Segregation

4 I know what segregation means. I can teach it to someone by giving examples & evidence.3 I understand what segregation means & can give several examples.2 I know a little bit about segregation but I can’t give any examples.1 I’ve heard the word segregation.0 I’ve never heard of the word segregation.

Segregation

1. Segregation is fair.Agree or disagree?

2. The United States had laws that made segregation legal.Agree or disagree?

3. Segregation only happened in the southern part of the United States.Agree or disagree?

4. The elementary schools in Bloomington were segregated.Agree or disagree?

5. African American students and white students received the same quality of education in Bloomington.Agree or disagree?

Imagine Bloomington in the time when your grandparents were children.

The date is 1950.

What common themes do you notice in each of these stories?

The star of the IU football team is African American and wants to eat at the Gables. A picture of him hangs on the wall in the restaurant but he is not allowed to eat there.

Pleasant Evans is an African American who owns a barber shop on Kirkwood. He is known as the “Dean of Bloomington Barbers” and yet his own friends and neighbors are not allowed in his shop. Instead he cuts their hair in his garage.

A couple of African American kids arrive early at the movie theater to get the best seat but they are only allowed to sit in the balcony.

An African American mom takes her child to a store downtown to get new shoes. The little girl is not allowed to try on the shoes. She gets home and they don’t fit, but she is not allowed to return them.

What do these scenarios have in common?

What ideas or feelings do you have about them?

Segregation means people are treated differently depending on the color of their skin.

“Separate but equal.”

Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law that justified systems of segregation. Under this doctrine, services, facilities and public accommodations were allowed to be separated by race, on the condition that the quality of each group's public facilities was to remain equal. The phrase was derived from a Louisiana law of 1890. (Wikipedia)

He was the top rusher and lead IU to it’s only undefeated Big 10 championship.In 1947 ,with the help if IU president Herman B. Wells, Talliaferro convinced the owner of the Gables to allow him and his date to dine there.

Talliaferro and his date dined there

every day for a week. They were soon followed by several other couples. http://www.indiana.edu/~radiotv/wtiu/legends/episodes/taliaferro/timeline/index.html

George Talliaferro was the first African American to play on the IU football team and the first to be drafted by the NFL.

Pleasant Evans was a barber on Kirkwood for 60 years. His wife was a teacher in town. In 1914 he purchased his own building just west of the square and was the first African American to own a building in downtown Bloomington.

After The Gables decided to integrate, the Indiana Theatre and the Book Nook soon followed.

1. Segregation is fair.Agree or disagree?

2. The United States had laws that made segregation legal.Agree or disagree?

3. Segregation only happened in the southern part of the United States.Agree or disagree?

4. The elementary schools in Bloomington were segregated?Agree or disagree?

5. African American students and white students received the same quality of education in Bloomington.Agree or disagree?

Have your ideas about segregation changed? What evidence do you have to support your ideas?

4 I know what segregation means. I can teach it to someone by giving examples & evidence.3 I understand what segregation means & can give several examples.2 I know a little bit about segregation but I can’t give any examples.1 I’ve heard the word segregation.0 I’ve never heard of the word segregation.

Segregation

Were schools in Bloomington “separate but equal”?