactics to permanently change the opinions of the brain-washed racists using methods and people, such as: Little Rock, Martin Luther King and Rosa parks (bus boycotts) – as source 7 displays R. Parks being arrested for refusing to give up her seat for sitting in the ‘white only seats.’ Racism was also stored in the hearts and minds, which can be identified through Source 3, which shows the two separated sinks that a black and white person would use – the clean, spacious tap for the whites, and the dirty, tiny tap that the black people would use.
(Griffin, 1996:45) This example is an illustration of the norm as it states that the Negro population is treated extremely poorly and includes racist remarks, cutting and defaming names for who the Negroes are. It speaks to the conditions they are subjected to, inclusive of what most people would take for granted, a place to eat and access to a bathroom. Another example from Black Like Me of a Norm, is when Griffin went to the bus station to purchase a bus ticket and the ticket seller did not even want to serve him or even look at him. Pg 50 “When the lady ticket-seller saw me, her otherwise attractive face turned sour,violently so. The look was so
You can basically say we didn’t have an education at all. By us being black we didn’t have good teachers, clean environments, etc. Segregation was a big problem during this time frame. The blacks couldn’t do anything like the whites. We had to drink from separate water fountains, the whites ate in the restaurant and that blacks got their food in the back, we couldn’t go to the same school, etc.
How did Martin Luther King campaign against prejudice and discrimination in USA? America in the 20th century was a highly racist society, especially in the southern states. Black people were treated unfairly and discriminated against, white people justified the situation by saying the black race were inferior. In 17 states throughout America, there were laws segregating the black from the whites in places like parks, cafes, buses, public toilets, swimming pools and even drinking fountains. Black people also had separate schools and universities, the white schools had more money.