Discrimination Sources Question

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  1. a) Social discrimination is shown in source one. Source two shows racial segregation in the work area where a water fountain is labelled ‘for coloured only’.

b) Source two shows a water fountain labelled ‘for coloured only’ showing how black people were discriminated against.

           Source one is a speech by Martin Luther King quoted in ‘The USA: A divided union’ by Neil De Marco. He supports what source two says in his speech when he says, “On your job…you would use a water fountain and lavatory labelled coloured”.

  1. In source one racial and social discrimination are shown. We see this when Martin Luther King talks about ‘jim-crow hospitals’ and makes points that show social discrimination based on race. We see this when he says, “spend your childhood playing mainly in the streets because the ‘coloured’ parks were simply inadequate”. This shows that black children’s play areas were far below the standard of those made for white children. Also, he mentions about racial, social and economic discrimination in the work area when he says “you had better settle on doing menial work…if you were fortunate enough to get a job you could expect…that promotion would not come to you, but to a white employee regardless if your comparative talents…on your job you would eat in a separate place and use a water fountain and lavatory labelled coloured”. Also, at the end of this source political discrimination against blacks is shown when Martin Luther King says, “you would be confronted with every conceivable obstacle to taking that most important walk a Negro American can take- the walk to the ballot box!" This shows that black people were disenfranchised, meaning that they couldn’t even have say in the countries political issues.

In source two social discrimination is shown. This source relates to source one and a picture of a water fountain labelled ‘for coloured only’ is shown. This shows that because of their skin colour black people had to have separate public facilities from white people. This would have been the same in any other place including the work area and this is social discrimination.

In source three there is social and political discrimination against black people shown. We see social discrimination when in this source it shows different public transport for black and white people with black drivers for black transportation and white drivers for white transportation. Also, social discrimination is seen again in this source when it says “require separate waiting rooms and facilities in airports”. This shows social discrimination because even in places such as airport waiting rooms blacks are discriminated against and can’t even sit where they like. Another example of social discrimination in this source is when it says “Texas prohibited ‘Caucasians’ and ‘Africans’ from boxing and wrestling together. It is showing that social discrimination is official both in state and federal law.

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In sources four and five judicial discrimination is shown. Both of these sources relate to fear and lack of justice. Source four shows a girl in fear for her life, just because she is black.

    Source five shows that even in court black people couldn’t get justice. It clearly shows legal discrimination against black people. The courts were supposed to be unbiased but because William Zanzinger had killed a black woman he only got a six-month sentence, this shows great injustice and is proof that the courts were biased. This confirms that the fear the girl felt ...

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