Racial Segregation And Ghettos

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Register to read the introduction… In America black people were meant to give up their seats for white people on buses, but one time a black women refused to give up her seat and was arrested. Another form of segregation is when people are sepperated from where they live, these places are called ghettos. Ghetto means suburban slum, and the people who live in these are in poverty. A ghetto is ussually filled with people of one race and nationality. Because they are filled with only one type of person, if a different person, for example a white person going to a black ghetto, thers a chance they would be rejected or even violence. Ghettos are ussually created from a result from racism, when people don’t want a certain race in their town, city

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