Racial Segregation In The 1950's

Racism played a big part in the 1950’s, it created new laws, movements, and a lot of protests. One of many laws put in place were the Jim Crow Laws, it was to keep the people of color separated from the white majority. Because of this new law, marching protest was a way for them to get their point across. It became violent, causing people to be placed in jail, seriously injured, and terrified. To avoid the violence, silent protest replaced the marching protests.

New Orleans can be described as the most multicultural and musical city in America. In New Orleans, nothing seemed to be able to stop the music from flourishing, not legalizing prostitution nor prohibition. The multi-ethnic population had an energetic/lively attitude that accompanied the music produced in the city. In New Orleans music was omnipresent; there were always bands traveling around the city performing in concerts, clubs, parties, dances and even funerals. Bands in New Orleans were not strictly black, but a number of races.

Works Cited Racism in America has played a major part in the professional life of African American. Not only has racism affected the normal day to day career but it has also severely restricted the sport careers for blacks. Around the 1920s is when African Americans got in the picture with sports. But the whites still refused to play in games with the colored so they made their own sports league for baseball.

The main reason for this is because a big portion of the united states where african american and another portion are white. Since whites have been here longer they have more authority over the blacks. Racial segregation became the law in most parts of the American South until the American Civil Rights Movement. By 1877 the democratic regained power of the south and the blacks suffered as a result. The Great Depression of the 1930s was catastrophic for all workers.

Prior to the American Civil War, the legal definition of the Negro was, according to Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, “ an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic.” Negros were not considered citizens or even human beings, only property that could be bought and sold. Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney was most likely influenced by Chief Justice John Marshall, who in 1833, ruled that the Bill of Rights only applied to the national government, meaning that states were allowed to keep African Americans from becoming state citizens. As a result, it was only logical to conclude that because African Americans are not citizens, then they are not protected by the Bill of Rights. However, the Fourteenth Amendment passed in June 1866, gave full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, including African Americans.

The foundation of America is religious freedom, we are one of the most diverse religious countries in the world with many different denominations. However, there still are many challenges that our society faces as it relates to religious tolerance and acceptance, mostly because of our fears and lack of understanding of other religious beliefs. The terrorist attack on September 11, have increase fear, prejudice and stereotypes for the entire religion of Islam. Some Muslims are using the Koran and the doctoring about the Jihad as the reason to promote hatred and commit murder against innocent people around the world, all in the name of Allah (GOD).

Life for blacks was never easy. When most people think of a time when blacks were treated unfairly, they immediately think of slavery. Many seem to forget that blacks were continued to be treated as inferior to whites even after slavery. This time period after slavery is known as the Jim Crow era because of the many “Jim Crow” laws that were passed to enforce racial segregation even after slavery was abolished. The Jim Crow era was an era of hardship for African Americans because of the segregation between whites and blacks in public facilities, the harsh treatments by whites, and the fact that blacks always had fewer rights than whites.

For all Americans, the 1930s were dark and difficult times. Following the stock market crash of 1929, the United States entered a long period of economic recession, known as the Great Depression. Although all social groups were affected by this catastrophe, none was as acutely damaged as the African-American population, which had already been facing widespread racial discrimination at that time. At the same time, many basic rights such as black suffrage were incomplete, with laws in many southern states (where the majority of the African-Americans lived) made voting nearly impossible for the vast majority. This caused severe underrepresentation within the U.S. government for African-American and fueled the rampant segregation and racial

The 1950s was a gilded age; although it was a time of cultural changes and entertainment for most people, it was a harsh life for minorities. At this time, African Americans and Women were the most discriminated minorities. Anne Sexton, a female poet from the 1950s, and Langston Hughes, an African American poet, were both minorities that communicated the thoughts of the minorities to which they were categorized to. Anne Sexton and Langston Hughes proposed the issues that their minority had with their social status. Women in the 1950s had many different issues they could not communicate.

Equality between the races is something that does not exist in the United States. Racism is often thought of in terms of skin color, but it not only concerns the Black/White racism. There is racial discrimination between Americans and Chinese, Japanese. In America White Americans quite often treat Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans and Latin Americans in a bad way. Black people, who live there were fighting against inequality for many years.