Historical

=Black and White=

According to various historians, The [|nadir of American race relations] refers to the heighten point in which racism got very much out of hand. It was a time in which racism was much worse than it was in the past and in the future.

"//We have done our level best [to prevent blacks from voting]...we have scratched our heads to find out how we could eliminate the last one of them. We stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them. We are not ashamed of it//." (quoted in Logan, p. 91)

The elected, appointed, or hired government authorities began to allow discrimination, distinctively in the states of Texas, Lousiana, Mississppi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Kansas.


 * The four categories that required or permitted acts of discrimination against African Americans were:**
 * -[|Racial segregation]
 * -[|Disfranchisement]
 * -Denial of economic opportunity or resources nationwide
 * -Private acts of violence and [|Mass racial violence]

=1887: Education [Constitution] — White and colored children prohibited from being taught in the same schools(Florida)=

A school for Negro children to be established in districts where there are more than fifteen children of required age. In districts with less than fifteen children, they may attend school in another district with a separate school for Negro children.

=Brown v. Board of Education=

It was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court which explicitly outlawed racial Segregation of public education facilities (legal establishment of separate government-run schools for blacks and whites), ruling so on the grounds that the doctrine of "separate but equal" public education could never truly provide black Americans with facilities of the same standards available to white Americans. [|link here] "//violates the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees all citizens equal protection of the laws//," //Brown v. Board of Education// laid the foundation for shaping future national and international policies regarding human rights. [|clicky]

**The Racism**
 * Most famous case of racial segregation is Brown vs. Board of Education and was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1954
 * Many whites still believed themselves to be superior to blacks
 * Jim Crow laws were passed; "Separate but equal” status for blacks but it still led to treatment that made African Americans inferior to white Americans
 * Ku Klux Klan come into power to try and keep the blacks in their places