Segregation In American History

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Equality was always apart of America right, wrong. Segregation was a very big part of America before people took an action. Segregation was a main part of American History until people took actions for integration and it has had a further impact on America. In history, segregation affected everyone according to “Wayback”’s article of desegregation. In Little Rock, Arkansas all schools are segregated just like all the schools in the United States. Most whites believed that the blacks were invading the white’s life and they did not like that at all. The whites hated the blacks so much that even for the blacks the water fountains and seats were worse than the whites. Luckily, Elizabeth Eckford was a teenage girl that was used to segregation

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