Modern Depth Studies

Segregation- Keeping black and white Americans separate 

Discrimination- Treating someone differently (in this case) because of their skin colour 

NAACP- National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People- civil rights group who fought for the rights of Black Americans

US Supreme Court- The higest court in the USA who were able to make decisions to change the law.

Discrimination

•  Southern states 
•  Experienced problems in housing, jobs/education
•  Jobs with lower status
•  Unskilled proffessions 
•  Lower wages 
•  Couldnt afford good homes in good areas

Segregation

•  majority lived in Southern States
• Marriage (interracial) banned in southern states 
•  public places segregated 
•  Children legally segregated if education was equal
•  "Seperate but equal"

Jim Crow laws 

•  Series of anti-african American legislation legalising segregation between whites and blacks in the USA.
•  Different laws between 1876-1965

Voting rights 

•  Black Americans were allowed to vote 
•  Literacy tests to stop Black Americans voting
• Schooling was poor/expensive
•  Questiosn such as "how many bubbles are there in a bar of soap?" were asked to stop them from being able to vote 
•  Those who passed faced violence and intimidation

Brown vs Topeka board of…