Essay On 1960s Segregation

There was quite an issue in the 1960s, the issue of segregation. Segregation means to set something apart from the others, and the victims of this in the 60s were anyone of ethnicities other than Caucasian. In this time, there were many white people who thought that the blacks, Indians, Asians, and other races were inferior to them. Although this happened around the world, the place that it was arguably the biggest was in the United States of America. I’m going to tell you just how this time period’s segregation was, and just how bad it got. The controversy of segregation was cared for by many people, some of the most famous being Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, Malcolm X, President John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and many others. Though this was a problem around the world, it was more of an issue in
Board of Education”. One of the people involved with this was a young black girl named Ruby Bridges, she was the first African-American child to attend school. Someone that did something similar was Marsha Brevard, who was the only black kid in her school. Many parents complained and wanted her out of the class, but through all of the threat and hatred, she stayed in school because of her determination. Something that was also major in Brown vs. Board of Education was the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This act outlawed discrimination, weather it be by race, gender, religion, ect. That means that teachers, students, or parents could not complain of a black child’s presence in the class without it being illegal. Quite a huge step against discrimination. A political figure that was involved with passing the Civil Rights Act, named Chief Justice Earl Warren had said soon after passing the act “We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently