{"id":327,"date":"2018-05-03T18:23:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tellingapeoplesstory\/?p=327"},"modified":"2018-05-10T18:23:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T22:23:27","slug":"8-segregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tellingapeoplesstory\/2018\/05\/8-segregation\/","title":{"rendered":"8. Segregation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The beginning of Segregation preceded the Civil War, when\u00a0in 1857 the Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sanford<\/em>\u00a0that African Americans were not U.S. citizens, thus denying\u00a0equal access to public facilities. By the 1880s, the interracial\u00a0Reconstruction government began to fail, and as a result\u00a0came the return of White-controlled government. New\u00a0laws under the name \u201cJim Crow\u201d expanded the range of\u00a0segregation and effectively dismantled the progressive work\u00a0of Reconstruction.<\/p>\n

Segregation soon extended to schools, military service,\u00a0transportation and other public facilities. The Supreme\u00a0Court dealt another blow in 1896 in the case of Plessy v.\u00a0Ferguson<\/em>, permitting the enforcement of \u201cseparate but\u00a0equal.\u201d In 1909, African Americans and Whites formed\u00a0the National Association for the Advancement of Colored\u00a0People (NAACP). Segregation in schools became a\u00a0battleground issue for the NAACP, which Thurgood\u00a0Marshall successfully fought in the 1954 landmark case\u00a0Brown v. Board of Education<\/em>. The Supreme Court\u00a0overturned Plessy v. Ferguson<\/em>, recognizing that \u201cseparate\u00a0educational facilities are inherently unequal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several books written during this period addressed\u00a0Segregation. Richard Wright, the subject of a book\u00a0illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, published Native Son<\/em>\u00a0(1940) about racial prejudice and segregation in America.\u00a0Twelve years later, Ralph Ellison\u2019s Invisible Man<\/em>, depicts\u00a0the political and social struggles from the South on up to\u00a0Harlem, New York.<\/p>\n

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