describe the conditions of the african-americans in usa prior to 1950.
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Information About African Americans in the 1950s
As the 1950s began. segregationist policies in many sections of the United States still denied
equal rights to most African Americans. The "separate but equal" doctrine, which had been
the law since the 1890s, forced blacks throughout the South to use separate public bathrooms,
water fountains, restaurants. hotels, and schools. These separate facilities were generally
much inferior to facilities for whites. African Americans attended run-down schools; lived in
poor, decaying neighborhoods; and worked at low-skill, low-paying jobs. Even in the North,
where segregation was illegal, many schools were not integrated, and blacks suffered from
discrimination in housing and job opportunities. These circumstances led to the civil rights
movement that burgeoned in the 1950s and came to full force in the 1960s.
In 1954, partly as the result of black activism, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a severe blow to
segregation. The court unanimously struck down the law that had permitted segregation in
schools and other facilities. In its landmark decision in Broww v. Board of Education, the
court ruled that the separation of schoolcMldren "generates a feeling of inferiority that may
affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone." However, even after the
court ordered that school segregation be dismantled, many city and state oft7cials ignored
the ding and refused to integrate their schools. The federal government tried to enforce
the court's ruling, but some communities put up stiff resistance. Battles over school
P desegregation raged across the South throughout the 1950s.