Monday, April 6, 2009

Civil rights movement & housing (de)segregation in the 1950s & 60s & today (per 6)

Housing (de)segregation in the 1950s & 60s & the civil rights movement against such discrimination (site 1)
African Americans had been struggling for their civil rights for a long time before the movement in the 1960s. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s changes U.S. history. In Milwaukee, people are focusing on segregation house and schools. In 1968, After the federal open housing law had passed, it prevented racial discrimination in 80% of the American. It also created the birst public school for all race in the nation.

Housing (de)segregation in the 1950s & 60s & the civil rights movement against such discrimination (site 2)
African Americans have to fight for many rights in able to gain their rights as being equal. Many leaders have to paid a price of death to change America's thinking. The Civil Rights Act lead to congess passing to eliminate segregation and discrimination. Black history did not start and end during the 50s and 60s, it is still going still in this day.

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Hansberry vs Lee, 1940 Illinois supreme court case (site 1)
This website has a lot of information on the court place, what happened, who won the court case, the syllabus of the court case and a lot of other things.

Hansberry vs Lee, 1940 Illinois supreme court case (site 2)
This site has an editorial on the editors take, it also has some of the same valuable information as the site above.

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Housing (de)segregation today (site 1)
This article talks about how housing segregation cannot be stopped unless they teach that it is wrong to be racial towards others so that it can further be stopped. Because of housing segregation black people are lured into the worst neighborhoods. Some might argue that this is also a reason why many people think bad neighborhoods usually have blacks.

Housing (de)segregation today (site 2)
According to this article, housing segregation has been around since the 1960’s. The article is a review about a book and in the first few chapters he talks about racial discrimination by real-estate and lending companies. The author explains how branches of government have ignored the issue.

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Desegregation & the civil rights movement in the 1950s & 60s (site 1)
This link is about how one race thinks that they're better than another race. Segregation was a major impediment to unity throughout the country during the 1950's and 1960's. and that the government passed a law to segregate schools, courts and juries.

Desegregation & the civil rights movement in the 1950s & 60s (site 2)
At first blacks were denied employment due to race, in the 1970s, housing had also been desegregated. And what were the jobs that were the ones that sustained the blacks and the people who were discriminated that would help them that was actually allowed for them to work at/work for. And blacks fought to end discrimination at the plant through the unions and other organizations, and this led to a strike of two hundred black workers in 1943.

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Civil rights leaders and organizations in the 1950s & 60s (site 1)
This link is about another rev named Abraham L. Woods Jr. who stood behind mlk jr while he gave his speech. He had witnessed a explosion due to the white clan that killed four young black girls. Rev woods help organize vote registration drives and also led a first black only demonstration at a whites only lunch counter. He also was there with mlk jr to protest were they were attacked with dogs and sprayed with hoses.

Civil rights leaders and organizations in the 1950s & 60s (site 2)
This link is about two women activist Dolores Huerta and Gracia Molina de Pick. Dolores huertas was the co founder of United Farm Workers (UFC) who fought for stronger neighborhoods better schools and more jobs. They also fought for immigrant worker rights for decades. De Pick has been an educator, feminist, mentor of students, and community activist for women’s equality, indigenous communities, labor, and immigrants rights for more than 60 years. She was the co founder of united farm worker Dolores huerta

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