Blacks discriminated agianst in America !

Up until the end of segregation they weren't allowed to use the same bathroom, drinking fountains, restaurants, anything, you name it. Schooling was a huge issue and for a long time blacks were given a really hard time during integration of schooling, especially in the south. After segregation was over up until now there is still that undercurrent of discrimination but its not as 'obvious'. We have the KKK and other such groups floating around. White supremacists. Think about why we need to have affirmative action and to say that we don't discriminate by race on job applications. Now because its very un-PC to be racist, its more difficult to spot, but its there.
They were excluded from many jobs, and white employers were very reluctant to hire black employees. Evenin times of emergency. for instance, during WW1, a lot of black nurses volunteered to go overseas and nurse the troops, but only two out of the hundreds who volunteered were allowed to go. Things hadn't got much better by the time of WW2, black women had extreme difficulty getting hired for war work for instance. The United Auto Workers surveyed 280 factories that employed women workers, and found that only 74 were willing to hire African Americans. White women often refused to work with black women. However, WW2 did see some breakthroughs for African Americans. Maya Angelou, after terrific persistence, managed to get a job as a streetcar conducotor, and in New York, in 1944, black women finall broke the colour barrier and got jobs as telephone operators.

In the south, transport, eating places, hospitals etc were segregated. In a terrible twist of irony, Dr Charles Drew, the black doctor who invented the blood bank, bled to death after an accident because there was no hospital near enough that he could be admitted to.

Segregationon transport was particularly insulting, the front seats in buses were reserved for white people, and if the bus was full, and a white person wanted a seat, a black passenger had to give up their seat no matter what their age or condition.

Schools were segregated, and when black students finally began to be admitted to white schools in the south, they were met with extreme abuse, threats and violence.

It IS getting better. The black people as a whole are finally just beginning to be considered as just...people. Like they should be. Just Americans.

"I have a Dream".

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.