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Did the northern states have little racial discrimination and segregation before the Civil War?
Yes and no. Yes because racial discrimination and segregation were not always as overt as they were in the southern states but no because both discrimination and segregation were still very present. While many Southern people looked upon anyone with black skin with utter contempt, many Northerners treated slaves and free blacks like children. Many believed that black people were not as intelligent as white people and thus things had to be dumbed down for them. Don't be misguided though; there was plenty of racist whites in the North who were in favor of slavery every bit as much as Southern whites. The difference was they weren't necessarily in the majority.
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What were the legal and social challenge to racial segregation in the 1940s and 1950s?
Brown v. Board of Education CaseLittle Rock, Arkansas - Central High School and Little Rock NineRosa Parks - Montgomery Bus Boycott
What was Malcolm X's last name before he got out of jail?
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How did patterns of family life and attitudes towards women differ in the northern and southern colonies?
Try doing a little bit of undergraduate research! Firstmate
What US Supreme Court decision ended segregation?
There was no single case that ended segregation as a whole; the Civil Rights Movement gained ground a little at a time over the course of many cases, and with the assistance of long overdue legislation like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 1968, etc.The case most often identified with the end of segregation is Brown v. Board of Education, (1954), where the US Supreme Court declared the "separate but equal" doctrine affirmed in Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause. The decision in Brown only dealt with segregation in the public schools, not in every aspect of life, but it laid a foundation for future decisions and laws that eventually ended legal segregation.For more information, see Related Questions, below.
How did African Americans deal with discrimination?
They began to bi*ch about how they were being mistreated. They threatened to start strikes just like little pu**ies would. Ever since the beginning of time have these BLACK mother*ckers whined about how they're being "mistreated"; this did not just start during WWII. They need to learn how to shut the f*ck up and stop complaining about how they were born black. Play the cards you're dealt in life.
