The Role Of Segregation In The 50's

The 1950’s or any era prior to it were not the best days for black folk. African-Americans were treated as if they had the plague. So much so that white people decided to have separate things from the blacks such as water fountains, stores, barbers and schools. This had already led to many problems since the blacks and whites were literally killing themselves. Although the US strongly supported the idea of integration in the 50’s people still segregated themselves. Segregation was not only to the outside world, but also in schools in which different school buildings were made for the two opposing races. The segregation of whites and blacks in schools only taught the two different races to not like each other more since kids are very easy to follow what their parents might have to say about the other race. In 1954 the Supreme Court found segregation in schools unconstitutional. Ten years later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 required public schools to have integration programs. The 1970’s showed much improvement from the last two decades. The number of African students grew from a mere 12 percent to 44 percent. Segregation between races took a toll and has much become a thing of the past, although not completely, it has improved.

Unlike in the 70’s, these two groups would probably not have gotten along, but in 2015 these two groups of kids would probably get along just fine and that’s due to how society works today. Discrimination is at a minimum when it comes to different interests because almost everybody in 2015 has played a sport or a game. It doesn’t matter if someone is gay or not or if you still like cartoons because kids these are very acceptable. That’s not saying that discrimination is a thing of the past and is completely no-existent. It still very much happens, but as stated before, it is at a