In Southern America African Americans were not treated as Second Class Citizens in the US in the year 1945 this is shown because in the Southern States the economic rate of unemployment decreased from 937’000 to 151’000 which shows that the unemployment rate is slowly decreasing. Another social factor was housing of white people fell to 12% where as black people houses in the Southern America increased to 40% and a political factor was that the percentage of voting was 2% but it slowly increased to 15% showing a slow but pace development in the American political system.
In Northern America the political factors states that 2 black men were congressman showing a development for black people in the year of 1945, also a black man was appointed as a federal judge which shows that black people are taking on bigger roles of life. Black people where allowed in the same restaurants. There were rules of separation; for various reasons meant that white and black people could not be together, but in the Northern States it came into action that allowed in the same restaurants.
The amount of racism towards black people was generally going down in the Northern States but in the Southern States the laws restricted black people to roam America a free citizens. Even when racism began to be abolished their came the KKK also known as the Ku Klux Klan in the Southern States claiming to be heroes by lynching people who would do nothing wrong.
Mohamed Mohamed
23/09/13
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