Civil Rights: Divisive In The United States

The issue of civil rights was very divisive in the United States. The majority of white Southerners still opposed the integration of blacks in the school systems as well as on public transportation and in restaurants(Shultz, 2013). Not only were blacks still being segregated, they were also being [physically assaulted, along with any white sympathisers that were will to speak out. The North was different because unlike the south, where whites and blacks lived together geographically, they lived in separate parts of each city (Young, 1974). This resulted in the north becoming somewhat self- segregated, in contrast to the South where government was attempting to legislate desegregation.