The Role Of Racial Segregation In Sports

Racial segregation is the separation of humans based on their ethnicity or color. (Long, Russ ch8) Segregation was mainly present in the years of 1849-1950s. The “separate but equal” called laws that were made to separate humans was a law that prohibited those with different ethnicities from using the same restrooms as whites, eating at the same place as white, and speaking to whites otherwise the minority would be severely punished. Racial segregation is often said to be similar to racial discrimination, but that is false. According to: “Racial Segregation.”- New world Encyclopedia racial discrimination “ranges from individual actions, to socially enforced discriminatory behavior…to legally mandated differences in status between members of different races.” What the article is trying to say is that racial discrimination is as if only attacking one person because of their ethnicity. Segregation on the other hand is the way certain races have to be in their kind of community and are not allowed in any other parts rather than were there kind of ethnicity is found. With the racial segregation in the communities also came the segregation in sports. The races of different colors and ethnicities had to be separated even though it was not yet a written law. The Negros had their own league which was …show more content…
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