Prejudice And Racism In The 1930's

Geographically, over two-thirds of African Americans lived in the south during the 1950’s, a place where they were once slaves to the white men. As slaves they were treated horribly and many of the white citizens did not care at all for their slaves and only cared if they were healthy enough to farm their crops all day and make them a profit. This racial prejudice was very evident by the treatment of African Americans after slavery and long after. Even after the Supreme Court reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson case, whites still treated African Americans very poorly and ignored desegregation. Economically, African Americans also had a much harder time getting jobs and when they did, they were usually paid much less than their white counterpart.

When the Great Depression hit, no other minority group had it worse than the African Americans. Unemployment for African Americans was fifty percent or more, and even ninety percent in certain cities, while white unemployment ranged around thirty percent (Sustar). Aid was scarce from the Roosevelt Administration, where his NRA, National Recovery Act, was referred by blacks as the Negro Removal Act (Anderson). The NRA claimed that its goal was nondiscriminatory hiring and equal wages for blacks and whites, but they rarely employed blacks and when they did maintained racist wages (Sustar). It became more of a tool to keep African Americans from competing with white workers. Blacks were usually excluded from unions so they had to organize their own such as the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (Sustar). But, those who tried to organize unions became targets for lynch mobs. Only the Communist Party actually took black workers seriously and helped organize a union for them (Sustar). Still, many blacks were forced to migrate out of the South and to the northern cities for a better opportunity, where the conditions were a little better. Patterns of segregation and racism in the South during the Depression remained relatively unchanged. Take for example the famous Scottsboro case. Nine black teenages that were on a train in Alabama were accused by two white women of rape, a crime that was unthinkable in 1930s Alabama. However, there was no evidence whatsoever that the women were raped. But nevertheless, the all-white jury in Alabama convicted all of the nine boys where eight of them were sentenced to death (Blunder). Clearly, being an African American in the early twentieth century was not ideal in a country where racist views were relatively normal. It didn’t matter if they were a decorated Olympian like Jesse Owens, or

The African Americans before World War Two were not treated equal. Before the depression they more and more African Americans began to seek jobs but this lead to many problems. There were rallies against companies hiring African Americans and very prominent wage gaps. “It was exactly what the white defenders called it: a “way of life” that included elements of culture, expectations of behavior, and a political economy that mocked the ideals of a democratic republic wherever Jim Crow ruled” (Moye 15). Even though there were laws in place for less racial segregation, most people still did not like African Americans. Many still worked on farms as sharecroppers or on tenant farms. This also led them to get hit hard and be very affected by the depression.

They suffered from an unemployment rate 2 to 3 times of white people. By 1932, about half of African Americans were out of work,or they were experiencing difficulties finding jobs anywhere. In some northern cities, Whites called for African

After the World War II ended, America's economy boomed as the nation recovered from the war and the Great Depression. There was a rise of new communities mainly in the suburbs and the west and south. However, with this breakthrough in America's economy, the majority of the White community continued to deny the African Americans their basic human rights. African Americans’ social and economic gains were limited by racial prejudice. They were relegated to menial jobs by the men of the Navy and this did not change till America was far gone in the war.

Skilled jobs were practically impossible for most African-Americans to attain, leaving them low-paying and often dangerous jobs. From explicit examples to the subtler, the economic boom most of the country experienced after WWII did not apply for the majority of African-Americans looking for a job in Detroit. In one of the more explicit examples of clear racial segregation in terms of jobs was in the retail sector. African-Americans had a rough time attempting to get any sort of job within retail because of the “bad perception” store owners believed they gave off.

African Americans suffered a wage gap. getting paid less for doing the same job as a white man. They were considered as second class citizens, always looked down upon simply because of their skin color, often resulting in doing the dirty jobs. When the effects of the Great Depression ravaged the country, the unemployment rate for African Americans was higher than 50%. The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, connects to the many problems that occurred in the 1930’s.

At the time that Martin Luther King Jr. was alive and before the Civil Rights movement, great economic inequality for minorities was a given. Unemployment was three to four times more likely for an African-American in the US during the 1960s than white Americans (Austin). An African-American man in the exact same job would make an average of forty percent less than what a white man would earn (Marifian & Canon). Moreover, the likelihood of an African-American worker employee with the same level of education and qualifications moving into the same job as a white person was exceedingly slim.

In the year of 1959 numerous things happened, as well as several things being released. It could surprise younger people of our generation; the way things worked, what happened, and even how many things were priced. Though the US abolished slavery in 1865, (and in 1870 African American men were given the right to vote though it was not until almost a century later that this was fully recognized across the US.) the US was still a fairly racist place, an example is that it white and black people lived in their own little area(A white street, and vica versa). This was not enforced by any law obviously so a black family could very well live in ‘white’ neighborhood. It would just earn lot attention, and controversy from other people.

The dilemma facing African Americans during the first few decades after emancipation was profound. The post Civil War-Reconstruction era in the South was one where African Americans had political voting rights, members of Congress, and a vision for the future that would extend the principles of democratic government to all black people. Quickly though, it changed to a situation that was akin to slavery itself. With the removal of the Federal forces in the South following Reconstruction, the gains that were made eroded both political power and the civil rights of African Americans. Economically, millions of poor southern blacks were trapped in the sharecropping system structured to ensure that they provided cheap agriculture labor for the benefit of white landlords. Throughout the South, with the institution of the Jim Crow laws, blacks began to be excluded from all public accommodations, denied access to schools and other essential services, and restricted from living in certain residential areas. Essential to the racist assault against black people’s rights was lynching, fear and death.

In the 1930s, racism was one of society’s most pressing issues both in and out of the novel.

1941, Japan hit the U.S. naval base in the pacific ocean with bombs, crippling the U.S. 20,000 U.S. citizens with Japanese ancestors were locked up for over 3 years. Children, parents, grandparents were put into internment camps, later relocated to Santa Anita Racetrack (Lewis 7). There were many causes that created this “grave injustice,” but along the way there were also opportunities to avert the abuse of rights.

It’s common knowledge that people who have higher education are more likely to succeed, having better paying jobs. African Americans have one of lowest higher education graduation rate in the country, the NCES reported in 2009-2010 that the number of African American graduates was 164,844 compared to their Caucasian counterparts with 1,167,499. African Americans made up 10% of all graduates in 2010 (NCES 2012). Although the statistics show a huge gap between African Americans and Caucasian, African Americans are progressing and increasing

Introduction The purpose of this research is to identify the use of force and how body cameras affect that, so basically, is there any correlation between the two. Use of force in law enforcement has been around for quite some time, it never really gained national attention until the beating of Rodney King in 1991. From that point on the use of force in law enforcement has been scrutinized to the max. There have been many cases that saved officers careers but also showed them to be in the wrong.

Throughout America’s past, racial inequality has been a reoccurring theme in our society. Ever since the Europeans invaded America the white man has been superior compared to all ethnicities. No more than two hundred years ago, African Americans were slaves and only counted as three fifths of a person. Within the past hundred years African Americans have managed to obtain more equality in some situations, but in other cases racial inequality has become worse than it was when segregation took place. The gaps between the quality of education of white and black students receive appears to be growing instead of shrinking. The lack of quality education blacks receive has contributed to significant health differences between