Separate But Equal

The video, Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings, gives an influential look into the beginning of the civil rights movement. It shared many different events that helped bring about the movement and eventually caused that Black society would have the same or similar rights as the White’s. The main events that took placed happened in the southern states, particularly in Alabama. In the US blacks were segregated and were not allowed the same rights or privileges as the white race. They also were of the poorer class and that made it harder for them to have a voice in specific matters. However, it was very strict in the south and almost everything has either a black or white section. As time passed blacks began to show small acts of courage of standing up for themselves and demanding equality.

In the week's reading it offered a unique perspective education of segregated school by the percentage of black and hispanic students. The arguments that can be mafe about the myth of educations and empowerment in the reading "Still Separate, Still Unequal" by Jonathan Kozol, is still being affected by funds. The author speaks about statistics present the overpopulated schools are filled with minorities. "Whether the issue is inequity alone or deepening resegregation or the labyrinthine intertwining of the two, it is well past the time for us to start the work that it will take to change this." "We do not have the things you have," Alliyah told me when she wrote to ask if I would come and visit her school in the South Bronx. "Can you help us?"

The character of a nation can be discovered or disclosed in the way that it treats its indigenous population, I have chosen Japan and Australia for my comparison and will be giving a brief summary about the Japanese Ainu People and the Australian Aborigines, their histories as we know them and how they have been treated by the peoples that have taken over the lands to which they themselves had laid claim as their own thousands of years beforehand.

Many African Americans would have separate schools, bus seats, and even fountain drinks for the “colored”. If an African American would ever break these “laws”, they were either jailed, beaten, or killed for it. In response, many Africans saw the negative effects of violence and instead of choosing to fight back violently, they chose to protest through “nonviolence [,] as it grows from Judaic-Christian traditions [and] seeks a social order of justice permeated by love” (Doc. A). Many African Americans believed that through nonviolence it would help benefit the fight for equality because it would help them gain sympathy and support from the people through the sight violence being used on peaceful people. However, many African American’s were getting frustrated at how long it was taking to gain equality, protection of civil rights, and justice in courts so many thought that the time had “come for black people to arm themselves against [violence] before it [was] too late” (Doc. F) Many African Americans then started to turn to violence to try to push the fight for equality, but this was ultimately a disastrous decision because this caused the Civil Rights Movement to lose a lot of support they had from the

From the 1950’s to the early 1960’s of the United State, colored people were treated unfairly by segregation, which was a separation between colored people and white people. The Southern United States was the most racist and violent part of U.S. because of the Jim Crow Laws enforcing the racial segregation over all the public places to separate African-Americans and white people. However, the segregation finally came to an end due to the civil rights movement in 1964, and one of the main nonviolent protests of the civil rights movement were the Sit-In and Freedom Riders. Sit-In and the Freedom Riders demonstrated the rights of the African-Americans and accelerated the civil rights movement.

In 1875, congress passed the civil rights act which meant that public stores, hotels, restaurants, and places of amusement like parks and recreational facilities to refuse admission to people of a certain religion, race, or color. People of the certain race or color had their own facilities like water fountains and benches. People also had separate neighborhoods which I think is stupid to build a separate place just for a different race or color. It could have saved a bunch of money if the government just let the people have the same rights as other people and just let it go. A well known law and court argument of the name “Morgan VS.Virginia” which was a law that was passed and said for people of a certain race or color had specific seats and rights on motor carries like buses and trains. Plessy VS. Ferguson was a law in Louisiana that gave “separate but equal” rights to whites and blacks on trains and carriers. Rosa Parks is one

The United States has made great innovations in the past century to ensure that all people have the same chances to better themselves. While steps have been taken to bring about equality from Roe v. Wade to legalizing same sex-marriage in every state still more can be done—especially in the field of racial inequality.

Martin Luther King Jr. demonstrated this. He wanted black people to be treated the same way white people were treated. So he fought for black people's rights but still treated white people as he did black people.

