Prior Settings
America had long held onto their beliefs in white supremacy. Those feeling extended far beyond that of discrimination against blacks. They were felt throughout the nation by other minority groups.
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Mexican Americans
"Anglo-Americans began extending segregation to Mexican Americans after the Texas
Revolution as a social custom."
Arnoldo De León and Robert A. Calvert, "SEGREGATION," Handbook of Texas Online , June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
"Anglo-Americans began extending segregation to Mexican Americans after the Texas
Revolution as a social custom."
Arnoldo De León and Robert A. Calvert, "SEGREGATION," Handbook of Texas Online , June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Native Americans
"... we are on the eve of leaving that country that gave us birth, it is with sorrow
we are forced by the white man to quit the scenes of our childhood...we bid
farewell to it and all we hold dear." - Charles Hicks, Tsalagi (Cherokee) Vice
Chief speaking of the Trail of Tears, November 4, 1838
"... we are on the eve of leaving that country that gave us birth, it is with sorrow
we are forced by the white man to quit the scenes of our childhood...we bid
farewell to it and all we hold dear." - Charles Hicks, Tsalagi (Cherokee) Vice
Chief speaking of the Trail of Tears, November 4, 1838
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Immigrants
"...in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of
Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities
within the territory thereof."
Chinese Exclusion Act, Preamble, May 6, 1882
"...in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of
Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities
within the territory thereof."
Chinese Exclusion Act, Preamble, May 6, 1882
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African Americans
"[I]f you don't make enough to have some left you ain't done nothin, except given the other fellow your labor. That crop out there goin' to prosper enough for him to get his and get what I owe him; he's making his profit but he ain't going to let me rise…. The white man g'tting' all he lookin' for, all he put out in the spring, g'tting' it all back in the fall. But what am I g'tting' for my labor? I ain't g'tting' nothin'."
Ned Cobb, a black Alabama sharecropper, Theodore Rosengarten, All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (New York, 1974), 108
"[I]f you don't make enough to have some left you ain't done nothin, except given the other fellow your labor. That crop out there goin' to prosper enough for him to get his and get what I owe him; he's making his profit but he ain't going to let me rise…. The white man g'tting' all he lookin' for, all he put out in the spring, g'tting' it all back in the fall. But what am I g'tting' for my labor? I ain't g'tting' nothin'."
Ned Cobb, a black Alabama sharecropper, Theodore Rosengarten, All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (New York, 1974), 108