During the early 1950's, black Americans faced many disadvantages in America. In consideration not only did blacks face injustice but they faced prejudice and racial discrimination.
Blacks also faced the disadvantages socially, economically, politically and also physically. Although the civil war had been won in 1864,the war hadn't won any justice for blacks. In 1896, the Jim Crow law was set out which therefore had made a a segregration between white and blacks, this therefore meant that blacks and whites could not mix freely.This effected blacks socially as because of the segregation it had caused them to be seperated from clubs, resturants,public toilets,local parks and even hotels, and if however if blacks or whites wanted to mix. It was illegal so in which it would of led to, of blacks likely being arrested. On a bus blacks had to sit at the back of the bus to let whites sit at the front.
Blacks and whites had different carriages for trains to prevent people mixing. Segregation had affected a major part of black American lives, economically blacks faced poorer education. Many had little illieteracy. Statistics show that in 1930, 16. % blacks was illiterate and that 1. 8% whites were illiterate.
A example of poorer education, was that black and white children could not attend the same school in which led to blacks having little learning skills compared to whites. This led to black people suffering as because they had little learning knowledge in which could lead them to not getting a good job or even not having enough money to attend all blacks university. However even if they had a good job, economically blacks were disadvantaged as they were being payed less then a white mans wages. In 1950,blacks were being payed only $3,828 compared to whites being payed $7,057.This shows that the issue of injustice and prejudice was shown among whites to blacks. Because of the amount of money black Americans were earning, they couldn't afford themselves a decent housing or even in some cases, enough food.
However some blacks were migrating up north where they getting paid better although they had to live in inducstrial areas which could result them having higher health risks. There were a lot of black people which helped them stablise, however ghettos and slums were increasing rapidly. Shops, cafes and resturants made for blacks only was not as high standard and economically rich as a white only resturant.This led to very poor hygyine care in the cafes and resturants and could result in problems. Pollitically blacks faced the disadvantage of not being allowed to vote in which therefore didn't give them the choice of who they wanted to run there town or country in which they weren't allowed to have a black mayor.
The government wasn't a big help to blacks as not was being done to help blacks solve their problems. The government was giving very little money to black only schools to buy in resources for them and resulted for black only schools to have the right resources. Physically blacks faced disadvantages as they were out numbered by whites.Only a small percantage of blacks were living in America. People who worked for the government were mainly against blacks and did very little to help, for example the police or lawyers.
In which shows that there was no way of blacks winning equality. If a white man was murdered, the blame would go to a black man and he would be arrested. Many blacks faced the injustice. Also a gang called Ku klux klan, was a group of white people who would tortute blacks and terrorise them. They would racially abuse them,also in some cases the klans would lynch them in a act to make blacks scared.
They made blacks feel inferior and hated. In which resulted of many blacks being scared and frightened to face up to whites. As a conclusion blacks faced many problems, mainly because of the segregation it had leaded them leaving school illiterate, which caused them to get a poor paid job and resulted this for them,living in poor lifestyle or even poverty. This implicated them to higher crimes as a way of making money, blacks would have to steal in which to face their lifestyle problems.
Because of the little rights they had, many blacks could not resolve their problems and had to live in poverty.
