SEGREGATION IN THE USA

Definition

Segregation: separation of different racial group in daily life. Laws aproved the segregation during long time.

all is divided inequally between Black and White people: job , hobby, transport, …

Restaurant, theatre, bar, bus … were reserved to one kind of people : white or colored people

Labour market divided in two part

White have « better » job than black people

Black people have hard job

Violence on colored people was « legal »

Lynching was currentWhite people wasn’t

arrested if they hurt black people.

I. FUNDAMENTAL DATES On june the 7th of 1892: racial

segregation in USA

On may the 17th of 1954: The USA convict racial segregation at school

On december the 1st of 1955: Rosa Parks refuse to give up his place

On apri l the 15th of 1960: Creation of the students’ comittee of coordination

On January the 11th of 1957: Martin Luther King was on the head of the

christian conference

On april the 12th of 1963: Martin Luther King arrested during actions of Birmingham

On april the 4th of 1968: Martin Luther King was kil led

On October the 17th of 1968: the Black Panters’f ist in Olympics

II. RODNEY KING

ARREST

AFTER THE ARREST

RIOTS

MALCOLM X

The segregation is finished but several inequalities are still here.

Nowadays Black people are not only to be discriminated : all people can be concerned

The segregation had disappear legally but today some autorities use their right to practice something similar