Civil Rights Sources Questions

... History 1st Assignment Question 1 . Black Americans faced may areas of discrimination in the 1950's which affected many different parts of their lives and which were often linked together. The first kind of discrimination I want to talk about is Schools and Universities. Black Americans did not get the right education because of the Topeka board of education. They would not provide black Americans with decent school equipment so they could not fully do their education in school. This meant that other problems arose when the time come to get a job and certain other things they could not get. This had the following consequences; the black Americans could not get a job because of poor education. This also led to them not being able to vote because they had to take a literacy test to be able to vote. Another reason is that since they had a poor job they did

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