What would life be without the civil rights movement? would blacks and whites all be segregrated?

Question

would everything be segregrated? like what?

how were they segregated back then?

Answer 1

Idk, but setting the slaves free after the Civil War was the worse thing we could've done for them. All it did was make them targets of the KKK and caused thousands of African-Americans to be killed.

Answer 2

Would blacks & whites ALL be segregated? NO. Yet, if they chose to have their towns, neighborhoods, businesses & schools segregated, they probably would not be considered to be BIGOTS or RACISTS...just PROUD of the culture & heritage of their own kind without the worry of watching their children grow up in an atmosphere of confusion & hatred. When we all knew what was expected of us, the world didn't seem to have as much racial tension as we currently do! Of course, I'm white, so a black person might not see it the same way that I do! I got whacked in the head in the 1960's on a family vacation when I unknowingly drank out of the water fountain that had a sign above it saying, "Coloreds Only" at a gas station in Missouri! Since I'm a Californian, I had no idea about this type of discrimination & I still don't understand that type of hatred of other races. Sadly, it still does exsist in some parts of California in our smaller communities! The Civil Rights Movement can't change the minds of people who harbor hatred. When the haters get old & die off, then perhaps things will change!

Answer 3

I don't think so. I believe that traditional values get wasted over time and segregation will end. This happens with all values except the biggest ones in life (i.e. war and stuff). But it will certainly take a lot longer to die down than if America took steps to protect the justice of black and whites.

The blacks were not segregated as in unfairness. With the development of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment slavery was abolished, every American is a citizen, and everybody has a right to vote. However, during the Plessy v. Ferguson case the congress ruled that segregation still can exist. "Seperate but [equally]." So the south created the Jim Crow laws that segregated blacks in terms of their house, transportation, jobs, and schools.

During the Brown v. Board of Ed. case, the Supreme Court ruled that this was unconstitutional. And slowly, segregation dissolved as schools were made for both white and blacks, and people were taught tolerance.

Answer 4

Yes we would still be segregated for the most part I think. I don`t really believe the blacks give a hoot whether they are segregated or not as long as they have equal rights and I don`t much blame them. It is very difficult to have equal rights without integration because which ever race has the majority in population and money is going to make sure that it`s race has the best government furnished benefits if we are segregated along racial lines. Black children don`t grow up wanting to live next door to whites they grow up wanting to have the same rights and benefits as whites. Forced integration solves that problem but we are still left with the problem of segregation along financial lines to which there does not seem to be a solution. Racial segregation gets the blame a lot of the time for what is really financial segregation and whites suffer from this right along with the blacks just in a different neighborhood.

Answer 5

In the past was not segregation was only a white power and the blacks were simple second class citizens without no rights or vote.In the early sixties with John Kennedy at the White House, some stuff was changed for good.However, the red states ( Republicans-right-wing) were the same and in these days some are like back in the slavery era.

Answer 6

The civil rights movement was an inevitability. In order for the civil rights movement to be precluded, you would have to change the rest of history. Abraham Lincoln set a lot in motion with the abolition of slavery. Dr. King died for the cause, but it went forward anyway. As long as society fights against ignorance; towards knowledge and understanding, then we will see prejudice erased with the ignorance it thrives on.

To answer your question directly: If the civil rights movement never happened, then it would have happened later on, in a similar way.

Answer 7

Unsure but probably a mix of both. What is true is we would all be better off. Why should the government tell us to live with people we don't want to? Why should the government tell us how to run our business?
If the government hadn't told us we must follow their set of moral guidelines then people would be make choices for themselves.
If a racist doesn't want to hire a black man that is his prerogative. Let the market behave naturally. If the government wants to help the disadvantaged start with their education and development.

If a black man and white man were equally talented would any business be anything but indifferent towards the two. Remember business cares most about profit. Much effort has been wasted believing the contrary.
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Answer 8

I would think maybe,,, more on the YES side, b/c it depends if another person came in that made a huge effect remember it was a whole bunch of great men and women that forced the civil rights.

I think life would be very different. - I wouldn't have met half my friends!

they were segerated back then from Buildings to water fountains. everything.

Answer 9

black people would be even more angrier and offensive then they already are.

Answer 10

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kind of like most of georgia today.