Category Archives: Week 5: Civil Rights

All the racial discrimination was not just in the South, it was pretty much everywhere. According to Theoharris, New York still had segregated schools. Also in the article, it says that they were trying to fix the problem in the South and not in their own town. Which I think is hypocritical because if youContinue reading “Civil Rights”

The struggle for civil rights in New York City and Boston challenges the traditional Civil Rights Movement narrative by highlighting the challenges almost identical to those in the South that were faced by northern African Americans. Clearly, segregation was not simply a regional problem—if it was, there would not have been the intense and drawn-outContinue reading “Coded Language and Double Standards”

Despite much of the civil rights movement’s history being centered around the South, there were still many struggles seen in the North, in cities such as New York City and Boston. In the North, racial discrimination was much less direct and explicit, but no less institutional. For example, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), aContinue reading “The North and its Covert Segregation”

Historically, there were Civil Rights Movement activists in the north that fought for the same equality that colored people in the south wanted, but today only the southern activist struggles are remembered and praised. This is due to people in the north (and other parts of the country) wanting to get rid of segregation inContinue reading “Segregation in the North? No, Only seen in the south”

The New York civil rights struggle and Boston schools challenge the view of their being by showing the discrimination that is happening in the schools and the treatment they are getting to get hired. “ There were only 2 bathrooms for sixteen hundred kids” Adian Back.  They could not  flush the bathroom which led theContinue reading “segregation”

ABB There were people, mostly Black, advocating for their rights against segregation. It was a national problem. Some Northern whites seemed supportive of this movement until it came to their own backyards, this revealed their true nature and hypocrisy. They wanted to believe that it was a regional problem of the South. They had twoContinue reading “Segregation: A National or Regional Problem? Who Decides?”

The most significant civil rights protest of the 1960s occurred in New City against the Board of Education’s refusal to make a plan for comprehensive de-segregation of schools. Protests like these were held in northern cities as many of the same problems, such as segregation, job exclusion, police brutality, and criminalization, existed in Northern citiesContinue reading “Prejudice and Segregation: Differences in Northern and Southern states”

The Long Movement Outside the South by Jeanne Theoharis tells the story that racism was not just a problem in the South, but it also was a bigger problem than most people thought in the North. Many people think of the Civil Rights Movement as something that mainly happened in places like Alabama and Mississippi,Continue reading “Racism in the Civil Rights Movement”

To help explain the title of this blog and for fun I wrote the chorus to mimic the song of the south by Alabama. For your reading pleasure: Song, song of the North. Eat a pizza pie with all its warmth. Seeeegggrigating our schools. Because we are overt racist ghouls. Now to the serious stuff.Continue reading “SONG, SONG OF THE NORTH!”

America’s troubled past with racism is more widespread and systemic than a lot of people tend to think In Theoharris’ chapter on the 1960’s New York school system riots, she dives into the history present but often overlooked of racism in the North rather than just the South. The struggles prevalent in New York andContinue reading “America’s Rotted Roots; Racism in the 20th Century and Before”