Segregation was very hard to endure to those who were colored in the 1960’s. Segregation was basically a white person making cruel remarks to a colored person or about the colored people in general. Segregation wasn’t just making racist remarks but it made people fight about little events that weren’t worth fighting about. White people would even take the colored to court just for having a nice car or even not addressing a white person as “sir” or “madam”. In the court cases no matter how simple the cases was the colored would either go to jail or even worse have the death penalty. The colored wasn’t treated equally at all they always had everything separate like water fountains, stores, restaurants, and even schools. Although some whites didn’t believe in segregation because they knew it wasn’t right and they knew the true meaning of the everyday term of “everyone should be treated the same”. On the other hand colored people also fought back at the whites but in the most non violent ways to do it. One way was they would have scheduled marches around town with signs saying “stop segregation” or “segregation is a crime”. In these marches many colored people would show how they feel about what and how the whites were treating them at the time but in the most nonviolent way possible. In these marches some whites would also participate to also show their feelings about segregation and how wrong it was. Whites that participated in the marches were very courageous to even dare to participate in one of the marches. During the marches anything could’ve happened. In many marches people were ambushed killed and even threatened by the sidelines. Many more things had happened over the period of segregation like strikes, picketing, and sit i... ... middle of paper ... ... have to fight back no matter what the situation may be. Fighting back doesn’t always mean to actually fight; it means a lot of things like fighting with words or doing something to irritate someone or a group of people. The last resort of fighting is actually fighting. Sit ins gave the moral of violence is not the answer to all of your problems. The blacks believed in their selves while they started the sit ins and they worked hard for what they wanted and they sort of did. The thing is if you work hard for what you want then you will get it and you will feel good about it. The blacks never gave up while they wanted their rights and they actually got them after a short period of time. The four men who started sit ins were recognized as the most courageous of sit ins they started a small conflict and turned into a big one that spread all across the united states.
“A negro baby had only half the chance of completing high school and only a third of the chance to complete college as a white baby that was born at the same time and place” (Hubert). Kids were treated differently by color in schools in the 1960’s; Brown vs. Education and Little Rock Nine are two examples. There are many more examples of how kids were treated in the 1960’s but these are the most known and they show how people were treated. In the North most public schools were not segregated and in the South they were very segregated, very racist, and had segregated public schools. People were rioting and fighting for the freedom that America had promised them. Black parents wanted their kids to go to the white schools and get a great education. They fought for the equality for their kids. The black population did not want segregated schools. But most of the white population fought to keep schools separated. The parents didn’t want their kids to have to go to school with black kids.
They were willing to break unjust laws to achieve a just law. In John Lewis’ March book One, we see examples of Lewis’s days when he, himself, took part in sit-ins at dinners to be served meals. At the counters of diners, they were rejected by waitress to be served meals. In the book, we witness the brutality and beatings young protesters at counters received as well as in the movie “The Butler”. Both scenes show the consequences protesters faced once in white people’s territory. The goal of the sit-ins was to fight for equality in dining areas and restaurants. With all the violence faced during sit-ins in both book one and two, the protesters continuous pressure to integrate diners and restaurants proved to be effective because a bill was later signed to desegregate diners because of race. In today’s generation, a sit-in would not be effective because this generation’s youth does not have the will and mentality to withstand abuse from whites without fighting back. Violence answers to violence as we have seen recent violence demonstrated by young black protesters in other
During the first half of the twentieth century segregation was the way of life in the south. It was an excepted, and even though it was morally wrong, it still went on as if there was nothing wrong at all. African-Americans were treated as if they were a somehow sub-human, they were treated because of the color of their skin that somehow, someway they were different.
During the civil rights struggle in the late1950s it became apparent that those who supported segregation would go to any length in order to maintain the status quo. Until then, many whites in the 1940s believe blacks were content with the way things were (Shmoop). For the first time, the nation would come face to face to the reality of the violence that African Americans faced on a daily basis. The Brown v. Board of Education decision was a major victory for the civil rights movement. It showed momentum for desegregation in the Jim Crow south. After school integration, it was only a matter of time before Jim Crow laws would be challenged and overturned everywhere.
In 1865, congress passed the thirteenth amendment, which was ratified on December 6, 1865. The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery in the United States permanently. It was thought by many African Americans that there would finally be peace, and that they too would be treated as fairly as the whites. This was sadly not the case. African Americans were brutally segregated and entrusted to hard times and conditions. Whites began to insist on racial segregation, which had been practiced before, and gave the feeling of superiority to the whites over African Americans. Many whites resisted the social changes, leading to revolting movements such as the Ku Klux Klan, whose members attacked African americans to maintain white dominance. This sparked the civil rights movement. Also called “freedom struggles”, these movements took place to obtain equal rights for African Americans. The sit in’s had a major impact on the psychological impact on African Americans. Not only was it the first African American sitting in, but other students started to follow the path of the Greensboro four and started to participate in sit ins as well. The sit in’s allowed for the civil rights for African Americans to be finally broadcasted live throughout the world. Even though the protesters heckled and beaten, they still sat and never moved, showing the resiliency of the protesters, and was a great role model for other African American protesters who decided it was time to fight against discrimination and fight for rights.
Peaceful protests was one of the ways African Americans tried to make a change. Many sit-ins occurred where whites and blacks would sit together integrated at white bars and refuse to move. By refusing to move many people through things such as ketchup, mustard, fries, milkshakes, vinegar, and everything on the counter. Mobs of people would harass them and even hurt them to try and get them to move. (Document 4) White cops would arrest those people sitting at the counter eventually, but they wouldn’t protect them from white violence. Police officers also used fire hoses and dogs on peaceful protesters showing that they would not protect African Americans. (Document 5) African Americans also started to integrate into schools. John Meredith
during the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War ended Jim Crow laws were established that stated that African Americans must be treated separate but equal. this created segregation in schools public places and public transportation. The segregated sides for the African Americans We're always worse than the sides for the white people. The schools for the African Americans were in bad condition. the school supplies were in bad condition. public places for African Americans we're in bad condition and white people always had first say in transportation.Rosa Parks and other African Americans wanted segregation to end even though they didn't necessarily like the way they were being treated by the white people. they especially wanted segregation to end in schools so that their children did not have to grow up being separate from white children. they hoped that by the time their children grew up segregation would be over and African Americans and white people would get along. Rosa Parks stood up against segregation by not moving to the back of the bus when the white person told her to. her protests led to the end of segregation in the buses in Alabama and eventually to the end of segregation in the
The 1960’s were a time of freedom, deliverance, developing and molding for African-American people all over the United States. The Civil Rights Movement consisted of black people in the south fighting for equal rights. Although, years earlier by law Africans were considered free from slavery but that wasn’t enough they wanted to be treated equal as well. Many black people were fed up with the segregation laws such as giving up their seats on a public bus to a white woman, man, or child. They didn’t want separate bathrooms and water fountains and they wanted to be able to eat in a restaurant and sit wherever they wanted to and be served just like any other person.
According to the march organizers, the march would symbolize their demands of “the passage of the Kennedy Administration Civil Rights Legislation without compromise of filibuster,” integration of all public schools by the end of the year, a federal program to help the unemployed, and a Federal Fair Employment Act which would ban job discrimination (“The March on Washington” 11). In order for the march not to appear as a war of white versus black it had to be racially integrated so it looked like justice versus injustice. Some organizers wanted to call for massive acts of disobedience across America, but when the Urban League and the N.A.A.C.P. joined the organization of the march, they insisted against it. The march was originally going to be on Capitol Hill to influence congress, but because of a 1882 law against demonstrating there, they decided to march to the Lincoln Memorial and invite congress to meet them there, knowing that they would not.
