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Brown Vs. Board Of Education

The Unites States of America is a country that partook in the segregation of blacks and whites. The Civil Rights movement was an unprecedented historical event with a purpose to ameliorate the conditions of black persons in the United States of America. The Civil Rights movement also worked to change the way minorities, especially black persons, are viewed. Since the abolition of slavery, into the late 1960’s, black persons were fighting ,for which they had not been accommodated for. Segregation is the policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, and was the main problem of those times. Segregation effected how minorities were treated in schools, housing and public or commercial facilities, inevitably enforcing discrimination.
There were two forms of segregation that occurred in America; de jure and de facto segregation.(nps.gov) De jure segregation was segregation that was being enforced by laws,and this type of segregation was eliminated in the US in the mid 1960’s. De facto segregation refers to segregation that occurs as “a matter of fact”, such as where one lives or where one goes to school. The most prominent site of segregation in the US took place in the southern states(Wexler 32) The segregation that occurred in the south held many similarities to apartheid that took place in South Africa such as races being kept separate, the prohibiting of miscegenation and voting rights being systemically restricted or denied. The list of laws in the south that restricted blacks from their rights and freedoms were called Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws were laws instituted by the new democratic governments in the south to separate the black and white racial groups in order to enforce white supremacy(wikipedia.org). Arguably the most controversial form of segregation in the US was in the education system. Jim Crow laws pertaining to the segregation of schools were as follows: the schools for white children...

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