Question

Differnciate between public facilities now and then.

Answer 1

Public facilities are defined as institutional responses to basic human needs, such as health, education, safety, recreation, and worship. Examples of typical public facilities include churches, hospitals, and police stations.   during that time public were not getting these many facilities--  public facilities now  Schools. - We like lots of smart people. And parents like the free childcare and education.  Hospitals - Universal healthcare has been normal since the 1930’s. Very popular with sick people.  Roads - very popular with people. Very useful from getting from A to B. Funded by petrol taxes.  Railways - built with public money, used to transport people in Auckland and Wellington. Was sold of in the 1990’s and then purchased back again.  Libraries, and Parks and forests - very popular places, Funded by Central Government and local government.  Prisons - not popular with their residents (sad fact, for many female prisoners it is the first place where they are locked in a cell and are safe for a few hours). Quite popular with the public - so long as they don’t have to live there.  public facilities then Segregation in Transportation Segregation in Movie Theatres Segregation in Bathrooms Movies were one of the only sources of entertainment in the Great Depression, and these were also segregated African Americans were required to sit on balconies or in separate areas to even be allowed to see the movie.  •Trains: separate waiting rooms and entrances; dirty & small in comparison  •Buses: Forced sit in the back of the bus- if there was room & had to give up their seat if a white person needed it  •Cars: Blacks could own cars but highway laws that affected them  - Black and white restrooms were segregated from one another.  - Signs hung from the tops of the doors reading "colored" and "whites".  -The restrooms were believed to just be "separate but equal" though this was not true. Some colored bathrooms would be unkept and unsanitary while the white bathrooms would be clean