What Is The Role Of Racial Segregation In The United States?

There was a time when blacks and whites were not equal in the U.S. Blacks had to ride in the back of the public buses while whites were allowed to sit in the front. The Emancipation Proclamation that was written by Abraham Lincoln promised that all slaves would be freed and have equal rights as whites. The whites continued to be racist towards the blacks 100 years later. In 1863 a Baptist Minister said that America did not live according to the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal. The freedom that was promised by Abraham Lincoln was lost because people thought that whites and blacks are separate but equal. Blacks were now free but they were treated worse than second class citizens. By 1900, 90% of African Americans lived in the South scattered around the countryside. By 1965 African Americans migrated alongside the new highway and now 80% of African Americans lived in cities,

Desegregation happened in 1948 but it took over a decade for it to take effect. In 1954 it was reported around the war that America had outlawed segregation. In 1955 the U.S. Supreme Court decided that segregation in education should be ended. A decade later over 75% of the schools remained segregated and one half of the black population was living below the line of poverty. Even after the blacks were freed they still were not granted their rights. An example of this is when Margaret Douglass was arrested for teaching “free colored children” to read and write. Another example is when a five-year-old girl named Sara Roberts had to walk by a lot of schools that were for white kids only. Her father was upset and filed a lawsuit against the city of Boston so that his daughter wouldn’t have to walk so far just to get an education. They lost the case because the judges thought that if blacks and whites were allowed to the same places that it would just encourage racism and