between the whites and the black-americans. Both of them have different places and, of course, different facilities.Black people are living as second class citizen and they are
oppressed by the existence of regulations that limit their access to public area. They lived separately with white people even though they lived together in one city.
The novel shows that segregation resulted from the fact that black Americans resided in distinct neighborhoods, stemming from insufficient income as well as a desire to live
among their own people, as many ethnic groups did. However, blacks separated themselves not merely as a matter of choice or custom. Instead, realtors and landlords steered blacks
away from white neighborhoods and municipal ordinances and judicially enforced racial covenants signed by home owners kept blacks out of white areas.
Most of the blacks live in the bad part of town, or the slums. Even if they had the money, they wouldnt have been able to live in an upper class neighborhood like Jackson.
Blacks are considered dirty and unsanitary therefore, people didnt want them next to their houses. Residential segregation by race remains a salient feature of contemporary American
cities. Indeed, black Americans were as segregated from whites in 1990 as they had been at the start of the twentieth century, and levels of segregation appear unaffected by rising
socioeconomic status Massey Denton, 1993.
4.1.2 Segregation in Public School
Segregation has been prohibited in the United States since the mid-1960s . All over America there seems to be painfully obvious difference in the school systems which cater to
the upper class minority and the ones that serve the lower and middle class minority. Americas school systems seem to be returning to their former state of segregation. The
population of minorities who live in the United States is constantly increasing and their numbers can contribute to the success or the failure of the nation.
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Public schools are just one of the many public places which are segregated. The conditions of African-American schools were worse than white schools. They were usually
run-down, one-room buildings with no air condition or heating, no water, and no electricity. There were few teachers, few books, and few supplies. There are some special ways or
institutions which provide the education for white people and black people There are some special ways or institutions which provide the education for white people
and black people. But, the education for the white is not the same with the education for the black. The black will be never allowed to enter the white schools.
This unfair condition is explained by the following quotation:
But Miss Hilly shaking her head. “Aibileen, you wouldn’t want to go to a school full of white people, would you?”
My heart beating hard. And I say polite as I can, “Not a school full a just white people. But where the colored and the white folks is together.”
“Hilly and Miss Leefolt both look at me. I look back down at the kid. But Aibileen – Miss Hilly smile—“colored people and white people are just so.....different.” She
wrinkle up her nose. I feel my lip curling. A course we different Everybody know colored people and
white people ain’t the same. But we still just people Shoot, I even been hearing Jesus had colored skin living out there in the desert. I press my lips together.
Stockett, 2009: 186
The quotation above is the conversation between Hilly and Miss Leefolt. They are arguing that the black people and white should get education in separate way because they
are different. Because of the little number of black schools, there are only little black people who have good education. Whereas the white has some schools more and better then the
black’s. It means that there is no equality in getting education for the white and the black people
This is in reference to the segregation of regular, honors, or advanced placement classes where whites represent the majority of “high-level” classes where as blacks represent the
majority of the “lower-level” classes. The division of schools according to the race of the students is one kind of segregation in
education. In more critical condition, the people can be segregated in getting their right to
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education and training for racial reasons, whereas education is regarded as right of all people without any exception, even for the racial causes.
4.1.3 Segregation in Public Transportation
