Legal segregation ended more than 60 years ago but are Afro-Americans well integrated into the American society today?

So, I’m going to talk about the Black issue in the USA from the 50s and 60s to the years 2000s

Legal segregation ended more than 60 years ago but are Afro-Americans well integrated into the American society today?

To begin with, I will explain what segregation was at that time and I will mention the Jim Crow Laws.

Secondly, I’ll tell you about the prominent leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.

Thirdly, I’ll refer to the situation of Afro-Americans nowadays.

And as a conclusion I will try to answer the key question.

Let’s start with the first point

At that time, segregation was the separation of black people from white people, mainly in the southern states of the USA.

Black people were separated from white people in many public places like drinking fountains, hotels, restaurants, schools, buses, public toilets.

For example, black people couldn’t frequent the same parks as white people. They were not allowed to marry white people. They were also forbidden to go to the same schools as whites.

On buses black people had to sit at the back whereas white people sat at the front.

They were obliged to obey the Jim Crow Laws.

(Jim Crow was at the origin the name of a popular minstrel show that made fun of Black people). The Jim Crow Laws made segregation legal and they were there to isolate the African American and place them in an inferior position. Afro-Americans were deprived of their civil rights and defined blacks as inferior. Blacks and whites didn’t have the same rights. They were not treated fairly and were considered as second-class citizens

What’s more, life was hard for blacks because they were oppressed, humiliated and hit.

Now, let’s move on to the prominent figures of the Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King played an essential part in the fight for equal rights.

He was an African American civil rights activist in the 50s and 60s who led nonviolent protests to fight for the rights of black people.

When Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to let her seat to a white passenger, he organized the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, the boycott lasted one year and was successful since buses were desegregated in 1956.

In 1963, he led a protest march on Washington DC where he made his famous “I have a dream” speech. The same year, Martin Luther King received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Despite, his numerous good actions, king was assassinated in 1968.

However, he continues to be remembered as one of the greatest leaders in history.

Rosa Parks was called the Mother of the Freedom Movement because she was the first black woman to resist white oppression and to disobey the Jim Crow Laws. Her act of civil disobedience on public transportation was an act of bravery and defiance towards the segregation laws. Both Martin Luther king and Rosa Parks helped black people to obtain freedom and equality.

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