Racial Discrimination In 1963

It was 1963 and racial segregation was very popular with whites. In the late 50’s and early 60’s blacks were discriminated all the time in the south. But in the north where the Watsons lived segregation was very very rare. But the Watsons didn't know how bad it actually was in the south. Racial segregation was a very wrong thing to do, people were killed, discriminated and blacks were finally fed up with it and started fighting back. In 1963 blacks were treated like dirt, getting all the white kids old stuff like textbooks and desks. In 1963 blacks were treated so badly that they were even killed, whether it was when they were protesting or just going to church. In the book the Watsons go to Birmingham, it stated, “however the bomb got into the church, it killed 4 little girls, blinded a couple more and sent a bunch to the hospital. So a bomb was thrown or planted in the church and the whites knew it would kill people but they didn't care. They just hated the blacks for some reason. This was a very dangerous time period. In 1963 blacks were discriminated in very different ways. Blacks were discriminated by having to give up their seat on the bus, being threatened, called names and they even had different doors to walk through.
Blacks were killed discriminated and then they finally protested. Blacks were so mad and they protested and fought. Until martin Luther King jr., blacks were always protested and it always ended in violence. But Martin Luther King found a way around it. He said to protest peacefully and the police couldn't arrest them. After that blacks weren't arrested and they finally made inroads in the protest against segregation. This went on until the march on Washington, where martin Luther King made his “i have a dream” speech. After that, government passed the Civil Rights Act which makes segregation illegal in the United States after that blacks were allowed to do the same stuff whites were able to