segregation era
Legally mandated separation
The segregation era refers to the period in American history, roughly from the 1870s through the 1960s, when laws and customs enforced racial separation, particularly in the South.
During this time, Black Americans were relegated to separate and inferior schools, housing, transportation, and public facilities: My grandmother grew up in the segregation era and couldn't drink from the same water fountains as white people.
The era formally ended with civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
- Loving v. VirginiaCase legalizing interracial marriage
- NAACPCivil rights advocacy organization
- Plessy v. FergusonRuling allowing racial separation
- sundown townsSegregated communities expelling minorities nightly
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
Brown v. Board of Education · Jim Crow laws · grandfather clause · racial stereotypes · sharecropping · poll taxes · redlining · lynching · Harlem Renaissance · Negro spirituals · literacy tests · voter suppression · March on Washington · Great Migration · reconstruction era · separate but equal · whites only · drinking fountains
- Sports Erasdead ball era, steroid era, pioneer era
- Black Literatureblack literature, black authors, slave narratives, Harlem Renaissance, Toni Morrison
- juke jointsjukebox, blues music, live music, dance floor, moonshine
- Miami HistoryHurricane Andrew, Cuban exiles, Little Havana, Freedom Tower, Miami Beach
- racial identityracial identity, mixed heritage, racial passing, ethnic identity, race mixing
- Texas historyAlamo, Texas Revolution, Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, Texas Capitol
segregation eraintegration
Combining into a whole
civil rights era · desegregation · equality · racial equality · inclusion
segregation eracivil rights movement
Organized effort against discrimination
emancipation · Freedom Summer · liberation · Great Society · enfranchisement
segregation erabeloved community
Ideal of mutual caring
racial harmony · brotherhood · unity · inclusion · pluralism
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