racial justice

The 1960s and the fight for racial justice The chapter “The Fight for Racial Justice” spoke of the rising voice against discrimination. In particular legalized segregation in the South. In the Deep South there was persistent economic inequality. Most blacks worked for white landowners who paid them very little. There was also inequality in education and blacks were routinely kept from the voting booth by the use of fear and intimidation. Segregation was rampant-“white’ …

…horrible and violent but it was something that we had to struggle through. Sometimes people have to be hit in the head with a two by four to wake them up and see things for how they are. I think that the civil rights movement was the two by four and although it didn’t solve all racial problems, it did put us on the path to recovery tat we arte still traveling down today.