Racial Segregation In The United States

Throughout history in the United States, people of color have had to constantly fight for equality. To this day, the daily struggle against discrimination and racism still continues. Racial segregation has appeared in all parts of the world where there are multiracial communities (Racial Segregation). Not only have these racial minorities struggled against segregation, but they also have had to constantly fight against racism. Southern blacks in the 1950's and 60's started the civil right movements to stop the continuing pattern of racial segregation. The word segregation refers to a system of forced separation. It can be either a legal or an illegal thing, it is the act of seperating economic and social privileges of one group,…show more content…
Their sole purpose was to frighten newly freed African Americans and to take away their rights. By the 1990s the Klan had broken up into small groups, mostly in the Southern states. The early Klan was called the Invisible Empire of the South. Klan members wore white robes and hoods to hide their faces and to frighten people. With intimidation and threats, Klans men drove blacks and their white defenders out of their communities, destroying their crops and burning their houses and barns. After their raids Klan members often left behind a burning cross as a symbol of the Klan. The Klan’s membership went up and down over the years. It reached a peak of about 4 million members in the 1920s. At that time the Klan’s list of enemies grew to include Catholics, Jews, immigrants, and others. The Klan grew again in the 1960s. It was the time of the civil rights movement, which worked to gain equal rights for African Americans. Klan members protested this movement by bombing, whipping, and shooting African Americans in the South. Since then the number of Klan members has fallen to a few thousand people. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and other police groups have watched the Klan and worked to prevent its members from hurting people. Courts have sent some Klan members to jail for crimes that they committed many years earlier (Ku Klux…show more content…
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