Life-In-Segregation

//** LIFE IN SEGREGATION﻿ **//



//** Segregation is the worst thing that ever happened to the African Americans. **// //** It started after the Civil War **// //** The whites thought they were the best of all races. **// //** No other race was best to the whites. **// //** But one thing that was horrible is that the blacks were not giving them a job. **// //** If the blacks were given any kind of job, it was a job the whites didn't want such as **// //** cleaning toilets. **//

//** PEOPLE **//

//** Jackie Robinson- Negro Baseball Player. He moved up the ranks and finally broke line of the two leagues which is now the MLB **// //** Martin Luther King Jr.- a man who was a peace,and loving man who wanted to stop the difference between blacks and whites. **// //** Malcolm X- a man who wanted rid of segregation but used violence. **//

BIG EVENTS Big Events in segregation were... Rosa Parks not giving up her seat on the bus for a white 1945- Jackie Robinson broke the boundary of the white and black Baseball leagues 1966- the Black Panthers are established 1968- MLK Jr. is assassinated 2009- Barack Obama was elected president