Impact Of Segregation On African Americans

While the clause required states and other public facilities to treat both racially separate buildings to be operated and services be kept equal, the reality showed otherwise, and many African-American facilities became rundown, were underfunded and sometimes were limited. Segregation, forcefully put two perspectives on American society for both white and black populations. Much of the segregation lead to lower education rates for blacks because many of them who were former slaves were not allowed to receive any literacy of any kind. Even after the Emancipation, funded was low for black schools and were still struggling to keep up with the rest of their white counterparts. The former Jim Crow laws did everything possible as well, even in the
Many tried adjusting to their freedom while migrating in large numbers to the north American states. This was highly enticing during the beginnings of WWI opened up many job opportunities for African Americans in the north. The boll weevil devastated the cotton cash crop and the economy in that field during the 1920s (Gates 1999). This was combined for a push factor for the Great Migration of African Americans to have a place in the socio-economic span of life. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 to politically advocate for racial equality across all platforms of life in America for for more social and political rights regarding African Americans. They fought for desegregation of schools, protesting against lynching, and advocated for equal rights that African Americans haven’t been receiving in terms of their poverty, education, and social discrimination. By the 1940’s, the African Americas saw additional freedom starting with FDR’s executive order 8802 that denied discrimination in the workplace. During this time, too, African Americans were also getting their highest paying wage they had ever seen. WWI saw desegregation of military personnel,
Prejudice still occurred in an incident where 4 black college students voiced their discrimination when they were denied service in a college lunch counter in North Carolina. (A&E). Other demonstrations such as the March on Washington and civil rights leader, Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph and MLK Jr, showcased for civil legislations for social and job equality for all. By the following year in 1964, Lyndon B. John passed the Civil Rights Act. It was quickly backlash by several white opposers who denied the Act to be enacted and turned into violence and the deaths of many peaceful participants and civil rights