Segregation In The US
By: Jama Ahmed and Issa Hirsi
Meaning
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“Racial segregation is
the separation of
different kinds of
humans racial groups in
daily life. It may apply
to activities such as
eating in a restaurant,
drinking from a water
fountain, using a
washroom, attending
school, going to the
movies, or in the rental
or purchase of a home.”
Schools
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Black and White children were forced to attend different schools.
Although all the schools in a given district were supposed to be equal,
most black schools were not as good as all white schools.
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Segregated school system in the South remained intact a full decade
after the Brown decision
In the North, schools remained segregated until the mid-1970s
After Civil War
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The United States Constitution adopted the 13th
Amendment. Abolishment of Slavery.
The US passed a law called the Black Codes, it take away
the Civil Rights of African Americans.
Examples of Black Codes:
Literacy Tests to vote, Licenses required for work,
marriage, weapons, property ownership, etc.
Hours of work, and labor was terrible.
After Civil War Con't
The March on Washington held August 28 is the largest civil rights demonstration in history
with nearly 250,000 people in attendance.
At the march, King makes his famous I Have a Dream speech.
Facts
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Texas prohibited
integrated boxing
matches.
Georgia bared black
ministers from
performing a marriage
between white couples.
New Orleans created
segregated red light
districts for white and
blacks prostitutes.
1914- Louisiana required
separate entrances for blacks
and whites.
1915- Oklahoma segregated
telephone booths.
After the Thirteenth
Amendment abolished
slavery in America, racial
discrimination became
regulated by the so called Jim
Crow laws, which mandated
strict segregation of the races.
Facts Con't
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By 1968 all forms of
segregation had been
declared
unconstitutional by
the Supreme Court
and by 1970.
"The white way of Life"
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The Montgomery bus boycott
in 1955 lead by Reverend
Martin Luther King was one of
the first movements aganist
segregation, conflicts between
the Civil Rights movement and
those who would fight to
maintain "the white way of life"
would lead to violence and, in
some cases, murder.
Between 1948 and 1965, over
two hundred Black churches and
homes in the Deep South were
the target of bombings
Desegregation
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Desegregation is the process
of ending racial segregation.
“In 1954 the Supreme Court
judgment of Brown v. Board
of Education is given. This is
the launch of Desegregation
in the South. It is also the
beginning of the Civil Rights
Movement.”
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4-Haskins, James. Separate but Not Equal: the Dream and the Struggle. New York: Scholastic,
2001. Print.
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