Racial Equality Was Practically Unheard Of In The 1950s And 1960s. Bigotry, Prej

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Term Paper Title	Racial Equality Was Practically Unheard Of In The 1950s And 1960s. Bigotry, Prej
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     Racial equality was practically unheard of in the 1950's and 1960's.  Bigotry, prejudice, and intolerance against African Americans were rampant. One man, John Howard Griffin, had the bravery to face the situation that was going on in the Deep South of the United States. He wrote about his escapades in a book titled Black like Me.  John Griffin was a white journalist who questioned "What is it like to experience discrimination, based on skin color, something over which one has no control?" (Griffin, 7).
      Although one has no control over their skin colour, one can control the way they look at and judge other people.  Even though this book was written in 1959, a lot of the morals, racial standards, and ethics it stresses still hold true today.  Colour, is just a simple skin pigmentation.  A person's skin colour does not make them a criminal, a liar, or a useless waste of humanity as commonly thought in the 1950's and 1960's.  Racial prejudice was just bigotry then, and racial prejudice is just bigotry without due cause now.  Many people did not believe that though.  As shown on page 127, many white Americans were very hesitant to have anything to do with Negroes.  The two women who were looking for a seat on the bus did not want to sit by the black man and by the black woman.  As the bus driver states, on the same page, "They don't want to sit with you people, don't you know that? They don't want to.  Isn't that plain enough?"
     The white American, for the most part, despised the Negro.  He treated the black people like pests, and tired his hardest to keep them from making any advances in society.  "..We don't want you people. Don't you understand that?" (Griffin, 100).  The white man gave the Negroes the jobs that no white man would want, and even those despicable jobs were hard to come by.  John Griffin questions on page 100, after hearing that the blacks will be getting the worst jobs at a certain plant, "How can we live?" He is answered with a non-chalant reply, "That's the whole point.  We're trying our damndest to drive every one of you out of the state."
     There were many misconceptions about the Negro by white people.  They stereotyped all black people as having no sexual morals, being irresponsible, having a much lesser intelligence, and whites thought that Negroes were happy with the prejudicial situation they were in.   Black people stereotyped whites too, though.  To blacks, all white people didn't have a care in the world and whites didn't work ...

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