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    Segregation In The 1930's

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    Dictionary states that the word segregation means “to cause or force the separation of (as from the rest of society)” (“Segregating”). American society has for decades segregated African-Americans from their White counterparts. Even today‚ with equal rights for all‚ there are many ways that people are segregated in their daily lives. However‚ today’s segregation is nothing compared to the 1930s America. The laws in the 1930s made African-Americans feel the weight of segregation in their daily lives and

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    People change and ways change every day. Imagine what could happen over a series of years. Let’s think back to America in the 1930s. The white race would treat the negro race very poorly‚ there was lynching‚ false accusations of blacks‚ and public segregation. Many books about this time were written to show how racist the whites were to the blacks. Racism and segregation in the 1930s was crueler than in the book "To Kill a Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee. Blacks and whites were kept separate

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    Segregation in the 1930s 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

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    Racism during the 1930s remained a very real threat to the safety and opportunities of African-Americans in the United States. Decades of repressive policies in the country (particularly the Southern states) began to come under pressure by the New Deal programs of President Franklin Roosevelt. Though these New Deal programs did not end such repressive policies‚ they laid the groundwork for the eventual desegregation actions of the government during the 1950s. At this time‚ major organized groups

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    African American Segregation in the 1930s During the 1930s African Americans faced segregation and discrimination in nearly every area of their lives. In addition to the poverty that the rest of the country also faced‚ the colored people had to follow strict rules‚ and were not treated well. We can see some examples of the discrimination in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. In addition‚ we can also see that there is still a lot of segregation in America today. Racial Discrimination is a huge

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    The Dustbowl of America in the 1930s The Dust Bowl of North America was a disaster in the early 1930s when huge parts of the Midwestern and Western farmlands of America became wastelands. This happened due to a series of dry years‚ which agreed‚ with the extension of agriculture in unsuitable lands. Droughts and dust storms caused by poor labor practice troubled farms and ranches of the Great Plains; causing a great migration of its people to other‚ more fertile‚ lands. The problem had become

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    The majority of the historical events that took place in the 1920’s‚ greatly influenced the way women dressed‚ as the automobile industry grew‚ so did female’s interest in cars. As they became drivers‚ women’s clothes were adjusted accordingly to their more liberated lifestyle‚ with sporty clothes becoming one of the leading fashion trends. Designers influenced by the revolutions in the film and music industry‚ began creating clothes similar to those seen on the big screen. Among them‚ there were

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    from a company the African Americans were the first to be let go which caused an unemployment rate up to three times that of whites. Because of segregation they received less aid from charitable organizations. Overall they suffered economically and socially more than their white counterparts. The 1930s were a turbulent time for race relations in America. For more than two hundred years before the Civil War‚ slavery existed in the United States. Before there was no need to separate whites and blacks

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    Despite great efforts to abolish racism‚ discrimination against the African American people was as strong as ever in the 1930s. The 1930s was a hard time for white people‚ but considerably harder for the African American people. There were an abundance of problems for African Americans. Each day they would be judged by the way they looked. The harsh judgment‚ they received was astonishing and knowing that they lived this way is unbelievable. Between the uncivilized living situations and the cruel

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    Segregation In America

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    Introduction: The background of African Americans living in the United States has not been pleasant. From the 1600’s and on African Americans have faced a certain kind of cruel oppression unknown to other races. Yet as time grew on‚ Americans mended these wounds with laws‚ amendments‚ and certain types of social acceptance‚ such as breaking down the barriers of racial segregation constructed in the post World War 1 Era‚ to improve the lives of all living in the U.S.A. Not even today do we have perfect

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