Segregation Should Be Abolished In The 1960's

Racial bias has long since plagued our country. Ever since our country was founded, there was a divide among our citizens. When the first pilgrims landed in America, African-American were unwillingly enslaved and were stripped basic human rights and seen as property.. The possession of slaves and slave trade has been abolished and America is a diverse melting pot of culture, yet racial bias and discrimination still influences us today. Today African Americans are still being marginalized in our prisons and courts and the outcome is not good.

The word segregation means to separate. When they separated the blacks from the whites that was segregation. Black and white Americans have always been separated until they were forced to go to school together. The segregation led from the 1800s to the 1960s. In the 1960s they decided to force black and whites to go to school together.

In the modern United States of America, all people of all races are supposed to be treated equally under the eyes of the law. There are no ethnicity separated schools, water fountains are not race specific, and anyone is allowed to sit wherever they want on the bus no matter the color of their skin. However, this is not how America always was. These dramatic changes to our society came about in the mid-nineteenth century during the civil rights movement. This peaceful movement consisted of many famous marches, boycotts, and speeches.

After over two centuries of battling to understand its declared standards of general fairness, the United States still faces proceeding racial, gender orientation, and class difference. Inequality remains a source of extraordinary suffering and hostility over its causes and profound conflict over what can also, ought to be done to change it. In a general public that announces flexibility, independence, and unlimited portability, the determination of wild disparity along lines of race and gender is by all accounts an inconsistency. The period from Reconstruction through the Progressive Era, approximately 1870–1930, was one of extensive established in implications of citizenship, work, race, gender, and class relations owing to the withdrawal

Segregation means setting someone or something apart from other people or things. Segregation in the 1940s may have applied to activities such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a public toilet, attending school, riding on a bus, or purchasing a home. Like Vivien Thomas, he was helping Dr. Blalock, but his job title was still “janitor”. Also, Vivien had a hard time finding a home for his family because he was African-American. So, think about all of the other black people trying to find jobs, transportation, and a home.

Martin Luther King Jr. once stated "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." (“Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes at BrainyQuote.com”) This quote connects with some cases that happened well before the Civil Rights, because the court rulings gave one race more accommodations than another race. The cases decided that African Americans had to go to different schools and even use different water fountains. One case dealt with a slave living in "free" territory.

A Bumpy Ride on the Even Road: Still Separate and Unequal with Pluralistic and Two-tiered Pluralistic Society in the United States In order to illustrate the U.S. politics, especially in terms of racial and ethnic minority issues, many political models used as analytical tools to understand the political resources and opportunities of U.S. racial and ethnic groups in contemporary U.S. society had been proposed. Among these politically important models, two of the most fundamentally important are Pluralism and Two-tiered Pluralism (DeSipio, 2015: Week 2 Lectures; Shaw et. al., 2015).

A Better Tomorrow At eighty two years old, Cruz Badillo pauses for a moment scrambling his catalog of memories for the right things to say. He begins with his childhood back home in Mexico, and goes on to explain how he found himself marching barefoot through the streets of downtown Los Angeles. Standing alongside hundreds of minority men, women, and children, Cruz Badillo joined the movement for American civil rights. It was the nineteen-sixties; he had only been in American for about 10 years and his wife was pregnant with their now second child.

Felony Disenfranchise laws have taken away the right to vote for people who have been convicted of a felony, currently or previous. Some communities’ political voices are not being heard. Most states, with the exception of tow, Maine, and Vermont, have enacted laws that do not allow incarcerated inmates to vote. While other states permanently ban felons from ever voting again, even after completing parole, probation and paying fines. Maine and Vermont are the only two states that allow incarcerated prisoners to vote, while in other states, once you complete parole or probation your right to vote is automatically restored.

If you look throughout our American History racism is an incredibly large problem that has stood the test of time. Racism was especially present in the early 1960’s before the civil rights act was passed and black people were treated poorly. In Kathryn Stockett’s The Help black people, especially women are forced to use a different bathroom than white people and raise the babies of their white bosses. Also there are laws,rules, and everyday normalities that segregate black and white people as well as prevent white people such as Skeeter from crossing the “color line”.