DBQ-racism
Ever since the transportation of slaves from Africa to the U.S., or even before that, there has been the act of racism between the Whites and the Blacks. It is thought to be ended in the 1960s, but it is still going on in many parts of the world. It was prevalent in the U.S. especially from WWI to the 1960s, the time when the Blacks really fought for their civil rights. They had lower wages, organized the bus boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr., the Greensboro Sit-In in 1960, the crisis of segregation in schools, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, and many more.In the letter from Emmet Scott during the WWI, he says that he immediately wants to get away from the south, but can't because the Whites will kill him if he doesn't fight for their country and if they ever hear him say that he wants to leave. They also have no money to move to the north because they don't get paid much. All they want is a place where they'll be needed and accepted, but the Whites keep them back. This is racism because they don't get paid as much as the White workers do, they don't get descent food and clothing, and is forced to fight in the war.
In 1995, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a White person and was arrested. Due to this, Martin Luther King Jr. formed a nonviolent bus boycott in Montgomery which was successful. The following year, the Supreme Court ruled that segregated seating in buses was unconstitutional and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, enforcing voting rights to all Blacks.
Also during the 1950s and 1960s, many southern schools were segregated until the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas decision, ending segregation in all schools. Shown in the graph of school segregation, about three-fourths of the states had less than five percent of the Blacks attending school there. But some refused to follow the new law, and Eisenhower, the President at the time, sent U.S. Army to Little Rock's Central High School to protect the new Black students.
On February 1, 1960, four African American students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, an all black college, sat down at a segregated lunch counter in the Greensboro Woolworth's store. The lunch counter was open to all, but only served whites. Although they were refused service, they were allowed to stay at the counter, starting sit-ins and economic boycotts. As shown in the picture of Greensboro Sit-In, many people poured drinks on them.
During the WWI through 1960s, it was probably the most segregated time in the U.S. The Blacks were mistreated by getting lower wages, segregated schools, the accusation of Jesse Washington, and many more. But because the Blacks at the time fought their best, the Blacks now have voting rights, no segregation in schools, buses, or restaurants, and are free.
posted by Yoshimi Nomura @ 3:51 PM
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