Segregation

Segregation
What makes African Americans so different from Caucasians? Ever since the 1800’s there has been a problem with Segregation! Blacks and whites were never considered “equal,” but instead were considered different in every way. It came to the point where the two races couldn’t even drink the same water. Why was it so wrong to be different?
It began in the late 1800’s. Although it seems that segregation never had a beginning, it feels as if it has always been that blacks and whites have never been equal. In the early 1800’s, the Jim Crow laws were adopted. These laws stated that blacks and whites had to have their own drinking fountains, telephones, bathrooms, restaurants, and even schools.The blacks were not helpless, they had a wonderful leader who was always encouraging them to go on and to take the brutal discrimination they were getting. This man’s name was Booker T. Washington. Washington was the most prominent leader of his day. His childhood co...