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__​ SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION __

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Summary - Segragation is the seperation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group.Discrimination is the treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing. All through out the United States (primarily in the south) starting around 200 years before the Cival War, there was a lot of segregation and discrimination towards the African American race. In the south for a long time, blacks were forced to work as slaves for rich land owning white men. Years later they were no longer slaves, but they were forced to have many seperate buildings and places then the whites. For instance they had different resturants, libraries, theaters, drinking fountains and bathrooms.



Why Should We Care?? We should care about segregation and discrimination because it's a big part of our past. It's good to learn about the history of our country. People say that history can repeat itself such as after 9/11 when many Middle Eastern people were discriminated again, and if that happened again our world will go into another major crisis, which we deffinetley don't need. Some people don't care about it, they feel that it's not that big of a deal when it really was. It shouldn't matter what race you are, everyone should get treated the same and have the same opportunites as everyone else. If there was still has much segregation and discrimination as there was imagine how different life would be.





Did You Know?? Marcus Garvey was a black nationalist who advocated self-help and unity among black people. Although born and raised in Jamaica, his greatest influence was in the United States. Before he came to America, Garvey had learned the printing trade, traveled extensively throughout Central America, and lived and studied in England for several years. He learned about African culture and the negative impact of colonialism on blacks. Convinced that the only way blacks could escape white exploitation and domination was through unity, Garvey launched, the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League -- which became known as the Universal Negro Improvement Association. In August of 1914 in Jamaica. With the motto "One God! One Aim! One Destiny!," the association sought to unite blacks around the world.

One example of African Americans overcoming obstacles (or segregation) is Martin Luther King Jr. leading all of the movements getting the African Americans to unit as one and fight against segregation.

In the Brown v. Board of Education, May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court made the landmark decision to end racial segregation in schools. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation violated the 14th Amendment.

