Segregation Laws

SEGREGATION LAWS IN THE USA

By: Irene Tineo and Meritxell Mas

INDEX

-Racial segregation in the USA -Issues in the south -Issues in the north -Barack Obama -Martin Luther King -Rosa Parks -Conclusions

Racial segregations in the USA Racial segregation

Included:

FACILITIES

SERVICES

Transporting alone racial lines

employment

OPPORTUNITIES

education

housing

The expression refers primarily to the legally or socially enforced separation of African Americans from other races, but can more loosely refer to voluntary separation, and also to separation of other racial or ethnic minorities from the majority mainstream society and communities.

Issues in the south After the end of Reconstruction, which followed from the Compromise of 1877, the north states didn't like the slavery and the south states liked them. Some similarities between the situation in the Southern United States and South Africa under Apartheid were:

The races were kept separate:

Schools, hotels, bars, hospitals, toilets, parks, telephone booths, separate sections in the cinema, libraries, buses and restaurants

In South Africa, marriage between whites and nonwhites was banned during Apartheid. In America, state laws prohibiting interracial marriage had been enforced throughout the South and in many Northern states since the Colonial era.

Issues in the north Formal segregation also existed in the North. Some neighborhoods were restricted to blacks and job opportunities were denied them by unions .

Despite the actions of abolitionists, life for free blacks was difficult. Most free blacks lived in racial places in the major cities of the North. There, poor living conditions led to disease and death. Even wealthy blacks were prohibited from living in white neighborhoods due to whites' fear of declining property values.

Northern blacks were forced to live in a white man's democracy, and suffered discrimination for their race. In their allblack communities, they continued to build their own churches and schools and to develop vigilance committees to protect members of the black community from hostility and violence.

Barak Obama Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Obama, the first black President of the United States, was, throughout his campaign, criticized as being either "too black" or "not black enough”.

MARTIN LUTHER SAID: I have a dream “I have a dream, that one day this nation will rise up, and live out the true of its creed. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. “

Martin Luther King was a man that fought against racism in the USA. Watch this video and see what he said and what he did for achieve it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZtNbDmv1r4&feature=related

ROSA PARKS, a woman who changed a nation Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on the 4th of February, 1913.In the public transport buses, the first four rows of seats were reserved for white people; the rest were for the black people. A sign board was placed in the bus indicating the sections reserved for each color. When the number of white people on the bus increased, the board was moved back, and more seats would become available for the white people. The black people in those seats either had to move to the back of the bus, or stand or leave the bus.

Conclusions After we finish this presentation, we concluded that people haven't got to discriminate the black, they have the same rights that the white people. Some American people said: “ROSA SAT SO MARTIN COULD MARCH SO OBAMA COULD RUN (for president)” Nowadays, some people still thinking that black people is especial, that they are different that whites. We learn that discrimination is not a way to coexist very well.

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