Allison found herself zapped into the 60s. She had no voice because of her injury from season 1, and as a black woman during a time where segregation was yet to be abolished, where the ignorance and prejudice of society blinded them to the thought of one race; the human race, she was...
These facts are self-evident: in 1963, much of American society still supported segregation, and it wasn't just the south. The militant branch of this element found a means to undermine recent Supreme Court rulings, particularly the desegregation of public schools, in masonic lodges throughout...
I want to start by thanking you all for creating such a fascinating and insightful website. My grandmother lived in Hong Kong until she moved to England in 1960 or 61 when she was 20. She has been back to HK many times for holidays, but laments that she wishes she had stayed there. ...
Even when black farmers could find unworked land in the Midwest and a viable assemblage of crop and capital (wheat and reapers, for example), hostility and segregation contributed to continual declines generation after generation in black farming (Reid 2012). Such racisms are hardly a thing of ...
'It's still 1965 in New Orleans,' says the outspoken Jonte, referring to the 60s apartheid that existed in all but name in America's Deep South. 'Even now, you only go where you belong; there's still segregation in that there are certain places you just don't go because of the ...
But what made a, once pro-segregation, Senator sign a desegregation bill? Was it for political gain, or was he always against segregation? He signed the bill out of principle because of his experiences as a teacher, his hesitation to the 1957 bill, and his relief of pressure from the ...
To what extent was the Civil Rights Movement similar to the Women"s Rights Movement and to what extent was it different? Civil Rights Movement: Over the past two-hundred years, there have been a number of social movements in the United States...
For the community grid to truly be effective, Syracuse must reckon with a legacy of transportation development that, as happened in many American cities, contributed to segregation, poverty and urban decay. It must wrestle with the reasons previous plans did not work. Or else, Syracuse risks sim...
Segregation was a still major problem. Getty Images A series of sit-ins were held throughout the '50s and '60s to protest segregation in restaurants and other public places. Though President Lyndon B. Johnson forbid the practice by signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, black customers ofte...
Her father demanded the same kind of respect in a time and place where it could have gotten him killed. C.L. Franklin was born in rural Mississippi to a poor sharecropper’s family. He lived in the belly of the beast; he later said he experienced “segregation in the raw.” When he...