how were blacks treated in the U.S in 1955?
89096
They were treated less than human. They were subjected to all kinds of horrid research. Just look at what happened to the Tuskegee men that were allowed to die of syphillis for a medical study. They were subjected to segregation. I suggest that you do more research by perhaps going to a black church in your area and speaking to some of the elders. Many of them could tell you about what they experienced during childhood. Also, look up what happened in Tuskegee...it was horrendous.
603260
Horrible things were done both to Native Americans and Black people. Black people were kidnapped in the most horrible ways, separated from their land and family only to be treated like animals and be slaves. \nLike you said, Native Americans were treated horrible too. Not just by taking away their children. They were also killed by white people who came to the "New World". \nThis is not a competition. The pain and suffering that one group went through, does not belittle the pain and suffering the other group went through. Horrible things were done, and we should all be aware that horrible things are still being done all over the world to people, just because they belong to a certain ethnicity or religion. We should all practice tolerance. We should all do our best to make sure these kinds of things do not happen again.
316374
Xenogear is right. There was no one war that robbed blacks of their rights in this country... with the possible exception of the Revolutionary War. Black Americans were slightly better off under the British.\n\nWorld War I temporarily took many civil rights from blacks, but it did the same to everyone, and some were worse off than them in this respect (especially German Americans).
52894
No.\n\nAs of 2002, America was approximately 13% black.
114479
Yes to black sensitive. If African Americans want to be treated equal it should be all around, and go both ways.
828827
After the Civil war for a short period.\nThen poll taxes and literacy test were introduced in Southern states.  These worked to keep blacks from voting along with threats and acts of violence until the 1960 Civil rights act-when everyone was granted the right to vote, at east in theory.  There were only a few black voters  in Southern states until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which bared discrimination of all types based on race.  But the literacy test and poll taxes stayed in place until the National Voting Rights Act of 1965.  When they were mad entirely illegal.
798811
Laws that required Blacks to sit in the rear of the bus, use separate restrooms, school, etc., were unjust.  They violate the precepts of this country's founding documents.
1063775
that's a good question. its because the US government are scared to act. it would be call racism. blacks always complain about that there people where tortured and slaves... like they where the only one. Egypt enslaved hundreds of thousands of whites  for hundreds of years. Blacks where enslaved for like 100 years and they still complain.\nSISSYS.\nBlacks always say stuff like well i get put in jail for nothing. then later we find out he did do something wrong.     they need to take responsibility for there own actions\n\nP.S. Blacks choose not to get a bad education. they have all these excuses like they have less of a chance than us. they are just lazy. \nthey have the United Negro College Fund. what do whites have? nothing but smarts. that not our fault... I'm not saying that whites are all smart but you are wright about blacks having more rights. If whites made a United Caucasian Fund, the creators of it would be sued for racism.  ya that sounds real equal... NOT
563680
They didn't do a lot except give the blacks the right to vote, made them citizens and something else I don't know.\nIf I was you I will say that it didn't unify the culture using the following:\n1 The southerners had literacy tests and etc to keep black from voting. \n2 most of the blacks thus ended up becoming sharecroppers under white elites. See so no unification. \n3 Separate but equal segregation later on completely destroyed the meaning of these amendments by going around them and making blacks less equal. \nHope that helps.
265948
I am a white 39 year old woman and I could not agree with you more. Many black men and women gave their lives so that their children and grandchildren could grow up in a better America. I think that it is a sin the way that the black "gangsta" rap and the way that the African American communities believe that it's alright to degrade themselves. Afican Americans want respect and I believe that it is a God given right to be treated with respect and dignity, however, to me it doesn't seem like they respect themselves at all. I am not saying that anybody has to conform to the "white America" , many ethnic groups have their own traditions and I respect that-I mean this is America and diversity is one of the things that I believe make this a great nation. I, however, do believe that Dr. King and Ms. Parks would be appalled at what has become of their struggles to insure that all African Americans have equal rights and have the same opportunities that whites have. What ends up happening over time is that the black youth start to believe what they hear-that all women are ho's and all black men are considered cool if they have been in jail, and instead of this being something to be ashamed of, they consider it a "badge" of honor. I also believe that we as a nation have a very long way to go before EVERYONE is treated fairly with dignity and respect, but I truly believe that the degradation of black on black is not moving America forward, but just the opposite, it's setting us as a nation back.
259742
I could go on for hours but, until most people are educated in history, politics, respect and self worth. That goes for black, and any other race in this country. It's not so much that blacks should be upset with whites because our ancestors  bought them from their own people and now some want everything handed to them along with other financial reparations. It's that, if you look at factual history, all of us (every race) were slaves at one time to some great empire. Blacks were just the last! I do not think it is fair  that Americans should live in a fantasy world and show over 50% blacks in advertising campaigns, music, TV programing when they only make up for 16% of the US population of which that number actually about 11% due to incarceration.
492442
The same way the men were treated.  I don't think words can describe how atrociously they were treated.\nDidn't you learn about this in history class?
438939
We owe our country's success as a producing nation to the sweat of our early laborers.  Today, we still out-produce every country on most every good and service.  And blacks are still broke, sick, and under-represented.  We still haven't made reparations for what we owe.  They aren't blaming whites, they just want (and deserve) their money.
1026340
It will never be clean, because blacks won't let it. My grandfather came from Hungary, and my father was the first one born here. So I have absolutely no ties to what happened, yet I have to get glared at by blacks (as if I owe them a food stamp because I am white). The real kicker of it all is that if they would tap into their intelligence just a bit, they would realize the real focus needs to be on AFRICA. AFRICA sold these people to the Americans, AFRICA made a handsome profit from the slave trade. AFRICA pulled these people out of their homes to collect a commission. Slavery did not last long in America until the majority of the whites said, this is wrong!, and chose to fight... to the death.... to free them. Where was AFRICA when it was time to fight for their people?! AFRICA sold them, got rich from their misery, abandoned them, and did not fight for them. Thousands of white men fought and died for their freedom, I think the part of "penance" has been paid. America has bent over backwards catering to the blacks, bending the laws to accomodate them, making things like black radio stations (although white radio stations would be a hate crime), the black expo (although the white expo would be a hate crime), and banning the use of the N word (although if they could not call us honky or craker that would be depriving them of freedom of speech and expression). The white people have done more than enough to say sorry for what happened, but sorry is not what they want. They want to sap off of the misery that people suffered 200 years ago. It is too inspiring to be a victim. Being a normal person isnt fun, you have to work and you get no special breaks. I am glad that my roots are in Hungary, because I seriously doubt the Hungarians would tolerate this kind of ignorance that we are tolerating. Its time to ask AFRICA for some answers.
1076644
the only thing i can think of is the Jim Crow laws\n\nthese were a collection of laws that stopped black people  from doing a lot of things - although it referred more towards segregation and stuff like that.\n\nBut it could easily have been the vehicle barring blacks from voting because  it barred them from doing a lot of other things. The Jim Crow laws were deemed unconstitutional only in 1964.
481239
In the early years, 1 in 4 were black.
110593
Yeah treated like cattle. Checked for lice and other paracites. Some famliies where split up. Forced to change their names to sound more american. Depending on the era they have might have came off one boat and got on another to be shipped off to fight in the Civil War....stuff like that it was Sh***y!