BP #3 - Mini Research on HeLa themes

                                                         Segregation In the 1940s-1950s:                            Oumou Bah

As we live on today, we as human had improved in a major way, compare to hundred years ago.  Nowadays we as the new be comers learned a lot about how people lived back then. We notice that during the time of 1800s and the 1900s people from different ethnic groups, races, and classes were treated erroneous; such as Black.  During those times colored people where discriminated by whites and faced a lot of battles through out their life. “By the 1900’s the southern legislators carried segregation to the extremes.” (Brielle Stonaker/Arica Shepard)

http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/brown_v_board/segregation.htm

However, the legal system and police supported Segregation, and there were a threat by terrorist violence. The groups such as, The Ku Klux Klan/Terrorist and the Knights of White Camellia killed a lot of blacks because of the race; (Brielle Stonaker) http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/brown_v_board/segregation.htm.

         Furthermore, “The Jim Crow was a system of laws and customs that enforced racial segregation and discrimination throughout the United States, especially in the South, from the late 19th century through the 1960’s,” (Arica Shepard). At that period people who where located on the south where mostly discriminated in school, in public, restaurants, and much more. Colored people weren’t allowed to share things with whites. This law didn’t only represented the legitimization of anti black racism, it also the way of colored peoples lived. This lead them to a completely separation between colored people and uncolored people. The reason why it’s because black wasn’t able to drink the same water fountain, Boating, rest rooms, buses, and restaurants. (A. Rapier) http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm.

         Although these people been through a lot, they weren’t able to give up. They faced the their enemies to fight the battles because they had to fit in; they knew if they stick together they would move the world more closely.