Kunne vært morsomt å grave i hvor disse får sine midler og hvilke mennesker som driver dette...
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De eneste som var imot den nye innvandringsloven var demokratene i sørstatene, som visste at deres livsstil ville være over om de ble oversvømt av mennesker fra den tredje verden."

Ja, det ville jo vært trist om Jim Crow-lovene skulle bli borte, at fargede skulle få sitte på bussen, og gud forby, få ta høyere utdanning på hvilket som helst universitet!
"In the 1960s, people identified as "colored" in the United States—primarily African Americans—faced widespread and systemic discrimination rooted in the legacy of Jim Crow laws, which mandated racial segregation in nearly every aspect of public life. These laws, which had been systematically enforced in the South since the 1890s, persisted into the 1960s, resulting in the segregation of public facilities such as water fountains, restaurants, theaters, restrooms, stores, buses, and trains, each marked with "White Only" and "Colored" signs. This institutionalized segregation denied African Americans equal access to housing, quality education, employment opportunities, and basic amenities, relegating them to second-class citizenship.
Despite the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which declared that "separate but equal" educational facilities were inherently unequal, enforcement of desegregation remained slow and met with fierce resistance. The 1960s saw a surge in civil rights activism, including student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters and freedom rides organized by groups like the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which aimed to challenge segregation on interstate transportation. These efforts often provoked violent backlash, with freedom riders being attacked by mobs, their buses burned, and many arrested, with the violence frequently broadcast on television, exposing the brutality of racial hatred to a national audience.
Discrimination extended beyond public spaces into housing and employment. African Americans were often denied housing in white neighborhoods through restrictive covenants and redlining practices, and many faced hostility when attempting to rent or buy property, as illustrated by the experience of a foreign researcher in Princeton, New Jersey, who was denied a rental apartment after the landlord learned he would be living with his family, despite having a full month’s rent in advance. Even in the North, where overt segregation was less legally codified, racial prejudice remained deeply ingrained and manifested in subtle but pervasive ways, such as housing discrimination and social exclusion.
The term "colored," once used as a neutral descriptor in the 19th and early 20th centuries, had become increasingly associated with the oppressive Jim Crow system and was gradually replaced by "Black" and "African American" during the civil rights movement as a symbol of pride and resistance. Nevertheless, the term persisted in official contexts, such as the name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), though it was recognized as outdated and no longer reflective of the community’s self-identification. The struggle for civil rights in the 1960s culminated in landmark legislation like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, marking a turning point in the fight against institutionalized racism.
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