SEGREGATION LAWS

IN THE USA

By:
Irene Tineo
and
Meritxell Mas
 INDEX

-Racial segregation in the USA

-Issues in the south
-Issues in the north
-Barack Obama
-Martin Luther King
-Rosa Parks
-Conclusions
 Racial segregations in the USA
Racial segregation

Included:

FACILITIES SERVICES OPPORTUNITIES

Transporting alone racial lines employment education housing

The expression refers primarily to the legally or socially enforced separation of African Americans
from other races, but can more loosely refer to voluntary separation, and also to separation
of other racial or ethnic minorities from the majority mainstream society and communities.
 Issues in the south
After the end of Reconstruction, which followed from the Compromise of 1877, the north states didn't like the slavery and the
south states liked them. Some similarities between the situation in the Southern United States and South Africa under
Apartheid were:

The races were kept separate:

In South Africa, marriage
between whites and non-
whites was banned during
Apartheid. In America,
state laws prohibiting
interracial marriage had
Schools, hotels, bars, been enforced throughout
hospitals, toilets, parks, the South and in many
telephone booths, Northern states since the
separate sections in the Colonial era.
cinema, libraries, buses
and restaurants
 Issues in the north
Formal segregation also existed in the North. Some neighborhoods were restricted to blacks and job
opportunities were denied them by unions .
Despite the actions of abolitionists, life
for free blacks was difficult. Most free
blacks lived in racial places in the major
cities of the North. There, poor living
conditions led to disease and death. Even
wealthy blacks were prohibited from living
in white neighborhoods due to whites' fear
of declining property values.
Northern blacks were forced to live in a white
man's democracy, and suffered
discrimination for their race. In their all-
black communities, they continued to build
their own churches and schools and to
develop vigilance committees to protect
members of the black community from
hostility and violence.
 Barak Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Obama

Barack Obama, the first black

President of the United States,
was, throughout his campaign,
criticized as being either "too
black" or "not black enough”.
 MARTIN LUTHER SAID: I have a dream

“I have a dream, that one day this nation will rise up, and
live out the true of its creed. I have a dream that my four
little children will one day live in a nation where they will not
be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of
their character. “

Martin Luther King was a man that

fought against racism in the USA.
Watch this video and see what he said
and what he did for achieve it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZtNbDmv1r4&feature=related
 ROSA PARKS,
a woman who changed a
nation
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on the 4th of
February, 1913.In the public transport buses, the first
four rows of seats were reserved for white people; the
rest were for the black people. A sign board was
placed in the bus indicating the sections reserved for
each color. When the number of white people on the
bus increased, the board was moved back, and more
seats would become available for the white people.
The black people in those seats either had to move to
the back of the bus, or stand or leave the bus.
 Conclusions
After we finish this presentation, we concluded that people haven't got to
discriminate the black, they have the same rights that the white
people. Some American people said: “ROSA SAT SO MARTIN
COULD MARCH SO OBAMA COULD RUN (for president)”
Nowadays, some people still thinking that black people is especial, that
they are different that whites. We learn that discrimination is not a
way to coexist very well.
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