Question

Consider what you know about segregation, then think about what conditions exist for minorities today. How have conditions changed? How have conditions stayed the same? Provide examples to justify your statements.

Answer 1

Yesterday we celebrated Jackie Robinson Day to commemorate Jackie's first game in the Major Leagues. Every MLB player wears 42 on that day every year. Jakie played first base for the Dodgers 15 April 1947 and made history.

MLK jr. pointed to Jackie's courage and example as a great step forward in the Civil Rights movement. MLK noted that much of what he was able to accomplish would not have been possible without Jackie's earlier success.


Also yesterday, Hank Aaron, who fought his own battles with racism while setting a home run record set by Babe Ruth, revealed that he continues to get hate mail. Hank now works in the offices of the Atlanta Braves. Most of the new hate mail focuses on Hank's support of President Obama's Affordable Care Act.

Much has changed. But there are still idiots who can't get passed hatred for other races.

Answer 2

Sorry what i meant was, What does this all mean...? this doesn't relate anything about segregation ?

Plus can you also tell me what is segregation ?

Answer 3

Wow! This sounds like a review or unit conclusion question. You're saying you know nothing else about racial segregation?

Racial segregation in the US was the separation of blacks and whites as much as possible after the end of Reconstruction and especially after the Supreme Court invented the idea of "separate but equal" in it's ruling on Plessy v Ferguson.

If this is an essay question, you really should familiarize yourself with "Black Codes" Jim Crow and the KKK.

Here's some of my notes. I'm about off for the night. I hope this helps.

The Civil Rights movement began as a reaction to slavery at first. So the answer to how it began would be that slaves were brought to the Americas. In the 1600s slaves started showing up in the English Colonies.
Quakers and other religious groups were opposed to slavery from the beginning.
The first major resistance to slavery was Slave Riots in New York City in 1712. There where other slave revolts around that time.
The first organization to oppose slavery started in 1775. Benjamin Franklin was president of the organization.
After the Revolution some slave owners freed their slaves in the spirit of the times. The number of free blacks was about 10% o the black population at that time.
Many of the States wrote abolition of slavery into their State Constitutions. And the Northwest Ordinance out lawed slavery in any state that would be formed north of the Ohio and East of the Mississippi.
My reading of the history leads me to think slavery would have died out.Blacks weren't being given all the rights of citizens but the ideas of the Revolution were working there way into the American psyche.
BUT.. Eli Whitney came up with the cotton gin in 1794. Cotton became king in the South over the next few decades and slavery became a huge economic and political issue. It had mostly been a moral or idealogical issue before.

The whole abolition movement is the civil rights movement before the Civil War. So I'm skipping most of that. You probably know the highlights of that movement.

The end of the Civil War and the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution and Republican control of Congress and the Presidency, offered some hope that we were on the road to equality. The former Confederates definitely were not on board, but Federal troops occupying those states and the Freedman's Bureau were producing some positive results. The first law referred to as civil rights acts started appearing about that time.

BUT... The presidential election of 1876 happened. Democrat Tilden and Republican Hayes were in a hotly contested battle. It came down to how the electoral college votes in Texas, Florida and South Carolina were going to be counted. Those were the only states that were still occupied by Federal troops. It ended up that Republican leaders were willing to sell out one of their founding principles to keep the Presidency.

Hayes became President. The Democrats let the disputed votes go because they got the promise of the end of Reconstruction, the Feedman's Bureau and removal of all occupying troops.

The result was that Democrats could throw out any blacks and Republicans who held office throughout the South with impunity. The KKK had started in the late 1860s and now could enforce any racist laws or practises the Democrats came up with.

One of the first things the unbridled Democrats did was take away all guns from blacks. Then they restricted voting rights with laws and intimidation.

There were some successes. Black colleges were established. Large numbers of blacks were able to escape the oppresion and homestead in Kansas. Federal laws and Supreme Court decisions were still moving towards equality. But they were ignored in many areas.

In 1896, a group in New Orleans thought they had a pretty good case that they'd take to the Supreme Court and get Jim Crow laws struck down. The arranged for Mr. Plessy to ride in a street car in a whites only car. It was a minor offence with a $5 fine. But with financial backing, Plessy refused to pay the fine. It went through the court system and was the hop of many as being a civil rights victory.

However, the court ruled against Plessy and established the doctrine of Separate but Equal.

That added fuel to the fire. Jim Crow laws became more oppresive. Separate facilities for blacks and whites were everywhere in the South.

The Civil Rights movement was mostly non-violent and worked the system as best they could during this time. Organizations like the NAACP, the National Negro Committe and others formed.

There were black celbrities. Booker T. Washington, Jesse Owens, Paul Robeson and others. But they often got better treatment overseas than at home.

World War II got a lot of people thinking about civil rights. The country had no problem drafting black men to do menial jobs in the Army. But when everybody came home they were expected to return to a life of second class citizens.

You could mark that as the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. After the war, Jackie Robinson was brought up to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. That may be hard to give much importance, but baseball was huge in the first half of the 20th century. The Negro Leauges had developed some great players that most people had no idea about.

Then there was Brown v Board of Ed of Topeka that stuck down the Plessy decision.

Answer 4

ok, But i still dont understand the concept about the game and hate mail (what you said above) But i do now understand Racial segregation... basically the separation between black & white...

You can leave and have rest... We will meet up tomorrow and talk about it...

Answer 5

Btw I REALLY appreciate the time you gave me...! Writing soo much !

Thanks a Tons =)

Answer 6

Jackie Robinson was the first black ball player in MLB. It's a major milestone toward equal civil rights. When we celebrate that event, we like to look at how far we've come.

The hate mail directed at Hank Aaron is an indication that even with all the great strides for civil rights in law and society. Nasty racism still exists. A black hero is getting the treatment by some.

I just meant to give you a current example that shows we still have problems.

Answer 7

All right makes sense @wwhitlock ! Thank you =') That's really kind of you to stay and take your time here just to make me understand the whole concept...Seriously no one has ever done this to me... i THANK You from the depth of my heart !

You are the most intelligent, knowledgeable and a wise person I have ever come across in History, what i have notice, you never directly copy and paste from the web - but write whats coming naturally from the brain =)

Thank you Soo very Much =)