My topic idea is racism and desegregation and how America dealt with it over the years. The Supreme Court ruled against "separate but equal" public schools in Brown v. Board of Education, beginning the slow process of desegregation. In a sociology lesson I had, I learned that many sociologists, biologists, and psychologists believe that race itself is a myth. We’re all equal despite our differences.
Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races. This is most commonly used in reference to the United States. Desegregation was long a focus of the Civil Rights Movement, both before and after the United States Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, particularly desegregation of
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Up until the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, segregated neighborhoods were enforceable by law. The Fair Housing Act, which was the first national law to outlaw housing discrimination, ended discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, color, religion, and national origin.
President Lyndon Johnson called the new law one of the "promises of a century…it proclaims that fair housing for all—all human beings who live in this country—is now a part of the American way of life”. I didn’t know what to do at first, but then I remembered Martin Luther King Jr. and the cause that he fought for. Although it was for black peoples’ lives and rights, I still felt that it was a motivational speech he gave for every race and ethnicity. I finally chose this topic because I could understand it, and despite being “solved” way back when, it’s still a problem today.
This may not be relevant, but all of this is the reason why Abraham Lincoln is my favorite president, because he freed slaves. He was the first step towards things getting better for people who were “different”. Unfortunately, for both Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther Jr, they were both killed because of what they thought was right; because of the change they tried to bring