Segregation and Discrimination

Owning a home is something many people yearn for. According to the racial wealth gap by Janelle Jones “Overall housing equity makes up about two-thirds of all wealth for a typical household”. Many blacks would like to own a home but either are discriminated against in the housing market or cannot afford it. According to the Chicago Tribune, in 2016 only 42.2 percent of blacks owned a home while 71.9 percent of whites owned a home. Less than half of black people own a home. This then leads to education, African Americans not being able to own a home and live in metropolitan areas leads to a low education rate. According to the HuffPost “Children that grow up in poor neighborhoods have a significantly reduced chance of graduating high school. This is a significant quote, I have seen from personal experience coming from a public school, in a metropolitan area that many minorities drop out. This is still an ongoing problem today in Milwaukee. A significant part of blacks going to public schools, with low education rates is because of racial segregation.

B.2.a. Within this video, the teacher took her students on a field trip to observe citizens and gauge how the rights showed individualism in America. It made them aware of stereotyping. This supports students learning about cultural diversity by showing how others were treated in history. In student reflection forms, students wrote about how color should not matter when interacting with others. People can be a good person even if they aren’t religious or believe the same way as themselves. The teacher taught the students that everyone is different and that we need to look for and identify the good qualities of others. This was an effective way to teach the students because they became more aware of the way they acted toward others.

Equality was once a repulsive concept within America, today it seems to be a foregone conclusion. Indeed, we have made so many strides in the way that we view race that it seems a gross misstep every time that it needs to be addressed. Even our President, an African American who overcame tremendous odds to rise to the highest office does not have the answers to our issues with race, rather he calls on us all to “ask some tough questions about how we can permit so many of our children to languish in poverty, or attend dilapidated schools, or grow up without prospects for a job or for a career.” For most, these questions point to sources outside of themselves, but perhaps there a bit of introspection is the answer. Systematic segregation can

Explore the various types of laws and read some of each kind from the different states.

I decided that while this was something common and had backing maybe I should do more digging before bringing it up with anyone else. So, I decided to try a different approach, I copied all the patient files, then ran them through a program that sorted them by race. Now I didn’t think this would go anywhere as the country is now much more integrated than it was during the time period any of the articles or books I found were written in. Imagine my surprise when I find that the repeat visits from minority races all have issues such as insecurity in their job and social life, many of them seem to have a dislike for how they look or act at times and they let this control them but then they dislike themselves even more and some of them have inferiority

Forty-seven years ago the Civil Rights Act was passed to end racial discrimination in America, later on the twenty-fourth Amendment to poll taxes, then the Voting Rights Act, busing was set up to integrate schools, and the quota system was developed. Black Power, the Nation of Islam, and the Southern Christian Leadership conference were also some of the groups that tried to end segregation and promote the African-American race. Although these groups and laws did help end it, it still exists in today’s world and many studies have been done to prove it in the past couple of years.

During the early 1960s, Birmingham, Alabama was considered to be one of the most racially divided cities in the United States despite the city's population of approximately 350,000 people and 60 percent being white and 40 percent being African Americans. Birmingham, Alabama’s law enforcement, firefighters, salesperson in department stores, school bus drivers, bank tellers, and cashiers had no employed African Americans. African Americans who were secretaries were not allowed to work for white professionals. Many jobs available for African Americans consisted of manual labor in factories, provided maid and yard services, or working in other African American neighborhoods. Jobs that had to lay off employees for whatever reasons would often lay

Body 1: During the Civil rights era the oppression of African American citizens was a very common thing. So, much so that seeing coloured citizens being abused, treated badly or being in a segregated area was just a normal part of everyday life. Most of this segregation came from the “Jim Crow” laws. These laws were ironically named after a group called the “Virginia Minstrels” which was a group of white men who smeared black cork on their face and played songs and danced. These laws effectively created two separate societies the African Americans and the Caucasians. This meant that blacks and whites could not ride together in the same rail car, sit in the same waiting room, sit in the same theatre, attend the same school or eat in the same

Racial segregation has been embedded in southern society ever since the birth of the America. However, even though documents such as Brown vs. Board of Education and the fourteenth amendment has been instituted into the constitution, we are still facing racial segregation throughout America that is unconstitutional and unjust. The south of America, especially Alabama, are facing several claims of racial tension in their prison system and their way to solve the tension between the black and white population is through segregation. The prison system has faced a lot of backlash, as 65% of their inmates consist of African Americans and 35% of them consist of white Americans. From time to time there has been violent encounters between white and black Americans, which have led to many unfortunate deaths. In order to simmer down the tension, the prison system thought it would be necessary to isolate inmates by race. The decision of segregation in Alabama’s prison system takes us back into history, when African Americans’ faced separate but equal law (Plessey vs. Ferguson) that separated whites from blacks in public facilities. This action is total nonsense and Alabama’s governing systems needs to find methods in which can diversify black and white American’s together to unify with each other through actives and interactions.

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When the civil war ended, there were two plans as to how to readmit the rebellious southern states back into the union. President Lincoln’s ten percent plan was by far the more lenient of the two, while the plan that congress wanted was much more oppressive. Both the north and the south had been ravaged by the war, and tension still ran high between them.

Segregation in the United States, is defined as legal or public social practice of separating people by law based on differences of race, wealth, culture, or religion. Racial segregation in started as early as the 1800's as slavery. Slaves weren’t allowed to have an education like their owners’ children. Their purpose was to do the work that their owners wanted them to do. People separate the schools between black and white and the separate school system were not equal. There is a strong racial inequality in school systems, which negatively affect the quality of education for black people. For this reason, blacks and whites had to attend different schools. White schools gave white children a good quality education but black children were not

“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.”-George Wallace. This shows one of the strong view points in our country, when segregation was occurring in the early 1900’s when the Jim crow laws were taking place. In this time period, blacks were going to different schools, drinking out of separate drinking fountains, and overall living in their own small little communities. Now, in the 2000’s everyone is in unity and living together in peace. This is only one of the issue out of our whole society and country that has been discussed. Through different time periods in our country, Americans see American identity differently.

I performed my field experience at Chiefland Elementary. Chiefland is a very small town with the population of six thousand. There are over eight hundred students enrolled at Chiefland Elementary. There are fifty-two instructional staff members and two administers. In those fifty-two staff members, there is one African American teacher and one male teacher; the rest are women. This is a white dominate school. In the school there is 73% Caucasian students, 17% African American students, and 4% Hispanic students. There is only 3% of students that are ESOL and 5% are Gifted and Talented. This semester we learned that in small areas and with low income schools, there are more Hispanics and African American people. In this case, Chiefland Elementary

Just laws are laws that don't belittle anyone, however unjust laws do, they degrade human personality, and that is a major distinction between laws that are fair and unfair. Segregation is an example of an unjust law because it is a major contributor to the inferiority felt among people of African descent. As stated in the text," All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the human personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority (King 12). Segregation is a prime example of how unjust and just laws differ in the sense that unjust laws damage the human personality and just laws do not. The segregation statues only served as a reminder