Episodes tagged "Segregation": 1 through 10 of 10
- A New York Doctor’s Supports Slavery
1853
NEW YORK, New York
Slavery, Abolition, SegregationAs 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...
- Teenage School bus Drivers, Black and White, Crash on South Carolina Highway
January 20, 1953
Clarendon, South Carolina
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...
- Segregation Has Not Died
1879
TARRANT, Texas
Cemetery, SegregationSegregation 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...
- Eugene “Bull” Connor Writes Correspondence on the Race Question
June 6, 1923 to December 31, 1946
Jefferson, Alabama
Segregation, Transportation, Race Relations, Civil RightsWith 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...
- Soldier Resists Segregation on Birmingham Streetcar
June 6, 1923 to June 6, 1946
Jefferson, Alabama
Segregation, Race Relations, Civil Rights, African-Americans, TransportationDuring 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...
- Lumbee Education in Segregated North Carolina
September 5, 1911
Robeson, North Carolina
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...
- Reactions to Intigration in Baseball
October 25, 1945
New York, New York
Baseball, Segregation, Rickey Branch, Jackie Robinson, Reactions to IntigrationIn 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...
- Racial identity and the American Experience
May 7, 1928
Orange, Florida
Segregation, Slavery, racial identityA 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...
- Black Men in Baseball
April 10, 1935
Wilson, North Carolina
African-Americans, Segregation, BaseballA 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. ...
- The Game That Ended Segregation in Sports
September 12, 1970
Jefferson, Alabama
football, SegregationOn 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...
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