Segregation: The Civil Rights Acts Of 1964

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To the people segregation is separation of someone or something. Segregation has been around for many years but got worse in 1954. The Civil Rights Acts of 1964 ended all states laws requiring segregation .Among the states, there was division between colored people and whites. Segregation is wrong Unconstitutional and no one deserves to be treated unequally.Being colored was like being in a lower class.

If you were colored, you were treated unequally because of your skin color. So other people, known as the whites, thought they were superior and felt as if because they were a different skin colors had less rights. In the text states “ When the Little Rock Nine attempted go attend an all white school they were threatened by the Central High School students to hold protest and physically block the students from entering the high school”.(Source 2 paragraph 2). This shows that because they were black children and not white they were treated unequally because of their skin color. This also shows that people were against blacks attending the Central High School. The source states “ For the next few months, the African American students attended school under armed supervision”.(Source 2 paragraph 5). This shows that the crowd at the Central High School was so eager to get them out of attending the school that they
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In the text it states that “Public black people schools receive less funding, less maintenance, and less teacher training...colored bathrooms were poorly constructed and rarely cleaned. This shows that colored people were treated terribly compared to the white people.This also shows how unequal they actually were. The text states “ Things like colored bathrooms were poorly constructed and rarely cleaned”.(source 2 paragraph 5) This proves that they were not equal. And that because the state was saying otherwise “separate, but equal” they were actually not equal but

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