1. How did segregation and discrimination affect southern blacks in the 1950s?

We have to start from the beginning. After slavery was abolished blacks were still very much the “undesired” group. 1870’s, Jim Crow laws were placed to keep the blacks and whites from every using the same things ex, doors, water fountains, etc. It never stopped until 1964, when black civil rights activist came to play and demanded equality.

In the south even after segregation ended, blacks were still treated unfair and many laws were put in place to like red lining or map zoning to keep the blacks and whites separated, Wether it be a house or a job. The 1950s were no better. They were more radical and more racist hate crime is practically allowed or dismissed due to a stigma. Life was hard but those blacks who lived through it worked hard to keep going.