Racism

Racism-with a focus on after the Civil War
When the Union won the Civil War, the Southerners were told that the slaves were freed and that they had to accept them as equals. Many Southerners did not like this (obviously). The freed slaves or any "colored" person were treated unfairly based on the color of their skin. As we now know, differently colored skin is caused only by pigment. It shows no reflection of the person themselves. No person of any color should be judged by the color of their skin.

This is an example of unfairness. The above sign is pointing to a colored waiting room. The colored had to drink out of different drinking fountains, eat at different restaurants and wait in different waiting rooms. They led very separated lives. It was a way for the whites to "protect" themselves.

The lower picture shows a Ku Klux Klan hood. The Ku Klux Klan was formed after the Civil War by Southerners (Confederates) who did not want to accept the Africans Americans. In our opinion, it was a way to "rebel" and show that the whites still held power over the African Americans. The Ku Klux Klan "members" dressed in all white, which represented Confederate ghosts and the ghost of the war fought for slavery.

Racism is still here. Though maybe we don't see it, it lingers around, settling over people and hurting them. People are always working against racism. Racism is hurtful and needs to be stamped out for good.

Mariah Shriner and Madi Moskowitz, Frank's Project Team

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Jim Crow Laws Part 2: Resistance

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overruled Plessy vs. Ferguson. The court declared separate but equal is never equal and it required all the schools to integrate.

Rosa Parks, the NAACP, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The bus boycott started after Rosa Parks refused to sit on the back of the bus. The Montgomery bus boycott started on December 1, 1955.it was when African Americans of Montgomery, Alabama decided they would boycott the city buses until they could sit were they wanted instead of having to sit on the back of the bus. Martin Luther King Jr.’s house was bombed trying to stop the bus boycott. Also they had many meetings trying to stop the bus boycott. The boycott was stopped on November 13, 1956 when the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregation on buses unconstitutional.



Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock 9- integrating Central High Elizabeth Eckford was a member of the Little Rock 9 who were African-Americans who enrolled in Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The whites didn’t want them there because the school had been for whites only. After the Brown vs. Board of Education the NAACP helped them enroll. Even the governor sent in the National Guard to keep them out of the school. But eventually the president of the United States sent in the 101st airborne to protect the Little Rock 9. Eventually the African-Americans attended school but they were still harassed.

Schools are still not integrated and parents protest in the 1960's.





Emma C. & Laura (Deborah's Design Team)