How Blacks were treated in the North & South in the 1940's.
The blacks were treated poorly in the south they were falsely accused of things they hardly ever did. In the north they were treated better; They were given better medical care and were allowed to have churches, but they where still poorly treated. In the 1940's blacks were not considered equal to whites in the North or the South. They had to enter through the back door's of establishments & they could not go into the same store as whites.
Blacks had to say "yes sir" & "no sir". Blacks also had to do what a white man had asked /demanded him to do. All Blacks were treated the same as other blacks they had their own school, church and stores. White people who owned a store didn't have to let them into the store or sell them food. White people thought that they were at the top of the "race list" when really they had the stupid the idea that the blacks treated their own race and other races better than whites did. Some whites thought that just because you were nice to black people they were worse than a black person themselves. Also if a white girl even one who never had company had even tried to have anything to do with a black man then they where below pond scum.
The black children where teased and mocked, and if they where a mixed child then they where pitied and at the same time they where criticized and picked on by both races. Blacks had no hope in the town where they lived. No hope of getting a good education, which meant a bad job that meant they had a worse life for their kids and family.
In 1948 Harry Truman passed a law "that provided for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin." This was suppose to keep segregation out of the military. But after World War 1&2 some southerners thought that the blacks needed beat down even thought they wore the same uniform and shed their blood for the same country.
