Seggregation In The 1950's

The racial climate of the 1950's has marked the history of the United States. Seggregation was in its culprit, and Jim Crowe Laws were deep seeded in society. The concept of "separate but equal" ruled in schools, transportation facilities, and public places. White's were separated from blacks in various places including concerts, regardless of the fact that the performers were blacks. The court rule of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), set the code of conduct for society in which public facilities where constitutional if they operated under the unfair, and racist ideology of "seperate but equal" (Altschuler,36). This rulings, instilled in the black citizens a sense of inferiority, and an inherent sense of superiority in white citizens. Such was the stringency tied up to the unjust laws of seggregation, that organization such as the NAACP, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were formed in various states to fight for the Civil RIghts of African Americans.

Martin Luther King Jr., arroused with non-violent methods of protest, against the unjustices that the judicial system had established on African Americans. Furthermore, court rulings such as Brown v. Board of Education contributed to the dissolution of the ideology of "seperate but equal" in schools, and aid the process of integration of black students into all-white education institutions. Even though, the movement for the civil rights was of great magnitude, the opposition, mainly composed of white supremacists, was also of great magnitude. The resurge of the Ku Klux Klan, brought with it various acts of violence which impacted the movement of African