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Episodes tagged "Segregation": 1 through 10 of 10

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  1. A New York Doctor’s Supports Slavery
    date 1853map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Slavery, Abolition, Segregation

    As many northerners opposed slavery, some certainly did not. The idea of the abolition of slavery became the central political issue in the North as well as the South during the 1850s. In 1853, Doctor John H. Van Evrie of New York explained, “Gigantic efforts are now being made to convince the people of the North that the overthrow of the present relations of black and white races in the South, or...

  2. Teenage School bus Drivers, Black and White, Crash on South Carolina Highway
    date January 20, 1953map Clarendon, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Desegregation, Transportation, Segregation, Supreme Court, Children, Public Schools, Black History, Black Schools, South Carolina, Buses

    “W.H. Ridgeway, the 16-year-old driver of the white bus, sobbed in his hospital bed and told his mother over and over how sorry he was the wreck had happened” The Columbia State, South Carolina’s largest newspaper, reported this pitiful scene on January 21st, 1953, under the front-page headline, “Clarendon School Bus Crash Kills 2”. The State ran no pictures of the crash, but the details...

  3. Segregation Has Not Died
    date 1879map TARRANT, Texastags Cemetery, Segregation

    Segregation Has Not Died             Segregation is a nasty, uneducated word in today’s era.  Though most African-Americans died as free men, they had been laid segregated in old, befouled cemeteries usually off to the side or back of the clean, well-kept white person’s cemetery.             The Constitution of the United States of America, written in 1776, reads, “All...

  4. Eugene “Bull” Connor Writes Correspondence on the Race Question
    date June 6, 1923 to December 31, 1946map Jefferson, Alabamatags Segregation, Transportation, Race Relations, Civil Rights

    With racial tensions rising in Birmingham, there was only one thing to do: ensure the separation of the races. This was what Eugene “Bull” Connor, Birmingham’s Commissioner of Public Safety during the 1940s, saw as the only option to ensure public peace. This separation of the races included the segregation of Birmingham’s streetcars. In a letter dated June 29, 1944 to Mr. C. L. Harris of Birmingham’s...

  5. Soldier Resists Segregation on Birmingham Streetcar
    date June 6, 1923 to June 6, 1946map Jefferson, Alabamatags Segregation, Race Relations, Civil Rights, African-Americans, Transportation

    During World War II , whites and blacks had sacrificed for their country; yet, only the whites who returned found themselves recipients of respect. Around 9:40pm on June 6, 1943 a “negro” soldier boarded a streetcar in Birmingham, Alabama on the North Birmingham Line. Instead of moving to the back of the car, he chose to stand in the white section. White passengers began to complain and the conductor...

  6. Lumbee Education in Segregated North Carolina
    date September 5, 1911map Robeson, North Carolinatags Normal school, Lumbee, Segregation, Indians

    “The State is in earnest in her effort to educate all of her children” declared H. L. Edens on September 5, 1911. The remark was made in an announcement that declared the Indian Normal School of Robeson County, which would later become the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, had been accepted “as a State institution.” In a time in which the South was entrenched deeply in the institution...

  7. Reactions to Intigration in Baseball
    date October 25, 1945map New York, New Yorktags Baseball, Segregation, Rickey Branch, Jackie Robinson, Reactions to Intigration

          In the New York Times article entitled, “Rickey Takes Slap at Negro Leagues”, Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers faced a hailstorm of critics as he announced his decision to sign Jackie Robinson to the previously all white Brooklyn Dodgers farm team.  Facing the press, he dispelled the rumors that he had been forced into making the deal, that the Negro leagues had...

  8. Racial identity and the American Experience
    date May 7, 1928map Orange, Floridatags Segregation, Slavery, racial identity

    A person’s racial identity is the “global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.”[1] Segregation has been deeply rooted within American culture for the past two centuries. It has forced people to become more aware of their racial identity and moreover, it has been taken to the extent of violence as well as less extreme...

  9. Black Men in Baseball
    date April 10, 1935map Wilson, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Segregation, Baseball

    A pair of “big league” Negro baseball teams, the Homestead Grays of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Newark, New Jersey, Dodgers played in Wilson, North Carolina, in 1935.  The teams were members of the Negro National League.  Buck Leonard, a Rocky Mount, N.C. native, was first baseman and captain of the Grays.  Leonard stated, “this league is the only way for ‘us’ to play baseball. ...

  10. The Game That Ended Segregation in Sports
    date September 12, 1970map Jefferson, Alabamatags football, Segregation

      On September 12, 1970 University of Alabama under legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant played the University of Southern California at Legion Field in Birmingham Alabama. The Trojans ran up and down the field on that hot September night. The final score was USC 42, Alabama 21. The Trojans dominated the game rushing on the ground for 485 rushing yards to Alabama's 32. This demanding win for USC would...