Racial discrimination in USA back in history: The racial discrimination in the USA started already, when the United States of America was founded in the 1700s, and slaves from Africa were forced to work the land, -to do all the hard work in the fields and so on. But in 1804 most of the Northern states of America made the slavery illegal. The wished the Southern states to do the same, but they didn’t. But when the Northern states won the Civil War over the South, they banned slavery in 1865 all over the country.
The slavery stopped, but the racism didn’t!
And the separation didn’t stop here; schools were made – schools for the white children only and schools for black children only, they weren’t allowed to eat at the same restaurants, and to shop at the same stores. There were even black and white parts of towns and cities.
Martin Luther King: Martin Luther King leaded, and was a part of, a lot of marches, boycotts and “sit-ins” in the years 1960-1963 against the repression in the USA. But his work and boycotts were all non-violent, which was very important for King. He became the front figure in this fight for equal rights.
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