Segregation (Period 5-6) by Alison McElrath https://padlet.com/alisonmcelrath/f0ysipm72prt Now that you have completed research on a given 1950's topic, you will share your findings with the rest of your classmates. Double click a blank area on the padlet board to begin sharing your information. Pictures/videos will enhance your contribution! Provide the names of your group members and the topic. You must also include works cited at the end of your post. en-us 2017-03-09 14:26:13 UTC 2025-12-23 10:19:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/93420106/e75606224b7be50102581f52cf46e26ab3ad7e81/48daf62c0f583efd42126c212b9f6698.jpg Segregation in Schools By Benjamin You https://padlet.com/alisonmcelrath/f0ysipm72prt/wish/158987044 The 1950’s was the the being of the official civil rights movement. In 1955 was the arrest of rosa parks ,but before that in 1951 was the beginning of one of the largest cases in history brown vs. board of education. It began with Barbara johns who unsatisfied with her school's poor conditions set up a strike with all the other students. this led to other schools going on strike. in the end these people figured that the problem wasn’t that black schools were bad, it was that as long as schools are separate blacks schools would be worse. Also they figured that if they wanted congress could have ended segregation a long time ago. In the end they filed a case and won, congress overturned the decision made in Plessy vs. Ferguson and declared segregation in schools a violation of the fourteenth amendment.
                                                             Works Cited 
Tushnet, Mark V. Brown V. Board of Education the Battle for Integration. Grolier publishing, 1995.

SCHOOL SEGREGATION, 1948. - White students in class at the University of Oklahoma, while G.W. McLaurin, an African American student, is seated in the anteroom. Photograph, 1948.. Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 May 2016. quest.eb.com/search/140_1700661/1/140_1700661/cite. Accessed 9 Mar 2017.

]]> 2017-03-09 14:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/alisonmcelrath/f0ysipm72prt/wish/158987044 Maids- "The Help" https://padlet.com/alisonmcelrath/f0ysipm72prt/wish/158995624 By: Emma Agoos 
  • Although it wasn’t slavery, different "colored" women were made into maids for white people 
  • Certain rules were accompanied by being a maid
  • For example- Maids weren’t allowed to go to the bathroom in a white person’s home
  • People of different race couldn’t find anywhere to work other than white people’s homes, so it was almost like history repeating itself. The black people were being mistreated by white people again!
  • Maids were also to take care of children- which there were a lot of. In fact, “More than 3.4 million babies were born in the United States that year, up from 2.8 million in 1945.” (Corrigan 18-19) 
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySzeJIi77po
  • Maids were to take care of children, cooking, cleaning, washing, and more
  • In the book, My Louisiana Sky, we find that Granny is a bit upset that Aunt Doris Kay had hired a "colored maid". This tells me that many people were against people who had "colored" maids. In the text it states, "Last year when Granny learned that Aunt Dorie Kay hired a colored maid to clean her apartment

Works Cited
Corrigan, Jim. The 1950s. Enslow Publishers Inc, 2010
Hispanic maid pouring coffee. Photography. Britannica ImageQuest,
        Encyclopædia
        Britannica, 25 May 2016.
        quest.eb.com/search/154_2903500/1/154_2903500/cite. Accessed 9 Mar
        2017.
The Help, Kathryn Stockett - Movie trailer YouTube, uploaded by Penguin Books 
         USA, 19 April 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySzeJIi77po

]]> 2017-03-09 15:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/alisonmcelrath/f0ysipm72prt/wish/158995624 Segregation in Movie Theaters and Busses https://padlet.com/alisonmcelrath/f0ysipm72prt/wish/158996810 By: Emily Panagi

  • segregation is being separated, or put apart. 
  • movie theatres were separated between black and white.
  • “...Many southerners had never been able to regard blacks as their equals or even as citizens.”(Hull 1).
  • “The first 10 seats of every Montgomery city bus were reserved for white people only. Even if, as frequently as it happened, the bus was filled with only black passengers, to the extent that people were standing in the aisles, blacks were not allowed to use the seats.” (Hull 1).
                                                                 Works Cited
    Hull, Mary. Rosa Parks Civil Rights Leader. Chelsea House Publishers, 1994.
    Hull, Mary. Rosa Parks Civil Rights Leader. Chelsea House Publishers, 1994.
    Corrigan, Jim. The 1950s. Enslow Publishers Inc, 2010
    SEGREGATED BUS. - Interior of a segregated bus, mid-20th century.. Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
    quest.eb.com/search/140_1695360/1/140_1695360/cite. Accessed 9 Mar 2017.
  • SEGREGATED THEATRE, 1937. - The Rex Theatre 'For Colored People' in Leland,
    Mississippi. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, June 1937.. Fine Art. Britannica
    ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
    quest.eb.com/search/140_1710376/1/140_1710376/cite. Accessed 9 Mar2017.
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