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Hour 6, English 2

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How did segregation in 1950-1960 affect communities back then?

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How did segregation in 1950-1960 affect communities back then?

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Segregation has been a problem for many years. They had barely any rights, they were treated poorly, and they weren’t aloud to be in the same building as white people. Around the 1950-1960s things started to change. They started to have more rights. While they had more rights, they were still treated differently than the rest.

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https://www.abhmuseum.org/voting-rights-for-blacks-and-poor-whites-in-the-jim-crow-south/

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Even though black people had the right to vote, states made it hard for them to (History.com page 7)

Segregated seating was considered unconstitutional because of Rosa Parks (History.com page 5)

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was for discrimination and segregation in education, voting, and use of public facilities (Britannica page 1)

The Cicil Rights Act of 1968 protected black people who wanted to vote and have a house, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 also protected any violence that was racially motivated (Leffler page 1)

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Experiencing Racism in Segregated Mississippi in the 1960s | Iowans Return to Freedom Summer

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Segregation affected everyone’s daily life by being in a building to walking outside. White people didn’t like the black people so when a white person wanted to help the black people it was surprising to everyone.

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Experiencing Racism in Segregated Mississippi in the 1960s | Iowans Return to Freedom Summer

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Even though black people had more rights in buildings, they were still being denied services (History.com page 7).

Nine black teenagers fought for equal rights in lunch rooms (Herr page 51)

“At the lunch counter, however, the waitress had orders from management not to serve African Americans” (Herr page 52). Herr explains how it’s not just the waitress herself that doesn’t want to serve the African Americans but it’s management telling her and all the employees that they aren’t allowed to

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https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/timeline-the-american-civil-rights-movement-of-the-1950s-and-1960s/

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Segregation in the US was legalized, while other countries practiced it (Britannica page 1).

Black and white schools were the opposite of each other until Brown vs. Board of Education (Herr page 34)

Southern black people initiated the civil rights movement in 1950-1960 (Britannica page 1)

Many people in America in the 19th-20th century believed that segregation was a good thing because white and black people cannot coexist (History.com page 1)

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This chart shows how many more white people there were than black people back when segregation was a problem

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https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/9599/chapter/4

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To wrap it all up, segregation back then had its up and downs but most importantly it led to equal rights for everyone, even after their equal rights weren’t really equal at first.