Ruby Bridges was one of those African Americans who was oppressed. One way was the entrance exam they mad it really hard so black children would fail. She and four other girls passed out 100. She was accepted to one of the integrated school named William Franz School the other girls went to McDonogh No.19 another integrated school.The first day of school was easy for ruby. She and her mother sat in an office till 3:00 PM.
On the second day everything changed for the worse the crowd increased they screamed vile things. They threatened her with scare tactics such as saying they will strangle her or poison her food. Ruby only got scared when they put a black doll in a coffin and had a sign saying thank god for legislation. in the first week whites attacked blacks in day light and ruby would only eat packaged food. She hid all here home made food after the treats.
Rubies dad got fired from his job. The owner said "he cant have an employee who has a black daughter going to a white school". The KKK burned crosses on there lawn. They threw rocks through windows. In the end ruby held on through the bad times and helped more schools become integrated.
Another example of a group that was oppressed were the Japanese Americans. On December 7,1941 japan bombed pearl harbor. After the bombing America was afraid that anyone with Japanese ancestry would support there country. There were two things the U.S. did one was a curfew for Japanese Americans to be off the streets by 8:00 PM. the next act was sending them to interment camps.
The interment camps were in Tule lake concentration camp in California behind barbed wire and fences. Children were tagged with detention tags. Japanese Americans had to line up when they got there and were searched. Japanese had to line up in the mess hall for food, you shared over crowded barracks. And if you were 12 years or older you were photo graphed and fingerprinted like a criminal. Some were even sent to jail with street walkers, petty thieves, and embezzlers.
Literature shows how cruelly people treated each other and it still does from the past to this day.
