Vocabulary Summary

      When the African American slaves were set free in the Southern states, Americans didn't feel comfortable with all of them being near them. They felt like these slaves were inferior and that they shouldn't have the same rights as they did. For these reasons the Jim Crow laws were created. Their purpose was to keep African Americans and Americans completely separate. It was like they were living in two separate worlds.  It was supposed to use the concept of "separate but equal," but this didn't really happen. There was a lot of inequality. Inequality is not being treated the same as the others. This happened because African American's schools, restaurants, etc, were worse than the ones for Americans, so because of this between the 1950-60s there was a great civil rights movement that finally ended segregation.

     Segregation is the behavior of society dividing by skin color, age, nationality. A very serious case of segregation was in South Africa. This segregation was called the Apartheid. This was an official policy saying that white skin people and dark skin people had to be apart. It was very similar to the Jim Crow laws. This continued until Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa. He completely changed South Africa by ending the apartheid.
 
       Discrimination today forms a great part of our society. Before, there was a lot of discrimination because of racism. Racism is is the discrimination of a human being because of their skin color. Today there is still racism, but there are many other types of discrimination. On these days there is a lot of discrimination because of having a disability of any type, being a boy or a girl, or simply because of being different. Even though some types of discrimination have even sometimes been prohibited it will never be ceased.