BASIC PRESENTATION

Segregation in the USA

Englisch Leistungskurs Q1

What does Segregation mean?

Definition

• Segregation means keeping keeping people apart
• Most common type of segregation is the racial discremination
• One group of people is treated differently than others

African American Segregation

• In the USA the word "Segregation" means how African American have been treated in the past
• African Americans originally come from Africa ➜ ancestors were brought to the USA as enslaved people more than 400 years ago
• Treated like posessions and not like human beings
• No education
• In the mid-1800s slavery ended ➜ black people had still no chance for good education or a good job because of the black codes
• Black codes helped white people to get control over African Americans back

African American Segregation

• In the late 1870s, south states passed laws ( Jim Crow laws) that made segregation official
• The white people feared thatblacks would achieve the same social staus as them
• ➜ schools for only white people and schools for only black people
• Black people had to sit in different areas on publictransportaion
• Signs were used to show non-whites were they could legally walk, talk, eat and drink etc.
• In places that were racially mixed, black people hat to wait until all whites were served
• Many black people moved to the north becuase of the laws
• The North had laws that didn't allow black people to buy property in certain areas ➜ neighborhoods that were separated from white ones

Ending of segregation

• The Civil rights movement ended some form of segregation
• A law suit called Brown v. Board of Education said that schools should not be segregated anymore
• The Civil Rights Acts of 1964 ended segregation in public places

Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spituratlly...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than..."You are not equal to...'

Martin Luther King

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