The Role Of Racial Segregation In The United States

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The main reason for this is because a big portion of the united states where african american and another portion are white. Since whites have been here longer they have more authority over the blacks. Racial segregation became the law in most parts of the American South until the American Civil Rights Movement. By 1877 the democratic regained power of the south and the blacks suffered as a result.The Great Depression of the 1930s was catastrophic for all workers. But as usual, Blacks suffered worse, pushed out of unskilled jobs previously scorned by whites before the depression. To the fugitive slave fleeing a life a life of slavery, the North was a land of freedom. unfortunately, the north made a deal with the south that if their is a fugitive