, U.S. History 1.06 Assessment 9-24-15 Social Limitations: During the Civil War times and after the war, the African Americans had it rough. The Whites and the Blacks were not exactly friends, more like business partners if anything. The African Ameri8cans were not allowed to live in the same neighborhood as the Whites. They had to live in separate communities and even then there were still problems. The African American children did not attend the same schools as the Whites.
Back to 1930s, prejudice is the most concerned thing of people in that period of time. It creates such hatred, crimes and racial segregation toward people. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Boo Radley, Tom Robinson and Atticus Finch are the victims of prejudice. It drives them into rough situations which they have to find the way to save themselves from this problem. Boo Radley is one of the character who is discriminated in several ways.
Also because of the discrimination they lived in awful conditions with dusty floors no glass windows and generally underprivileged. Segregation is an effect of intolerance because it is separating them and making the rights between black Americans and white Americans unfair. And because of the Jim Crow laws racism increased highly and the effect was obviously negative to the Black
One example of this was the simple that no able bodied man was able to live in these projects along with their families. They were forced to struggle on their own to look for low-end jobs. This idea of the American family that consisted of a working father and a working mother clearly weren’t in affect here. It proved hurtful to the lifestyle of many African American families. As a women stated in the film, “The strong and tightly knit families I had grew up around had begun to shatter and it was one of the most tragic things I had seen”(Pruitt-Igoe).
As I read , Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” I feel a great sense of sorrow and shame . For those people of , Both , Present and the Past , that exhibit such hate and prejudice against their fellow man . Dr. Martin Luther King's letter is a response to the criticism he received from the , "white moderate", pertaining to his use of nonviolent protest in an attempt to attain racial equality . Martin Luther King , expresses exactly why he and his followers are performing these nonviolent protests . Dr. Martin Luther King , stated a list of true yet unbelievable awful events that happened day-to-day to African Americans .
Revelation! Slavery was a big part of the United States around the 1830’s. The whites and slave owners were very cruel to the African Americans. The made them go through long hours of tenuous work with little food and sleep. If the African Americans didn’t obey or perform to the expectations of the slave owners they were viciously beaten.
From the racial prejudice used against Tom Robinson, to the economical prejudice against the Cunningham family, To Kill a Mockingbird has shown how people in Maycomb look at people. This book truly shows how the people in Maycomb Alabama are prejudice towards each other. It is very devastating that people would ever treat people like this and be prejudice like they are in this
During this particular time blacks in America had no rights. Society viewed them as niggers. Because of this prejudice many of them, like Crooks "retired into the terrible protective self-respect of the negro". Lennie is a victim of social prejudice in the fact that, being retarded, he couldn’t socially interact without the natural ease of George. Women also had very few rights, like Curley’s wife had to be dependent on Curley’s dad and him for shelter.
Viewing the world is especially hard when World War ll is going on and discrimination against black people is overtaking the country. World War ll was discrimination against Jews, and America was discriminating black people. But the kids in school were taught that what they were doing to the Jews was bad even though they were doing the exact same thing to the black
They dealt with many stressors throughout just one day. Slaves were constantly denied important rights, constantly treated as inferiors, and constantly doing restless work for their owner; whereas the white race was granted many rights, had many more opportunities, and basically walked all over the black race. Whites thought of it as a bad thing to be black causing a sense of inequality for decades. They treated blacks a way that no human being wants to be treated and because of this the black race became angry at whites. The act of slavery also caused other tensions.