Racial segregation

During the years of 1880 to the ends of 1920, a majority of laws had been created for many people due to the segregation and discrimination that was taking place. These laws mainly affected the African-Americans who were wanting to travel around to other places since they were being segregated. In these laws they include the Jim Crow Laws, The Separate but Equal Laws, The Plessy v. Ferguson, Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, and the Grandfather Clauses. Racism was one of the biggest problems that we…

Racism, the reoccurring struggle for equality Most of the African Americans are still facing racism. In 2008, an Oregon archives exhibit stated that “African Americans, both nationally and in Oregon faced continuing discrimination and segregation during World War II.” During this time discrimination in employment continued for African American. Prior to the war, many blacks found jobs as hotel and train waiters and porters along with a handful of other unskilled positions. Thus, blacks…

The Civil Rights Museum as a whole was a very interesting/learning experience. Since this was my first time visiting the museum, I really did not know what to expect. I knew that it was where Dr. King was assassinated, however I was unaware of all the other exhibits leading up to and even after the Civil Rights movement. The staff there were very welcoming and knowledgeable about the events that took place throughout the museum. Also, the exhibits were amazing, I really enjoyed seeing the…

a representation of the dehumanization that blacks experienced during the apartheid in South Africa. Moreover, the term “kaffir” is a racial slur that derived from the Islamic language meaning infidel, or heathen. In other words, it is the equivalent of calling a black person in America a “nigger.” Mathabane avoids the belittling of the apartheid…

classic ghetto. The outcast ghetto is the most commonly referred to and understood in the context of the American society, where most black are populated. Like the author, I will be using the term black instead of African-American to emphasize the racial segregation, marginalization, and discrimination that this group has to endure in America (Marcuse, 1997, p. 239). Not only is the outcast ghetto spatially excluded and/or distant from the mainstream culture of America, but also economically…

right to vote and serve jury duty, people still found reasons to attack blacks. To some people, blacks were too ignorant and unfit to serve to serve on a jury (Document D), and it proves that the reforms during this era had nearly nothing to do with racial relations. By claiming blacks had no right to be on a jury, it proves that no social equality was achieved during Reconstruction because people continuously kicked color people to the bottom of the social hierarchy. People were too stubborn to…

whites to protest racial inequality by using peaceful methods (Lambert,1993,n/p). Luther’s philosophies…

could be classified as more on the expensive side of the housing (Levittown 1958). The town had a racially fueled systematic way of putting people into those homes. According to Galyean, “The rating system eventually contributed to reinforcing segregation real estate agents and landlords steered white buyers to white communities, and African Americans to poorer communities” (Galyean). This was the systematic way of showing you support your country because whites would live in these towns and…

Americans from exercising their new rights. Some of which caused social limitations. After the Civil War, Black Codes restricted the lives of African Americans by making it illegal for them to marry white citizens or travel without permits. Racial segregation laws created more problems at the end of the 19th century. These laws separated white citizens and African Americans and did not provide services of equal quality. Not only did African Americans have social limitations from 1865 to 1900,…

(Nelson Mandela). This quote explains that like poverty, racism is controlled by our people in society. Racial discrimination started in America with the slavery of African-Americans and our outlook on them led to many problems in our history. Racial discrimination is a problem in many other countries like South Africa whose government believes in apartheid. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, racial discrimination plays a big role in the events that happen and how people are treated…