Discrimination in the United States

Discrimination in the United States

Introduction

Discrimination is widespread across the US history. Despite, discrimination is prohibited in the federal law on the basis of national origin, race, color, religion, disability, gender and family status of a person. The laws prohibited national origin bias makes it illegitimate to discriminate against a person because of birthplace, ancestry, culture or language. This refers that individuals cannot be denied equal opportunity because they or their ancestors are came from another country, as they have a family name or belongingness to a group of true national origin accent, because they participate in certain customs associated with a group of a certain national origin or because they are related or married to someone of a certain national origin (Bonilla-Silva, 2013).

This paper illustrates the state of discrimination in the United States by outlining several examples of prejudices based on age, gender, color, ethnicity, race and other factors. The focus of this paper is on the vital and noteworthy example of the March on Washington during the civil rights movement.

Discussion

Discrimination is the separation of different groups of people in daily life, as in restaurants, theaters, restrooms, schools and residential areas. In the United States, discrimination is meant to the physical separation for people of color, age, ethnicity and gender that were discriminated against for many years.

In 1963, not all Americans have the same rights, a reality that existed since the beginning of this country. While discrimination against blacks in the United States emerged from the founding of the 13 colonies, when slavery was at its peak, racial conflict escalated at the end of the Civil War of 1861-1865, which was abolished slavery by winning the North, when the government led by Abraham Lincoln decreed the freedom of slaves. However, discrimination and inequality persisted. Blacks were free, but not equal rights to other U.S. citizens (Puhl & Heuer, 2011).

Given the resentment of their defeat, the southern states in the U.S. that were against the abolition of slavery, wrote a series of laws that although they could not take away the rights of people of color, they used the concept of "Separated but Equal" (separate but equal).

Racial segregation is the separation of different racial groups in daily life, in public places such as restaurants, cinemas, toilets, schools and residential areas, Enacted in 1876 Jim Crow laws denied the right to vote for blacks, impose a number of requirements such as literacy, in addition to possessions and pay a poll tax.

So during the nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth were all types of premises where entry is prohibited to citizens and local color reserved exclusively for African Americans, with the system of "apartheid" in which more than 13 million black They were forced to live apart from the rest of society.

Under these circumstances, the end of the first half of the twentieth century, there were civil rights activists who fought for equality. A clear example is the May 17, 1954, the ...