Negative Effects Of Segregation

Have you ever witnessed racial discrimination first hand in your school? In the story “Woodlan” by Todd Geralds, the author portrays racial discrimination that occurred in the late 60’s to the early 70’s while they attempted integration in the southern schools. Throughout the 1960’s-1970, there was plenty of racial derision and harassment that went on as school’s attempted integration. This happened to be a common conflict throughout the story, but ultimately leads up to the plot.

Tearing two types of people does not help the issue, if anything it makes the issue worse. By tearing apart two types of people, the people will be more racist because they only hear one point of view and no nothing about how the group of people are and what they’re like. Some people tried to test the laws such as white skinned man, Homer Pessey, who had a grandmother who was black. He sat in a white railroad car and the conductor decided he was a black man and Pessey got sent to jail. The judge who tried him, Judge Ferguson, agreed with the conductor but the case got sent to supreme court.

Many dangerous altercations based in race occurred, sometimes to the extreme in which school had to be closed only to reopen to a severely tense environment. (Taylor) This anger and hostility was not confined to school grounds alone, as it began to spread into the community where it caused more attacks and violence based on race. These actions and words used against students caused Mayor Kevin White to enact a ban of crowds greater than 3 to assemble near any public school in fear of retaliation. (Balloon-Rosen) ROAR, or Restore Our Alienated Rights was an anti-busing group formed in opposition to the mixing of schools and called for a two week boycott of the Boston Public Schools and the white students attendance at these city schools decreased dramatically after this.

A lot of time the reason why most of the Klansmen were not arrested or accused because policemen and people were afraid that the Klan would target them. The when the klan attack they would mostly burn and bomb back schools, and churches. Overall the K.K.K was very racist to black people. Samuel L. Jackson says, K.K.K artifact collector, “People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one 's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.” Beside black people the K.K.K eventually were also against Catholics and jews.

Why is To Kill a Mockingbird banned? Many people have come to realize that the award winning To Kill a Mockingbird was banned and challenged countless times. Although there are several offensive scenes in the book, very many people are outraged that their child cannot read this award winning novel. The question is, why is this novel banned?

During the early 60s and 50s America was an unforgiving place for people with colored skin or different racial backgrounds than white people would be separated and discriminated because they were different. With the help of people of Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights activists, they were able to outlaw and diminish segregation with peaceful protest and speeches. Segregation was a horrible because all it was is just people hating other people just because the way they look or racial backgrounds. In the early 60s and 50s segregation was a huge thing back then and many different activities and a lot of different things were designated for different races.

(cbldf.org). Because of this challenge to the book, the principal decided that all questionable content regarding student curriculum will be disclosed to parents beforehand. In 2003, the book was challenged and then completely banned in George County, Mississippi. The copious amounts of profanity and sexual content lead to this unfortunate conclusion.

Stop and Frisk has been a controversial issue since it was first enacted in 1964. Stop and Frisk is a officer protection procedure where a person is stopped for what the officer deems "reasonably suspicious" and then if needed the officer will frisk the person for weapons. The part that has been deemed controversial and what had many departments in hot water was the fact that many of the citizens were being stopped solely on their race and because they were in a bad part of town. Former Mayor Bloomberg of New York City rejected the idea of the courts when they declared stop and frisk as unconstitutional. He accused the judge of not giving the city a fair trial and said they would appeal the ruling so that they could allow the current stop and frisk procedures to continue.

Your fancy airs don 't come to nothin '—your ma 'amin ' and Miss Mayellerin ' don 't come to nothin ', Mr. Finch-" (Lee 251). This quote shows exactly how white people thought of people of color. Mayella saying this shows that she thinks she’s above Tom and he should go straight to jail just because of his skin color. And most of the white people in the room feel the same way.

Of all the social issues of his time, racism is what most disgusted Tennessee Williams. Being himself part of a minority, he understood very well the stigma and the prejudices of the society. Displeased that "The Glass Menagerie" played in front of an all-white public, has imposed on himself that "any future contract I make will contain a clause to keep the show out of Washington while this undemocratic practice

In 1954 the Supreme Court decided to make a historic decision and made it unconstitutional to make public schools segregated. 3 years after segregation was banned the south was still not accepting of the new rule so when nine students in Little Rock, Arkansas tried to join the white high school they were not accepted. At first, there were huge protests and violence to stop the kids but that still did not work. After that, the state called in the National Guard to keep the kids out but the kids became so popular in the news that the president sent in the actual Army to protect the kids and keep the rioters out. 5 years after that was a big step for the University of Mississippi because their first black student was admitted in 1962.

In To Kill a Mockingbird they also had no respect. They had to buy a church and only go to that church no others. They were made fun of, not tried like everyone else, and called the N-word. Also, Maycomb did not believe Tom Robinson, and since he was black they said he was guilty. “You just hold your head high and keep those fists down.

I get so sick and tired of the double standards when it comes to racism. If this where a White guy inciting violence against Blacks and the United States Government. He get called a racist, lose his job and have hundreds of people protesting in his community. But when a black guy does it people tend to look the other way. For the record I don 't think racism is okay whether it 's White or blacks doing

“Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.” stated John F Kennedy. Moral courage is somebody who sacrificed their life or put their own life in danger to help somebody else or help millions of people. Rosa Parks is an example of somebody who showed moral courage. The Montgomery bus boycott would never had happened if it wasn't for Rosa Parks showing courage and standing up for what she believes in. Rosa Parks showed moral courage by standing up against racism when she refused to move to the back of the bus during segregation in the United States during the mid-twentieth century.

Civil Disobedience Can breaking the law ever be justified? Yes, as long as it is for a cause. Civil disobedience is the disobeying of a law to improve a moral principal. We have the right to protest and speak out when there is an unjust law. This is our right of freedom of speech and expression.