But black history does not flatter American democracy
Their argument is freedom not restrictions
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- Sep 2020
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conflagration
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African Americans still remained—by far—the most segregated ethnic group in the country.
Is this because of the stereotypes people hold on their ethnicity? Why is that ?
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precipitous
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The lives of black Americans are better than they were half a century ago
I agree, yet there still remains discrimination in society till this day as there are still stereotypes of blacks being affiliated with drugs or violent crimes.
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ecologically distinct
Basically they're saying that blacks are distinct, different than others in a negative manner.
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In 1968, Clyde Ross and the Contract Buyers League were no longer simply seeking the protection of the law. They were seeking reparations.
He tried to make a difference so that those in the future of his decent wont experience the same struggles of inequality as he did. They tried to fight several forces against them of housing practices to maintain a roof over his family's head.
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North Lawndale became a ghetto
The whites are the cause of this as they pushed poverty on the blacks to kick them out of communities they feel should be populated with all whites.
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When a black family in Chicago saves up enough to move out of the crowded slums into Cicero, the neighborhood riots.”
The whites were frightened of blacks moving into their co munity so they formed together to push them out.
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Chicago whites employed every measure, from “restrictive covenants” to bombings, to keep their neighborhoods segregated.
White neighborhoods were restricted of blacks but opened up in 1950s by the Supreme Court, but the second it opened up the prices rose so they could do their best to keep blacks put of their community.
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The men who peddled contracts in North Lawndale would sell homes at inflated prices and then evict families who could not pay—taking their down payment and their monthly installments as profit. Then they’d bring in another black family, rinse, and repeat
They would scam them for the little money they had, the whites built a barrier to keep the blacks out.
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Clyde Ross did not go to the church program
They not only struggled poverty but couldn't exercise their religious rights, this is inhumane.
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“I did everything for that horse,” Ross told me. “Everything. And they took him. Put him on the racetrack. I never did know what happened to him after that, but I know they didn’t bring him back. So that’s just one of my losses.”
They took his only happiness and he had no choice because his family was suffering from poverty.
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The authorities seized the land. They seized the buggy. They took the cows, hogs, and mules. And so for the upkeep of separate but equal, the entire Ross family was reduced to sharecropping.
This upsets me because this is inequality to the max, they took their land without permission all because of a claim, this proves they tried everything in their power to hold back the success of a minority.
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Clyde Ross did not, and thus lost the chance to better his education.
This stands as evidence of how blacks were denied the chance to e better life and success because obviously the whites had higher and better privilege's than they had.
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Clyde Ross was a smart child. His teacher thought he should attend a more challenging school
Those with most potential couldn't use their gifts because they were denied a proper education, many blacks could have risen to a higher power and become something great in their society but the exact reason they were granted poor education was to prevent the blacks from getting the same power and equality the whites were given.
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The authorities seized the land. They seized the buggy. They took the cows, hogs, and mules. And so for the upkeep of separate but equal, the entire Ross family was reduced to sharecropping.
They tried everything in their power to degrade those of the black descent, this upsets me because they took everything they owned and expected them to live life in poverty, being poor and suffer from starvation.
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You had to sneak away
They lived their life sheltered, they didn't have much opportunities and had to hide for the sake of their life.
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Refusing to work meant arrest under vagrancy laws and forced labor under the state’s penal system.
Does this apply to the females who were pregnant during this time?
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A man or woman who protested this arrangement did so at the risk of grave injury or death
This is injustice as it violates their human rights, they aren't given the opportunity to build their debt and they remain and poverty mainly for this reason.
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“You and I know what’s the best way to keep the nigger from voting,”
They did everything they could to eliminate the minority population.
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Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in Mississippi than in any other state.
This is mainly because of the end of the Civil War, people felt too many blacks were living life with too much freedom and were blamed for financial issues during the time.
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which they gave to Clyde. The Ross family wanted for little, save that which all black families in the Deep South then desperately desired
This reveals the fact they were struggling through poverty because they use hand me downs and own horses to travel instead of cars.
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degenerate
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