Ségrégation aux Etats-unis

Racial segregation is an organized separation of law or fact, among groups differentiated by the color of the skin, within the same country. The separation can be physical with places prohibited to certain groups (restaurant, toilets, school, cinema, dwelling) or take the form of discrimination. For this, many people fought. In our development, we will first discuss the fight of Rosa Parks, and that of Ruby Bridges.

First, we Rosa Parks. On 1 December 1955, in Montgomery, a white passenger asked to leave his seat, but Rosa refused., she was arrested. From this day begins the movement of the "bus boycott" all blacks do not take the bus for 381 days; instead, they use taxis or car pooling. This movement is initiated by Martin Luther King. After all this, Rosa lectures, and is part of an association to educate children about segregation and "civil right movement. ". She gets the model of freedom by Clinton and the gold medal of the US Congress. This woman changed the course of the nation.

On the other hand, Ruby bridges in Mississippi. This woman was the first black child to integrate a school for white children. Because of the opposition of whites to integrate blacks, she needed protection for entering school. But local police officers and state refusing to protect it, it was accompanied by "marshall" federal. His first day at school, 14 November 1960, was commemorated in a Norman Rockwell painting entitled The Problem We All Live With..." It is now the spokesman for the Ruby Bridges Foundation, founded in 1999 to promote "the values of tolerance, respect and appreciation of differences." On 27 October 2006, the municipality of Alameda, California, opened an elementary school named Ruby Bridges and made a statement in her honor. She describes her organization as "racism is an important disease."

To conclude, we can say that these two great people have had an impact on the segregation of blacks. Indeed, in the 1960s, under pressure from the civil rights movement, Jim Crow laws were abolished and new legislation extending the black civil rights was passed. Today, nothing of this would exist, but there are still racists against blacks, although today racism is punished.

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