discrimination?

Question

when did discrimation against blacks start? was it around in the early 1900's and more specifically, how widespread was it in about 1914?

yeah like.. i get all the stuff people are answering, but was discrimation a major part of the u.s. in the early 1900's? how much would it affect blacks?

Answer 1

Religious and Racial descrimination have been around since humans have populated the planet. And its in full swing now. Perhaps just a little more subtile than in 1914. No race has the exclusive on it either. I am white, and know a few bigots, and it nauseates me. I have also experienced a biased attack personally.

Even the tone of this question is prejudice. An assumption that the bigoted behaviour only goes from white to black is wrong. Here's a list to ponder

Black against White
Mexican against Black
Jew against Muslim
Christian against Muslim
Hindu against Muslim
Chinese against Jappanese
German against Jew
Hutu against Tutsi

This list could be 100 times longer, and it disgusts me.

Let's get one thing straight. We are all individuals not groups. God gave us all a mind to think and act like we want. Bigotry is done by individuals against individuals. Once we all start thinking like that, we can get along a little better.

Answer 2

The terrorism of the KKK in the Deep South caused a great migration to urban cities of the North, such as New York City mostly to Harlem. Detroit and Chicago were also affected. I am unsure as to how this affected West coast cities. Farms were being depleted and cotton was failing to produce sufficient income in the South. Sharecroppers were loosing homes to banks and voter restrictions were causing many black americans whos parents had been slaves to look to the North for survival. Because black units were uncommon in WWI, many were able to find factory jobs in Detroit during the war and thereby replacing white men who were drafted for military service. Hope this helps

Answer 3

Racism has been around since before the written
record.

Discrimination against slaves comes from the already
unequal relationship between slave and master. The
children of slaves, by extension, suffer the same
humiliation - and the pattern becomes burned into
society.

Lets not kid ourselves: Even if the North ostensibly fought
to free the slaves, most northerners would not readily have
associated with former slaves.

The trouble is, the easiest way to recognize a slave
or former slave is by his or her color - so eventually
the color becomes thing thing you are racist against,
not position in society.

Answer 4

Yes, there was discrimination in the early 20th century. In World War I, blacks and whites were not permitted to serve in the same units.

Also, you might want to look into what happened in Tulsa in 1921 or 1919. There was a major race riot that resulted in blacks being put into "camps" for their own protection.

It's a nasty business.

Answer 5

It depends in what context you speak of. I say ultimately, it started when the white man said it was okay to treat them like animals and enslaved them.

But the discrimination we typically speak of nowaday, I think, began when blacks were freed from slavery and tried to integrate into a society that preferred them to remain as slaves. So, there is no exact date because even before then, the free blacks, during the times of slavery were discriminated against. That was before 1900.

Yeah thumbs down to what ever!

But I believe in the early 1900's, discrimination was prevalent but blacks were more into creating their opportunities. Harlem was a prime example. Blacks were able to develop and maintain their own economic ties. They tried not to rely to heavily on white communites. But things began to change, it escapes me why, and the system they put together began to degrade. So in areas where blacks were trying to assimilate, that is where discrimination was heavy. Blacks at that time tried to rely upon themselves because they were being shut out all over the U.S., not just in the south. What happened? Why have they slipped so far? I think because as the blacks began to leave their own communities to for integration, their own economic structures began to fail.

Answer 6

I think it started when Africans were brought to this country to be used as slaves, well before the 1900s.

Answer 7

There are no dates to discrimination. Discrimination has been around since the beginning of time. Even before Americans enslaved Africans they were enslaved by other countries, even their own people.

Answer 8

yes it was a major part of american society in teh early 1900s, amrica was stil under the influence of the jim corw laws int eh south which esssentially prevernts balcks from voting, testifying in court and holdign land. , in the south teh only thing that changed after the CW was that balcks were free in "theory" only. lynchings were common int eh south, the lattest i know of occured in 1984, though i sure there have been other racially motivated killings after that, just nto lunchings to my knwoledge. in teh north balcks were also ostracized, blacks wer still looked at being unable to help tehmselves and were expected to " know thier place" which meant no whistling at white girls, sit in teh back of teh bus and they were to kwno which businesses they were NOT to patronize. tehre were still whites and "colored only" restrooms and fountains in example. "*******" were expected to not be "uppity" lest they find themselves the victim of a necktie party ( lynching). while lynchings were common in teh south they did occur less frequently in teh north. also AFTER ww1, wherein soem balcks did fight, they came back expecting to be reverred for tehir efforts in the war but were continued to be rejected by white society. many race riots occured in america shortly after the war, most notably in detroit and tulsa

Answer 9

1630s when the first slaves came to America.

Answer 10

it started long before blacks ever arrived in this country. it all started with the Dutch slave traders.