Civil rights in the USA

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Shabrina Ali                                                                                            04/05/2007  

        Civil rights in the USA coursework assignments

1). Describe the disadvantages that Black Americans faced in the early 1950’s.

During the early 1950’s, black Americans faced many disadvantages in America. In consideration not only did blacks face injustice but they faced prejudice and racial discrimination. Blacks also faced the disadvantages socially, economically, politically and also physically. Although the civil war had been won in 1864,the war hadn’t won any justice for blacks. In 1896, the Jim Crow law was set out which therefore had made a a segregration between white and blacks, this therefore meant that blacks and whites could not mix freely.

This effected blacks socially as because of the segregation it had caused them to be seperated from clubs, resturants,public toilets,local parks and even hotels, and if however if blacks or whites wanted to mix. It was illegal so in which it would of led to, of blacks likely being arrested. On a bus blacks had to sit at the back of the bus to let whites sit at the front. Blacks and whites had different carriages for trains to prevent people mixing.

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Segregation had affected a major part of black American lives, economically blacks faced poorer education. Many had little illieteracy. Statistics show that in 1930, 16.3% blacks was illiterate and that 1.8% whites were illiterate. A example of poorer education, was that black and white children could not attend the same school in which led to blacks having little learning skills compared to whites. This led to black people suffering as because they had little learning knowledge in which could lead them to not getting a good job or even not having enough money to attend all blacks university.However even if ...

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