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What they are doing to prevent it in the future

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What they are doing to prevent it in the future

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Members of the LGBT community are constantly forming groups to influence politicians to make civil rights laws to include the LGBT community, similar to what black people are doing to gain more freedoms/rights. Unfortunately, since the popularity of being openly LGBT is fairly new, they are a few steps behind black people, but since America has seen inequality in black people for a long time, they know that similar issues are happening with LGBT and know what they have to do to satisfy the LGBT community.

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As LGBT rights are developing in the United States, it is unequal for people in the LGBT community; LGBT people of color and women aren't treated equal to even LGBT men. Researchers aren't sure why open LGBT is being discriminated in the workplace, but it is believed because it is so new, that because there isn't any laws agaisnt it, it will continue to happen.

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With the idea of being open about being part of the LGBT community being a fairly new idea, with that comes a lot of older businesses not adjusting well and therefore not accepting LGBT employees. This issue is fairly new because before, LGBT people would often keep it to themselves and not be open about it because it was so frowned upon in society.

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People who are LGBT are being arrested for simply being open about their sexual orientations and fired for being open at their jobs.

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Cesar Chavez when he was young was a farm worker before he joined the Navy, once he came back he started the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA). He helped these immigrants/workers protest peacefully to get the conditions that they wanted. Chavez took inspiration from Gandhi in the sense that all his protests were peaceful and didn't cause any harm to anybody. Chavez was huge in developing rights and equality for Latin american immigrants and workers.

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Latin American immigrants and workers were often exploited by their white American bosses, working for very low wages in poor conditions. Because of these issues, they wanted to fight against these issues but were often punished or threatened if they did.

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Latin American immigrants and workers in the U.S. are working in difficult conditions as laborers and experiencing very poor pay, threats to their citizenship, and intimidation.

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Today, women still arent treated exactly like men, but it's gotten pretty close over the years. For example in the work place, women dont make as much money as their male counter parts, they still are able to make good money, but it isnt completely equal. Organizations and groups of women still continue to fight for rights and equality and they are determined to continue until they get where they want to be.

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Because women were not yet treated equal to men, both wage wise and what say they had in society, many women protested and formed various organizations such as the National Organization for Women in 1966

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In the 1960s-70s, women were faced with many issues in the new workforce such as unequal pay and sexual harassment. The invention of birth control gave women freedom to take control of their lives, and the idea of being in control and women having power in society sparked feminism, which is still apparent in America today.

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Women are beginning to leave the household norm and instead work in corporate and other white-collar jobs. Unfortunately, they are being treated as lessers to men, being intimidated or treated differently, being paid less, and still expected to take care of the family.

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One of the big things in recent times that is leading for change is the LGBT and BLM movements. With the killing of George Floyd last year, many people (mainly african americans) protested for black rights and for the idea that black lives matter equally to everyone else in America. Similarly with the LGBT community, they haven't really protested as much, but rather rally and try to gain support. Both of these movements are notorious in America and are both taking action and taking advantage of their platforms in order to receive what they want. It isn't easy for them, but they are willing to make sacrifices to make history and change the future.

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This issue is a huge one today, because as the LGBT community has become more public and out there, more people are demanding change. As of 2020, 37/50 states have completely legalized gay marriage, and of the 13 that haven't, 8 are working their way towards it. For Interracial couples, it wasn't until 1967 when they legalized interracial marriage across the board. Not allowing interracial marriages was deemed unconstitutional so therefore they allowed it. Personally I think that the LGBT community is going down the same road that people of color went through in terms of civil rights, and it's only a matter of time before they realize that LGBT isn't hurting anybody and the restrictions that are put against LGBT people are simply unconstitutional.

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Interracial and non-heterosexual relationships are a serious taboo and even illegal in many states. Certain marriage laws prevent the government licensing of certificates to interracial couples and there are no states that allow licenses being issues to LGBT couples.

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Along with the school systems, segregation has been apparent, but not in the way of a certain white vs colored side for everything, but rather just not including people of color. A good example of this today is the new voting laws put in place in Georgia. The voting places in Georgia are soon to be harder to vote at after seeing a huge increase in black votes in the recent 2020 Presidential election. Because there was more at-home voting options, more people of color voted and allowed for the people to vote democrat instead of republican. Republican law makers in Georgia didn't like that so they are making it harder for some people to vote which is completely unconstitutional and therefore, they are receiving a lot of backlash.

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Today, though there aren't distinct black vs white areas, areas have become very concentrated with either black or white. Todays segregation in schools stems from income. Because families may not be able to afford to live in nicer areas, there are areas where schools aren't as well supported, leading to and educational gaps between students with wealthy families and students without.

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Since Plessy V. Ferguson there has been widespread segregation and discrimination in public facilities like transportation, restaurants, and bathrooms. The segregated places are clearly not equal even though they are separate.

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ENDA is a plan presented by the 112th Congress which proposes what is very similar to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but includes members of LGBT. The basis of ENDA is that everyone deserves equal treatment in the workforce, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

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Between 40-90% of LGBT+ workers have experienced some sort of harrassment in the workplace and because there are no federal laws saying that it is illegal to fire/treat someone poorly that is LGBT, it continues to occur.

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Throughout the country African Americans and LGBT are being discriminated against in employment opportunities and even housing just because of their skin color or sexual orientation. There are no laws preventing such practices.

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The collective of 5 different cases brought before the Supreme Court in 1954-55 that were looking at different examples of segregation at schools. After a couple of years of the case, they determined that the black vs white schools were drastically different and that it was completely unconstitutional to have these two groups divided for no apparent reason

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored people, founded in 1909 continuously fought for the abolition of the Jim Crow laws, along with other discriminative laws against African Americans. They aimed to target congress in order to get racism from the stem and change

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In this supreme court case, Plessy refused to give up his bus seat to a white man (which was required at the time) and was arrested for doing so. Because there were rules saying he was required to have fair trial, but because everyone was so racist and unforgiving towards blacks, he lost the trial.

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Plessy V. Ferguson has nationally allowed states to segregate school systems to keep races to their own schools. However, the schools are clearly not equal, which prevents Black communities from having equal opportunities.

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One of the big things that MLK Jr. did was that he took huge crowds of African Americans to vote, and when they were turned down because of polling taxes, he took action, eventually influencing the end of polling taxes and the guarantee for black voters.

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The 15th amendment was made to combat racism, by saying that a person's right to vote should not be inhibited based off of their race or skin color. But because of this law, racists found ways around this amendment in order to make sure people of color couldn't vote

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Although the 15th Amendment regulates that all states must allow citizens of all races to vote, different states have created laws that have directly kept African Americans from voting including poll taxes and literacy tests.