The Role Of Racial Segregation In Longtown

Grace Vaughn Mrs. Gumina English III Hour 1 4 April 2016 Title “Overall, the percentage of black residents in Kansas City — which rose from 17.5 percent in 1960 to 31 percent in 2000 — has now dropped to 29 percent” (As Whites Flock to Kansas City, Blacks Pick the Suburbs 1). Segregation in Kansas City has been a problem for decades. One of the biggest problems in the 1940’s-1960’s is segregation in neighborhoods. This is one of the biggest concerns because it concerns where people eat, go to school, go to work, and many other aspects of their lives.

Even though “segregation” was a legitimate policy that was eradicated in the 1960’s, racial segregation still happens today. It's declined and isn’t as bad as the 1960's because census data shows that neighborhoods are still racially segregated and there is low diversity rates.

In Merriam Webster Online Dictionary, the word segregation means a “cause or force the separation of (as from the rest of society).” American society has for decades segregated African-Americans from their White counterparts. Even today, with equal rights for all, many people of color feel segregated in their daily lives. However, today’s segregation does not compare to the 1930’s America. For instance, the laws in the 1930’s made African-Americans feel the weight of segregation in their daily lives and education.

In the early 1890’s the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal. This means that blacks and whites used different restaurants, hotels theatres, and hotels. Blacks were considered inferior to white people and got less money from the government. The black schools and hospitals were considerably subpar to the white public places. Jim Crows laws in the South allowed this type of segregation and inequity to occur.

Segregation became a big deal in many states. One major example is Plessy v. Ferguson. Homer Plessy, a biracial man, sat with white people on a train. Plessy got arrested for this, and lost his case in court.

The segregation of schools based on a students skin color was in place until 1954. On May 17th of that year, during the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education, it was declared that separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional. However, before this, the segregation of schools was a common practice throughout the country. In the 1950s there were many differences in the way that black public schools and white public schools were treated with very few similarities. The differences between the black and white schools encouraged racism which made the amount of discrimination against blacks even greater.

Residential segregation has a profound effect on the quality of local academics. A study conducted, showed “families and schools in America’s inner cities and rural places simply lack many of the resources that promote educational achievement and attainment” (Roscigno, Tomaskovic-Devey, and Crowley 2006:2139). This lack of resources is caused by the low taxation of property based on the income level of its residents. This is a vicious cycle that continues to trap individuals and their families in these areas.

The color of a person 's skin does not affect anyone according to many citizens in an Ohio town. In Longtown, Ohio, people are growing up with people of different races and were taught that a person 's color or appearance did not matter. Longtown has a history and has been recognized for giving job opportunities to not only white, but to black people too. No matter what a persons race is, they should be respected anywhere and everywhere. Longtown, Ohio is a great example of this. Black people hanging out with white people is very normal out there and has been normal for the past 200 years. In the article, “Ohio town holds rare history: Races mix freely for nearly 200 years” it says, “Black history is not talked about a lot in general.” This shows that everyone is treated with equality.

One of which was Detroit. The city had an increase in population significantly but there was not enough housing to cater to the mass influx of new migrants. African Americans had to endure discriminatory behavior in housing and employment. They had compete with rural white southern migrants as well as immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, for lower class jobs which no one else really wanted. Some of the patterns of racial and ethnic segregation persisted after other social discrimination had eased by the mid-20th century.

1. The health issue we will discuss is residential segregation. This is the physical separation of two or more groups into different neighborhoods, or a form of segregation that “sorts population groups into various neighborhoods contexts and shapes the living environment at the neighborhood level. In addition, we will discuss a health disparity, which is defined as inequalities that exist when members of certain population groups do not benefit from the same health status as other groups. Racial residential segregation is a fundamental cause of racial disparities in health.

Decades ago, children of various races could not go to school together in many locations of the United States. School districts could segregate students, legally, into different schools according to the color of their skin. The law said these separate schools had to be equal. Many schools for children that possessed color were of lesser quality than the schools for white students. To have separate schools for the black and white children became a basic rule in southern society.

Segregation was allowed in the United States of America as the 14th amendment abolished slavery, but left gaps on the topic of fair segregation on all levels.

Longtown, Ohio is one of the only places where races didn’t matter two centuries ago. Interracial marriages were happening here without argument or trouble. This system of liberty and freedom of the races was founded by a freed slave from Virginia named James Clemens, who later became a rich farmer, but this system is close to being abolished because of the decrease of the original Longtown population. Their places are being taken by whites and they are also purchasing their property. This will eventually move out the people of Longtown and be a city of whites.

Eisenbrey explained that deindustrialization and racial segregation are big things that affected inner cities. He explained how black people were excluded from a lot of things such as being left out of the great expansion, how they weren't able to get mortgages, and were kept out of suburbs. Tanner then goes on to explain how he thinks that the flight of the white people also affected this too. The white middle-class individuals would flee to the suburbs causing the taxes to be lower, the schools to be better, and the crime to be lower. They both hit many points on the schools they have in Baltimore. When the white people had fled, they left the black people with what was left of these schools, which was almost nothing. Tanner believed that

A Racist Typhoon A wise Sir Winston Churchill profoundly declared, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” American history claimed to abolish segregation through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawing discrimination against race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. However, fifty some years later it seems as though segregation against people of color is slowly inching to reestablish its dominantly prevalent reputation it had in 1964.