During the 60s, discrimination was very strong and took place during this time, when it came to the Jim Crow laws, blacks were excluded from what whites had the ability to do. In the South, and around it these laws were strongly enforced, African - Americans felt as if they would be safer by heading North. In 1810 whites thought that blacks were here in this world to be put to work. They thought blacks did not deserve any respect. (Jim Crow Laws n. pag.) For about 80 years, most of the United States, pushed towards Jim Crow laws . “From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members of another race.” (Jim Crow… n. pag.) The laws kept both blacks and whites from sharing anything with each other. It caused a lot of hatred towards one another but all they wanted was to be treated the same. Although there were many laws, many of them had many reasons to them. Whites did not use the blacks names in a respectful manner, they called them by their first name. The blacks had to call them by their name with Mr., Mrs., Miss, sir, or mam. (Pilgram n. pag.) If blacks rode in the same car as a white and the white

They struggled for equality and took part in some of the greatest civil rights movements ever known. Although the civil rights revolution came as a surprise, the causes fought for were necessary. According to Foner, “the United States in the 1950s was still a segregated, unequal society with half of the nation’s black families living in poverty.” (902) Many whites paid little attention to segregation because they felt it had no impact on their everyday lives. Segregation impacted blacks, especially in the South, on a daily basis. They had separate restrooms, drinking fountains, schools, entrances to public places, and were unable to enter many public institutions altogether. (902) The arrest of Rosa Parks sparked a year-long bus boycott and marked the beginning of the civil rights movement in the South. (904) With Martin Luther King Jr. leading the movement, the freedom of justice and equality finally seemed within reach. According to the text, “King was a master of appealing to the deep sense of injustice among blacks and to the conscience of white America. He presented the case for black rights in a vocabulary that emerged the black experience with that of the nation.” (906)

makes you more important. It wasn’t until Rosa Park tried to change it. What she did was she sat in one of the seats reserved for white person. This was working for her for until all the bus got filled to the brim and she was forced to move, but instead of moving she just simply ignored him. When he finally gave up black people started doing all the time starting a mini revolution. A black man would even sometime be beaten just because of his skin tone. It was at this point were they didn’t have the right to vote so they would start riots. The riots were crazy. Some of them would go on for days and would be very violent. It wasn’t until Martin Luther gave his I Have Dream Speech that the black race calmed down a tiny bit. Also the I Have A Speech got the new Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson attention along side with all the violence. He then decided to implement the civil rights movement.

The history of United State has shown many racial discriminations since colonists arrived America. African Americans have suffered unequal treatments and punishments in comparison to white people and European immigrants. Even when slavery was abolished in 1865, African Americans were still victims of many inequalities like employment, rights, housing, and transportation. However, due to these inequalities and mistreatments like the Jim Crow Laws, many African Americans started to make a change during the 1950’s, also called the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks, that was arrested for sitting in the front of a bus in Alabama. Rosa Parks case made the supreme court to ban segregation in public transportation. The social difference during the 1950’s was very notable and obvious, and voting was a big example of the huge discrimination suffered by African Americans and minorities. In the south, white people would take away minorities’ right to vote by making them take a test that would decide if they were or not capable to make a political decision. Fortunately, big characters like Martin Luther King vouched for the end of this inequalities. Martin Luther King played a big role in the 1960’s making everyone aware about the change that was about to come.

If the Supreme Court created the law “separate is equal” my life would change in multiple ways. First of all, because I am technically considered a minority even though I was born here, I wouldn’t be able to interact with white people at all. For example, I may not be able to go on the same plane as a white person, or be able to sit in the same section of the cinemas with a white person. It would become awkward or looked down upon to become a friend with a white person because people would find it odd. The facilities as well would be different, in a sense that they may have better conditions for the white people than for the minorities. For example, things like restaurants and even public restrooms may be cleaner or, in general, have better

During the start of the African American civil rights movement, Africans Americans still were faced with Jim Crow laws which segregated them from whites. Under the Jim Crow laws African Americans had different schools, bathrooms, trains, buses and many other things that were separated from the white population. The case, Plessy v. Ferguson went through the U.S. Supreme Court and turned out to make a legal policy “separate but

“Plessy was one-eighth black by heritage, but in the state of Louisiana he was legally considered black... the train company knew Plessy was coming and had him arrested almost as soon as he stepped onto the car” (source C). This exemplifies that, even though people were American citizens, if they were the slightest percent black they were still subject to the harsh growing laws of Jim Crow. In addition, even though Plessy was one-eighth African American he still didn’t have the right to sit in the same train car as the other white people. Another additional example of segregation was Rosa Parks. “She stepped onto the bus...and sat in the fifth row—the first row of the colored section” then James Black ordered Parks to move to the back of the bus,(source A). This proves that even when the African Americans sat in the section designated to them, they were still subject to moving to fit white people. This also shows the attitude that black people were not valued to the extent that white people were. Thus, segregation restricted the rights of African Americans and was overall