Segregation In The US By: Jama Ahmed and Issa Hirsi

Meaning “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 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. 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 The United States Constitution adopted the 13 th 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 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 Louisiana required separate entrances for blacks and whites 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 By 1968 all forms of segregation had been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and by 1970.

"The white way of Life" 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 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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