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North Carolina In The 1950's

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At the beginning of the twentieth century North Carolina was a Progressive State. North Carolina went through many changes such as the growth of education, urbanization, transportation, and industrialization. Progressivism became a part of a new industrial order. Charles B Aycock, a politician supported education for both blacks and whites during the segregation era. Many progressives brought p the race war and the issues on blacks voting. North Carolina disfranchisement and segregation for blacks came to be as the progressives helped to end the corruption in politics. North Carolina during the early 1950's had big problem with "Race" in the Deep South that could not be solved, when the North did not have any issues at all with it. The people in the Deep South did not agree with minorities, Native Americans and black having the same civil rights as they did. This situation puts relationships and human lives in jeopardy. The rights of the blacks and other minority groups were violated and could not do anything about it at that time. The black in the south had unequal rights even after the 14th Amendment was put into place. Segregation, disenfranchisement, violence, and oppression kept them from being socially and economically accepted. This kept them from being able to be in school, restaurants, bathrooms, buses, and movie theaters with the non-black race. …show more content…

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