Rose Bradford Essay

Rose Bradford was born in 1941 in New Orleans, Louisana she born to a middle class family with a total of 11 siblings including her as the 11 th child. Rose grew up in a married home with her mother and father, she was brought up in a middle classed family. She quit school in middle school because she had to take care of her siblings. In this area (in the 1950s), the great majority of blacks lived back on Washington Avenue, Jackson Avenue, from Claiborne to maybe Dryades Street. That was your black area. They had their playgrounds and everything there. They would do everything as a black community. In the white community, playgrounds were only for white's and white's only. There wasn't any intermingling on a social level, even in sports or …show more content…
That's the way it was in this neighborhood in the 50s. White families gathered at Pontchartrain Beach, which barred black people. Black families gathered at Lincoln Beach, which white people could use but did not. Audubon Zoo was open to both races, but City Park barred black people, some black children didn't know that one of America's largest urban parks existed. When black baseball fans went to see the all-white Pelicans play in the stadium next to Tulane Avenue, they were forced to sit overlooking third base, in separate seating. On buses and streetcars, drivers engaged in the daily ritual of moving a wood block from seat to seat, assuring that white and black passengers would be kept separate and when the vehicle was crowded, black people would be the first to give up their seats. Segregation in churches was complete. A handful of Catholic churches were attended by white and black people, but the latter were expected to sit in separate pews, usually to the rear. Segregation went a longs way in the 1950s and still as of today there is still some races situtations thats is not took up the right