Black Americans and Affirmative Action

economic status to a large extent cause and interact with other status features to maintain overall black-white differences in status (National Research Council 1992). Yet the status of blacks is determined by the presence of both racial stratification and class, their position in social-economic structure of society. The long history of discrimination and segregation produced among blacks strong sense of group consciousness.
             Not only Blacks Americans had unequal economic status among white society; they also were denied equal educational opportunities. Black children were not allowed to go to school with white children, they also where declined college entry on a same level as white kids. The greatest achievements of the civil rights movement include Brown v. Board of Education, in which educational segregation was declared unconstitutional and gave opportunity for blacks to attend same schools as white people do. Today problem with racial discrimination have very strong effect on lives of blacks Americans in American society. Blacks face many problems like, poverty, affirmative action
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