Describe the disadvantages that Black Americans faced in the early 1950s

     Another disadvantage black Americans faced was segregation which means keeping whites and blacks separate from each other. Also black Americans were quite poor and they were discriminated against by the whites because of segregation and the Jim Crow law’s, such as separate education and transport. Jim Crow was a white comedian who made blacks look stupid. The blacks were segregated in lots of things, for example jobs, schools, public toilets, public parks and transport. This led to the whites getting all good seats on buses because the blacks got told to sit on the back of the buses. As a result to this if the buses were full the blacks would have to give their seat up for the white people and get off if it was really crowded. Black Americans jobs were worse than whites because they were jobs that o one wanted to do and they were poorly paid jobs. This lead to blacks getting poor money and as a result it leads to them living in slum neighbourhoods. Black Americans schools were worse off than whites because they didn’t have any supplies of equipment and the teachers weren’t trained as well as the white teachers. As a result of separate education many of the blacks ended up leaving schools uneducated properly. This led to them getting poorly paid jobs as a result of this they ended up living in poor housing, such as slum neighbourhoods and as a consequence of this there would be a high risk of crime.

      Economically blacks faced many disadvantages because the black Americans was not getting as much money as white people. This led to them not being able to buy nice house so most of the blacks ended up in slum neighbourhoods. So whites got more money than blacks. Here is evidence to support my statement on the income of what blacks got and what whites got. In 1950 blacks got $3,828 and whites got $7,057.