What was life like for blacks in America 1960?

Answer 1

Because of their skin color and a law called the Jim Crow laws, blacks were told they were inferior to the whites in all ways, including intelligence, morality, and civilized behavior.

During this period of time the blacks were separated from the whites, in buses, restaurants, waiting rooms, jobs and more.

In other words they were treated almost as "slaves", whites were allowed to lynch them (burn them alive, or hang them in front of the public).

Answer 2

The statistics were grim for black Americans in 1960. Their average life-span was seven years less than white Americans'. Their children had only half the chance of completing high school, only a third the chance of completing college, and a third the chance of entering a profession when they grew up. On average, black Americans earned half as much as white Americans and were twice as likely to be unemployed.

Answer 3

In 1959 the Supreme Court decision for Louise Brown came down against school discrimination, but that didn't stop it. Louise was allowed into the all white school, but she was yelled at as she entered the school each day, put in a room alone, and kept segraded from the rest of her class. Other African American children also found themselves on busses within the next few years as court orders came to integrate the schools. Higher education also saw students refused admission to programs and state colleges. The white school systems to reduce the numbers of African American students entering the schools came up with the idea of school vouchers. Vouchers would be issued to well off white students to attend a particular school. The integration of the schools has been a long and hard battle and still is not really over. There are forces in the country that would like to return to 60 years ago and the way things were once were.

Answer 4

not very good at all

Answer 5

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