Photos: Segregation in America

To the last comment. I don't know what color you are, but you sound like a young person. You need to go back to history. The equality is always there, you might not see it, but it is there. We learn to ignore certain things as we grow up, however it comes a point in your life that that you can't ignore the equality. I see the equality in color, general nationality. I see it in schools and neighborhood. I came from a multicultural community, however the equality was there. We are all Americans without colors or bounderies, we still have a lot of grounds to cover. We need to teach our young children not to know the difference between brown, yellow and black. God made all of us the same. We look different but we are the same. We are giving our young children the wrong message and it starts with the first education which is the home. Parents need to change so the children can learn to be human and colors. Let's worry about global warming, soon will not have a earth to live on, no matter our colors or race.

"White achievement month!" What do you thnk every other month out of the year is.? All children are taught are the achievements of white people until those months that are set aside for those who are of color. Everyone is not equal in America yet and it is those like you who pretend it is that let the truly dangerous and racist people out there get away with their evil hatred and toxin in today's society.

"sh1t skins" really? the people who are saying these racist comments clearly have NOTHING going on in their lives, with the time spent on racist tirades from the safety of their computer screens. at least MLK had the courage to go out and fight for something he believed in, regardless of the consequences.

This just brought tears to my eyes...Its to bad that people still to this day can be so shallow minded and think they are above someone else.We are all equal we all breathe the same air and we all bleed the same color so the color of a persons skin should not determine where they can and cannot go. I have been known that when filling out an application for employment where it asks RACE...well i have always responded HUMAN because there is only one race... THE HUMAN RACE god bless

It is sad that there are those that choose to ignore that spiritually we are all ONE. They perpetrate hate and separation instead of the lessons that ALL the holy books teach us which is to LOVE one another. May we all come to recognize our ONENESS. If we want this world to survive into the future we WILL need to work together not apart.

It is so sad to think that there are those that cannot see that we are all One and the same Spiritually, that the Good Books of all religions tell us to Love ourselves and yet there are those that will perpetrate hate and separation. May we all come to recognize our One-ness.

Sometimes I forget how recent these events happened. It almost appears to be untrue that people would actually go such extents just to prove their point. The world, especially America, has been founded on a very wrong and biased foundation. It is my opinion that it will take a long time for total healing and acceptance to come. Thank God for men like Mr King who started that process.

Your gallery is all fine well and good, but you failed to illustrate the many, many black men who sat and still sit in prison innocent of any wrongdoing ... some on death row. You failed to illustrate overt racism is still alive and well in the justice system, our neighborhoods and schools. Life is NOT rosy today as compared to the lynch picture you showed. Whites (Jena 6 and the rash of copycats) illustrate that the NOOSE is still being used today to intimidate black people. An appropriate picture behind the lynch picture would have been the symbolic noose used on the black kids who just wanted to sit under a damn tree.

I am glad that black people were brave enough to speak out for their rights.

Martin Luther King JR was an incredible man.

We all deserve equal and fair opportunities. I am a white girl raised in an 98 percent black community, and my childhood was great considering the fact my parents have been divorced since I was three. I was born in Cleveland,TN and raised in Chattanooga,TN. I think people can be whatever they want to be reguardless of skin. We all bleed the same, hurt the same, cry and laugh the same. I am grateful for the life I had, and continue to have. My best friend in the entire world is a black male. We have been best friends my entire life, and no one or nothing will change it.

A moment of silence for a great man!

I thank Dr. king and his family for all that they did for this country and our race. He will always be remebered as one of my greatest heros. GOD bless Him forever !!!

The most disturbing picture to me is the one with the church. I walked into a churches in nashville Tenn. in 2003 the congragations were either white or black. I found this also boring. Now it is up to us why do we choose to do this?... I guess living in the Northeast i am used to a colorful palet at church, work and everywhere I go. Thank the Lord that he will not tolerate this evil. Dr king was very brave and passionate to say the least. I pledge my aliegence to his cause. The Lord works on all of our predjuduces if we let him. Lord continue your great work.........

Ignorance is the root of the problem.

Well, here in Mississippi in A SMALL NUMBER of schools, the prom is still segregated. Black boys who dare to date white girls are still getting lynched in rural areas of the state.

Well, here in Mississippi in A SMALL NUMBER of schools, the prom is still segregrated.

What a heart-wrenching display of the constant struggle that Americans face. It's amazing that so much progress has been amde, yet so much more is needed. I work as an administrator in an elementary school in Polk County Florida. Although I'm in an administrative position, I still don't have any say in the fact that the principal refuses to even give Black applicants a chance to teach at our school and the aggregious way that he has tracked elementary students by having "white only" classes. The powers that be don't monitor this and anyone who speaks out is in jeopardy of losing thier job. We still fall very short of realizing the dream.