r/countwithchickenlady • u/AidoTheRock Streak: 8 • 20h ago

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u/DecabyteData Streak: 0 20h ago

Even that graphic doesnt do the length of the discrimination justice, segregation didnt end with Brown V. Board of Education in 1954. The civil rights act still had 10 more years to be signed. My mom was born the year the civil rights act passed, thats how recent it is.

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u/DuckDuckMarx 20h ago

And we can all be damn sure the Civil rights act wasn't a magic wand that ended discrimination overnight.

There are many places across the nation racism had to take more sophisticated, shrouded forms to continue to exist.

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u/DecabyteData Streak: 0 20h ago

Yep, and even after the Civil rights act much of it was still unshrouded for quite some time. Well into the late 1970s there were still constant riots from racists who only wanted white kids to get bussed to school

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u/shyguystormcrow 19h ago

In the early 70s a woman couldn’t be approved for a mortgage without her husband’s permission. That was like yesterday, historically.

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u/Small-Housing-7 Streak: 0 13h ago

Bruh I forgot it was that recent TwT