Racial segregation

Racial segregation is characterized by separation of different races in daily life, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a rest room, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home. Segregation may be mandated by law or exist through social norms. Segregation may be maintained by means ranging from discrimination in hiring and in the rental and sale of housing to certain races to vigilante violence such as lynching; a situation that arises when members of different races mutually prefer to associate and do business with members of their own race this is a picture of segregated seating/waiting areas at a train station. this comes to show that segregation was not only in restaurants, neighborhoods,and school. It was every where


This is the level of segregation modernly it is alot higher than we expected. the results are massive. To us this showed how even in this modern, free country we live in, there is still many segregated areas.


This is a picture ky and I found we both was a very interesting statement. What if schools were segregated this way. Between rich and poor. what is the difference as well. Black and White, poor and rich. Those are both things that people cannot change easily. I think it also shows how fullish of an idea of segregation is. dividing people on how they look, their appearance. not their personality.

This is a picture of Fredrick Douglass. he was an American abolitionist. many African Americans looked up to him as a leader and influence. He is one of the most promoted figures in African American history. He was a firm believer in equal rights for all people. Including, black, female, native American and recent immigrant. He believed in no segregation. One of his many spoken quotes was; "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."

Ilan’s artist statement

Ky and I chose segregation for our topic we researched. Not only were there segregated restaurants and waiting rooms but also sometimes, whole towns were segregated. We wanted to choose a quilt piece that would sum up judging people by the color of their skin and not their personality. So our final quilt piece ended up looking exactly how we wanted to represent our topic. On the right side of the quilt square there is a white square and in it’s shadow there are three colors. Which are bigger then the plain shade of white. Next to the white square there is a human who can only see the white. On the other side it is a black square. And behind hind it, the same colors behind the whiter square. With a small person in front of the black square unable to see anyone else. The black and white represents the different races, white and other. The colors behind them represent the fact the appearance of some one is always the first thing you see. It will take time to really know them. The colors are the same on both side to show even with a different race two different looking people can be very much a like and have a lot of things in common. The small person in front of the plain colored square represents the fact people normally only see the appearance of the person. Until they take time to move behind the skin color. The flame in the middle represented there is the flame dividing then two races, segregation between the two.



Segregation destroyed any relationship that white people had with black people. Because of it, black people did not have the same rights as white people. They were not allowed to do many of the things that white people had the rights to do. Black people were treated as second class citizens and were discriminated against and mistreated by whites. The picture to the left is of a black school. It tells us how many things had to do differently.



Ky's Artist statement

The quilt piece contains of a flame heading down the middle of the square which represents the segregation and separation between white and black people. On the one side of the piece is a tiny figure of a person and a black square which is all the black people, then behind the square is a shadow of colors. Red, green, and blue. The other side consists of the same things: a figure, square, and a shadow of colors. This time the square is white which represents all the white people. The color behind is still the same which means that, just because we look different or have different skin colors , doesn't mean we can't think or feel the same way.

Ky and Ilan
frank's design team