Blacks have struggled to gain acceptance since they first were encountered with the injustice and inequality that dwelled in our country. However, whites had so repeatedly cut them down that most blacks were so far beaten into submission that hope for a better life seemed gone. The South could not stand having the government come and interfere in their affairs, and were willing to protest the government's decisions by not protecting activists. Then with the Montgomery bus boycott, all blacks finally had a cause to rally in support for. Rosa Parks sparked the beginning of the Civil Rights movement, and there were a mass population of blacks to join in. To go along with the determined blacks there were many whites from all levels that were willing to fight for equality. But blacks would not be deterred by these acts of hate; they weren't going to sit back and take it anymore. Racism affected nearly every aspect of life in America, and activists worked very hard in the face of violent resistance to combat some of the largest issues. To begin, sit-ins inspired by the Greensboro Four "achieved impressive results.
Have you ever heard about segregation? What affects it had in our Civil Rights Movement? Segregation had it’s biggest impact in the separation of the American people by color and race. Many children had to go to different school because of their color, this was the beginning of the Jim Crow Laws which led to Plessy V. Ferguson and ending with Brown V. Board of education. Although the decision did not succeed in fully desegregating public education in the United States, it put the Constitution on the side of racial equality and galvanized the nascent civil rights movement into a full revolution.
At the time of the African-American Civil Rights movement, segregation was abundant in all aspects of life. Separation, it seemed, was the new motto for all of America. But change was coming. In order to create a nation of true equality, segregation had to be eradicated throughout all of America. Although most people tend to think that it was only well-known, and popular figureheads such as Martin Luther King Junior or Rosa Parks, who were the sole launchers of the African-American Civil Rights movement, it is the rights and responsibilities involved in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision which have most greatly impacted the world we live in today, based upon how desegregation and busing plans have affected our public school systems and way of life, as well as the lives of countless African-Americans around America. The Brown v. Board of Education decision offered African-Americans a path away from common stereotypes and racism, by empowering many of the people of the United States to take action against conformity and discrimination throughout the movement.
The Segregation Era in the United States is a time that many African Americans living in the United States wish to forget. “Racial Segregation is the separation of different kinds of human racial groups in daily life,” (Wikipedia). The Segregation period, in terms of public life, lasted from roughly 1896-1954. This period was from the Supreme Court case Plessey v. Ferguson to the case of Brown v. Board. What could bring about such a horrible policy like segregation? The answer is fear. “The main cause of segregation was fear of people who are different from us,” (Wikianswers). Those we fear we tend to hate. Racism and prejudice existed mostly in the South during the Segregation Era and they still exist in our country today. Whites treated African Americans as if they were lesser beings. This racism and prejudice pervaded almost the entire country. While racism wasn’t nearly as bad in the North, it still existed in many places.
Today, the United States is still a racially segregated society. Getting into college is the first step in a student’s postsecondary educational journey, an academically strong start in college is the second because grades can either expand or limit opportunities for successfully completing a college degree . College students face many obstacles throughout their pursuit of higher education. Racial Segregation can affect college academic performance in a variety of ways. Segregation represents a major structural feature influencing success in college. Segregation experienced in childhood can influence later academic performance through a rage of channels. Segregation has other, more contemporaneous influences on academic performance. Massey
Sit-in- A sit-in, in reference to The American Civil Rights Movement, is an event in which African-Americans would go to whites only restaurants and would not leave until they were served. This was a way African-Americans would show their discontent with segregation in society. By doing this, they were saying they wanted to be able to eat in the same restaurants as Caucasians. Sit-ins were not just about eating in the same restaurants, African-Americans wanted to be permitted to use all the same businesses as Caucasians. Often times, African-Americans who were conducting a sit-in were harassed. Sit-ins were another way African-Americans would express discontent with segregation. Sit-ins were a way African-Americans would make the point they wanted immigration, just like “the Nine” did by going to Central High School. Melba and the rest of “the Nine” were, in a way, performing a sit-in by going to Central. They went to Central and did not want to leave until they were taught and had graduated (most of “the Nine” did have to leave for their own safety, even though they did not necessarily want to). This can be compared to African-Americans entering a restaurant and not leaving until they received service. In both cases, integrationists went into a public facility and didn’t leave until serviced (food or education) or forced to leave.