BP #3 - Mini Research on HeLa themes

Segregation in America in the 1940s / 1950

 

            During the1940s and 1950s, many of the southern states of America were segregated. The reason that is "Jim Crow" laws permit segregation and racial discrimination. " Example of 'Jim Crow' laws"  adopt from "The Thoughtful Reader"by Mary C. Fjeldstad that defines " From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws. From Delaware to California, and from North Dakata to Teaxs, many states could impose legal punishments on people for associating with members of another race. The most common types of laws to forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white clientele separated." Such as blacks and whites have different restaurants, restrooms, hospitals, public transportation, and even drinking fountains.

            In the HeLa' story, Henrietta sent her daughter Elsie to the Grownsville State Hospital. The hospital was known as the hospital of blacks. In the period, segregation  provided obvious. for instance, the passenger stations had separate waiting room or space and separate ticket windows for the different race in the Alabama State. (The thoughtful reader by Mary C. Fjeldstad) In addition, the blacks used to sit  in the back of the bus, but the whites often sit in the front of bus. I had read a article about one white women sit wrong , nobody advice her to change seat. however, a black men sit wrong, someone gave a serious warning to him to sit in the back of the bus. Even though the Jim Crow said that all segregated places were " separate but equal," the segregation is no equal in fact.