Integration Vs Segregation

Question: What is segregation?

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Question: What is the difference between integration and segregation?

Answer: Integration is an act to bring together blacks and whites, segregation is an act to separate blacks and whites. When schools started to integrate white girls were very upset because they didn’t like the fact that they had to share the same class room and rules as the black girls.

Question: Brown v. Board of Education

Answer: Brown v. Board of Education is when the court declared state laws to separate public schools for blacks and whites to be unconstitutional. They built more public schools for whites and blacks.

Question: Does this give an accurate representation of segregation? Why?

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Question: Does this give a good representation of integration? Why?

Answer: No, because the black man is separated from the white people. There is also a sign in the top right corner of the bus that says “Colored” meaning blacks only. They are very segregated in this picture.

Question: How have blacks shaped America?

Answer: Blacks have gone through so much from slavery to Jim Crow, to segregation, to Brown v. Board of Education, to Integration to today. This class has really given me a completely different perspective on the lives of African Americans.