The Importance Of Civil Respect
Civil Respect
The civil rights movement happened in the 1960’s. A time where black and white people looked at as completely different people because of their skin color. This was a movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern parts of the United States, which spread north but mainly south. There are still people today that see race as a problem. Race should not define who they are as a person, others should see a person just like themselves.
People will always see race because that is the way their parents are. Growing up, kids will do and also think how their parents do because that is what they think is right, Kids naturally will not see other kids with different skin color any different than themselves. Almost every kid will have a black or white best friend, not seeing the difference in skin color, mostly because they have the same humor and …show more content…
Blacks only had blacks in their classroom; whites only had whites in their classroom. Schools could legally deny a student because of his or her race. Often kids would run into different kinds of segregation everyday. Education was not the same for each race. Most kids attended school that was closest to their home. Since blacks and whites lived apart, they learned apart too. Blacks used second-hand books and writing utensils. Whites used brand new books and right out of the package new writing utensils. The kids weren’t looked at as the same kind because of their skin color. This affected many students from graduating and getting jobs.
The neighborhoods of the black community were poor and unprivliged because their parents could not get good jobs or even a house in a nice neighborhood. They had to stay in a neighborhood that was only blacks and if they did not, the white people eventually kicked them out of their home. It is cruel how people were treated people based on their skin
The civil rights movement happened in the 1960’s. A time where black and white people looked at as completely different people because of their skin color. This was a movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern parts of the United States, which spread north but mainly south. There are still people today that see race as a problem. Race should not define who they are as a person, others should see a person just like themselves.
People will always see race because that is the way their parents are. Growing up, kids will do and also think how their parents do because that is what they think is right, Kids naturally will not see other kids with different skin color any different than themselves. Almost every kid will have a black or white best friend, not seeing the difference in skin color, mostly because they have the same humor and …show more content…
Blacks only had blacks in their classroom; whites only had whites in their classroom. Schools could legally deny a student because of his or her race. Often kids would run into different kinds of segregation everyday. Education was not the same for each race. Most kids attended school that was closest to their home. Since blacks and whites lived apart, they learned apart too. Blacks used second-hand books and writing utensils. Whites used brand new books and right out of the package new writing utensils. The kids weren’t looked at as the same kind because of their skin color. This affected many students from graduating and getting jobs.
The neighborhoods of the black community were poor and unprivliged because their parents could not get good jobs or even a house in a nice neighborhood. They had to stay in a neighborhood that was only blacks and if they did not, the white people eventually kicked them out of their home. It is cruel how people were treated people based on their skin