Segregation unfair equality, was caused by the majority of whites who believed that they were the leading race and took extensive measures to ensure that they kept social, economic, and political power over all minorities. The result of this power hungry race lead to several by-products, such as postcards of lynching’s, inequality, and segregation, that would leave a stain on the race for generations. But where do these horrible acts become acceptable? In the book Blue Front by Martha Collins, Cairo is one example of many communities where these ideals start and continue through families. The ideals given by parents to their children, are heled near and dear and adopted as truth. Parental influence on children and young generations has caused
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On both ends, there were extensive measures taken, especially in the ways that parents and role models affected the way that children are growing up to become. During the time of lynching’s and Martin Lurther King Jr. black supremacy groups were constructed to combat the everlasting discrimination that they received. Groups such as CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) took extremely “unacceptable” measures to tire the white’s out and continued to do so without “caring”. “During the early 1960s CORE members organized sit-ins and Freedom Rides with members of the SCLC and SNCC to apply pressure on businesses and other institutions that practiced segregation.”. (Riggs, 1) In an attempt to “recover” racial equality, these groups would collaborate with each other and make these unethical decisions to sort of give that effect that they were not being affected by these segregation and discriminatory ways. Sit-ins were scheduled to sit in white people’s places at diners and after being arrested by police, they continued to keep pursuing their duty of bringing in more blacks to take those who were arrested spots. Even after several protests, violent acts, the blacks built power over the white’s in doing their own little organizations to combat equality. They decided to create groups to prove that they were of the same quality of white’s and that they shouldn’t be treated any differently and continued to combat the ideals of the white’s until they just gave up and accepted it. In the book Blue Front by Martha Collins, she expresses a poem to signify racial tensions and inequality. “Couldn’t read the same book red only the other’s old couldn’t be served in restaurants only backdoor take-out kitchens couldn’t swim in the swimming pool or skate at the skating rink few could work in federal, county city factories, stores laundry couldn’t be washed in the same machines” (Collins 28) – The
On both ends, there were extensive measures taken, especially in the ways that parents and role models affected the way that children are growing up to become. During the time of lynching’s and Martin Lurther King Jr. black supremacy groups were constructed to combat the everlasting discrimination that they received. Groups such as CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) took extremely “unacceptable” measures to tire the white’s out and continued to do so without “caring”. “During the early 1960s CORE members organized sit-ins and Freedom Rides with members of the SCLC and SNCC to apply pressure on businesses and other institutions that practiced segregation.”. (Riggs, 1) In an attempt to “recover” racial equality, these groups would collaborate with each other and make these unethical decisions to sort of give that effect that they were not being affected by these segregation and discriminatory ways. Sit-ins were scheduled to sit in white people’s places at diners and after being arrested by police, they continued to keep pursuing their duty of bringing in more blacks to take those who were arrested spots. Even after several protests, violent acts, the blacks built power over the white’s in doing their own little organizations to combat equality. They decided to create groups to prove that they were of the same quality of white’s and that they shouldn’t be treated any differently and continued to combat the ideals of the white’s until they just gave up and accepted it. In the book Blue Front by Martha Collins, she expresses a poem to signify racial tensions and inequality. “Couldn’t read the same book red only the other’s old couldn’t be served in restaurants only backdoor take-out kitchens couldn’t swim in the swimming pool or skate at the skating rink few could work in federal, county city factories, stores laundry couldn’t be washed in the same machines” (Collins 28) – The