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__ SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION __

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Summary
 * To are group segregation means when one or a certain group of people is seperated by a others for a certain reason like race or religion etc.
 * Racial discrimination differentiates between individuals on the basis of real and perceived racial differences.
 * The Klu Klux Klan were Caucasians who thought that they're race were the best and that anyone else (mostly blacks) were lower than them. they made other races feel lower and unimportant by putting the fear into them by lynching, violence and using terrorism.
 * Jim Crow laws were laws that imposed racial segregation.
 * Conservative white Southern Democrats, exploiting racial fear and attacking the corruption of Reconstruction Republican governments, took over state governments in the South and dominated them for nearly 100 years.
 * In the early 1900's, three organizations -- the committee for improving the Industrial Conditions Among Negroes in New York (founded in 1906), the League for the Protection of Colored Women (founded in 1906), and the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes (founded in 1910) -- merged to form the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes.



Why Should We Care??


 * We should care about segregation because we should accept everyone for who they are we do not have the right to judge people because the color of their skin and what they believe in.
 * We should care about segregation because we should all come together no mater what race, color sexual orientation or beliefs.
 * We should care because blacks want freedom such as whites. Blacks invented a lot of the resources we use today. When you're black, life is more difficult. Blacks get heavier consequences than whites. Blacks get stereotyped as thugs because of the way some blacks are.

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