How The Role Of Racism Changed In The 1900's

Over the course of 100 years, there have been about 62 million deaths due to all forms of racism to many different races. Racism started off as something very violent and very demolishing in the early 1900’s. Blacks were hung, punished for unreasonable accidents, and treated unequally as a human being. As the years progressed, during the mid-1900’s racism has improved immensely. Blacks and whites are coexisting with each other, and working for large organizations like NASA, but the blacks still weren’t treated as equal. Then, as the years continued, racism has improved with the reduction of cruel punishments and segregation. Back in the early 1900’s blacks were treated unfairly solely due to the color of their skin. The blacks were free once slavery was abolished in 1865, but they …show more content…
The whites would use their supplies until they were worn down, then they would give them to the black schools. Little man, one of the Logan children, was angry about this and started to stomp on the book. (This represents how the blacks were treated in comparison to the whites. It also shows that the blacks were treated unfairly and that they weren’t as superior as the whites. In Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry we learned that when people of color are younger they don’t realize that they are mistreated because of the color of their skin. They know they are being mistreated, but they don’t know why. Cassie, a young black girl, was in line in front of whites at a store. She wasn't being waited on and she didn’t know why. She asked why she wasn’t being waited on, and the store clerk got angry at her. This is when she realized that things will always be different for her because she was black. (Taylor) This shows that blacks were treated unfairly because the blacks in the store were considered last in line no matter where they were in the line in reality. Also in Roll of Thunder, we learned that the slightest accidents were treated as assault. Lillian jean ( a