Segregation In The 1930s

Tracy Emelia
Ms. Saskia Marlissa
English 9.1
2 May 2016
Effects of Segregation in the 1930s
Martin Luther King Jr himself wrote “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls”. During the 1930s, black people were segregated with the white ones, and blacks were discriminated. Segregation is the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart (Oxford Dictionary). Segregation in the 1930s gave a huge impact to black people in terms of facilities, job opportunities and right to vote.
The facilities between black and white people was separated in result of segregation (Lawson). Lawson claims that the black were separated from

The article “Why was there so much racial inequality in the USA between 1929 and 1945?” emphasizes that black people was given the lowest and the most awful jobs and education. This article is saying that most of the worst jobs were given to black people because of the limited knowledge that they have. Many black people were unschooled and given unfair education. “Racial Segregation in the American South: Jim Crow Laws” observed that a census on 1790 in US at 757,000 blacks lived in the United States, of whom 700,000 were slaves. This article shows and explains the amount of people being segregated in terms of their jobs, which is becoming a

Paying tax is necessary when black people want to vote; many of them were poor and not able to pay the tax (“Why was there so much racial inequality in the USA between 1929 and 1945?”). The point is, that due to the worst jobs that black people have, they also get little amount of wages so they are slightly poor and can’t pay the tax. They were given this kind of rule to prevent them from voting. Black people needed to do difficult exams to have their right to vote (“Why was there so much racial inequality in the USA between 1929 and 1945?”). The article acknowledges that when they passed these test, in order to make them unable to vote, someone will be sent to threaten them. The essence of this article argument is that the whites will do anything to prevent the black people from voting such as making hard test and threaten them.
The overall effect of segregation in the 1930s causes black people to be segregation in many ways such as in their schools, jobs, houses, and life. Their life at that time was miserable and awful due to the rules they faced everyday. As the result of segregation in the 1930 black people were treated badly especially in their facilities jobs opportunity and their right to