Examples Of Segregation In The 1930's
Segregation in the 1930’s Segregation has always been around for many years and been a huge issue. Segregation means the "practice or policy of keeping people of different races and religions separate from each other" (Google.com). To some people, segregation was a good and a correct thing to do but for some it’s bad and just wrong. For example, Martin Luther King Jr. he was against segregation but didn’t use violence. On the other hand, we have Malcolm X he was also was against segregation but he used violence. African Americans have always suffered with slavery. Slavery has always been around for more than two hundred years before the Civil War. Later, things got even worse for African Americans. After the war, segregation
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Most of the time signs saying “colored only” and “white only”, would separate colored and white people from each other. Usually if you’re white and seen with someone else that isn’t the same color as you was bad and shouldn’t be done at the time. Southern Legislatures still continued the laws and wanted blacks to lose all the power they had gained. The Democratic Party started making blacks stop voting. “In addition, the Civil Rights Case of 1883 the Supreme Court declared the congress had no power to prevent private acts of discrimination.” …show more content…
She attended William Frantz in November 14,1960. Segregation was still going on at the time. Many of the parents who had kids attending the school thought that Ruby didn’t deserve to attend and have an education in William Frantz. Luckily, she had a teacher who was willing to teach her, Mrs. Henry. She was the only student in her class because other parents didn’t want their children to be in the same class with a colored person. Parents would threaten her by saying that they will poison her. Ruby was going through a lot and it will make her feel bad about herself. Her mother would always kept on encouraging her to be strong and pray at all time. “Several years later, federal marshal Charles Burks, one of her escorts, commented with some pride that Ruby showed a lot of courage. She never cried or whimpered, Burks said, “She just marched along like a soldier.” (biography.com) This is just one of the lasting effects of segregation throughout the 20th
Most of the time signs saying “colored only” and “white only”, would separate colored and white people from each other. Usually if you’re white and seen with someone else that isn’t the same color as you was bad and shouldn’t be done at the time. Southern Legislatures still continued the laws and wanted blacks to lose all the power they had gained. The Democratic Party started making blacks stop voting. “In addition, the Civil Rights Case of 1883 the Supreme Court declared the congress had no power to prevent private acts of discrimination.” …show more content…
She attended William Frantz in November 14,1960. Segregation was still going on at the time. Many of the parents who had kids attending the school thought that Ruby didn’t deserve to attend and have an education in William Frantz. Luckily, she had a teacher who was willing to teach her, Mrs. Henry. She was the only student in her class because other parents didn’t want their children to be in the same class with a colored person. Parents would threaten her by saying that they will poison her. Ruby was going through a lot and it will make her feel bad about herself. Her mother would always kept on encouraging her to be strong and pray at all time. “Several years later, federal marshal Charles Burks, one of her escorts, commented with some pride that Ruby showed a lot of courage. She never cried or whimpered, Burks said, “She just marched along like a soldier.” (biography.com) This is just one of the lasting effects of segregation throughout the 20th