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    Dictionary states that the word segregation means “to cause or force the separation of (as from the rest of society)” (“Segregating”). American society has for decades segregated African-Americans from their White counterparts. Even today‚ with equal rights for all‚ there are many ways that people are segregated in their daily lives. However‚ today’s segregation is nothing compared to the 1930’s America. The laws in the 1930’s made African-Americans feel the weight of segregation in their daily lives and

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    faced was Jim Crow laws or legal segregation. Through the hard times‚ baseball became America’s favorite pastime. Baseball was a passion for a large percent of the population no matter the race but the color line in American baseball excluded players of black African descent from major league baseball and is affiliated minor leagues. In the 1880s and 1890s there were written rules excluding black players bit in the 1940s there were no written rules. The segregation was called a gentleman’s agreement

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    Racism during the 1930s remained a very real threat to the safety and opportunities of African-Americans in the United States. Decades of repressive policies in the country (particularly the Southern states) began to come under pressure by the New Deal programs of President Franklin Roosevelt. Though these New Deal programs did not end such repressive policies‚ they laid the groundwork for the eventual desegregation actions of the government during the 1950s. At this time‚ major organized groups

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    Segregation in the 1930’s Segregation has always been around for many years and been a huge issue. Segregation means the "practice or policy of keeping people of different races and religions separate from each other" (Google.com). To some people‚ segregation was a good and a correct thing to do but for some it’s bad and just wrong. For example‚ Martin Luther King Jr. he was against segregation but didn’t use violence. On the other hand‚ we have Malcolm X he was also was against segregation

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    People change and ways change every day. Imagine what could happen over a series of years. Let’s think back to America in the 1930’s. The white race would treat the negro race very poorly‚ there was lynching‚ false accusations of blacks‚ and public segregation. Many books about this time were written to show how racist the whites were to the blacks. Racism and segregation in the 1930’s was crueler than in the book "To Kill a Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee. Blacks and whites were kept separate in

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    African American Segregation in the 1930’s During the 1930’s African Americans faced segregation and discrimination in nearly every area of their lives. In addition to the poverty that the rest of the country also faced‚ the colored people had to follow strict rules‚ and were not treated well. We can see some examples of the discrimination in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. In addition‚ we can also see that there is still a lot of segregation in America today. Racial Discrimination is a huge

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    Despite great efforts to abolish racism‚ discrimination against the African American people was as strong as ever in the 1930’s. The 1930’s was a hard time for white people‚ but considerably harder for the African American people. There were an abundance of problems for African Americans. Each day they would be judged by the way they looked. The harsh judgment‚ they received was astonishing and knowing that they lived this way is unbelievable. Between the uncivilized living situations and the cruel

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    If someone were to be fired from a company the African Americans were the first to be let go which caused an unemployment rate up to three times that of whites. Because of segregation they received less aid from charitable organizations. Overall they suffered economically and socially more than their white counterparts. The 1930’s were a turbulent time for race relations in America. For more than two hundred years before the Civil War‚ slavery existed in the United States. Before there was no need

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    differences and structure inequalities. Race divides people through categories which led to cultural and social tensions. It also determined inclusion‚ exclusion‚ and segregation in U.S society. Both inclusion and exclusion tie together to create the overall process of segregation — one notion cannot occur without resulting in the others. Segregation is a form of separation in terms of race that includes the processes of inclusion and exclusion. Race was the main factor that caused conflicts among people in

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    of blacks in the South because of legalized segregation‚ voting restrictions‚ and the Separate Car Act and the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision helped further segregation with supporting separate-but-equal laws‚ stated that the Separate Car Act was constitutional‚ and it made segregation legal. The Jim Crow affected the daily lives of blacks in the South because of legalized segregation

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