SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II

Segregation and Discrimination following World War II

white people to support efforts to end segregation and discrimination in the two decades following World War II

In a 7-8 page paper, double-space, Times New Roman, please address the following question:

What made it so difficult for many white people to support efforts to end segregation and discrimination in schools, housing, and jobs in the two decades following World War II? Your main source for answering this question should be Melba Beals’ Warriors Don’t Cry, but you are required to draw from at least two of the following primary documents:

  1. Southern Manifesto (1956) [Voices Of Freedom]
  2. Anne Braden, “A Letter from a white southern woman from Anne Braden”

http://www.annebradenfilm.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/BradenLetter.pdf

C. James Baldwin debates William Buckley

D. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail

https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf

*NOTICE* I want two-two a half pages at 6 a.m on Friday and the rest of paper I want it in Monday morning.

Answer preview

Segregation in the US was a significant trend of the early 20th century been protected by the Jim Crow laws. Between these periods’ two major wars the World War I and war II see the black man participate in the fight against the American ‘enemy’, a common enemy. Race battles between the white Americans and the black American became significantly structured in the nation’s institutions such as schools, hospitals, and judicial systems among others. Several whites focused to the end of segregation, but efforts seemed not to bear many rewards…

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