Segregation in American History

[Plunge]

So last night, my daughter and I were watching Remember the Titans. It got to the scene where the players are back from camp and it is the first day of school. Outside the school are massive protests against the bussing of the black students. After explaining the basics of segregation to my daughter, she asked a question that I've never thought about.

"Dad, where would I have gone to school back then?"

I'd never thought of that. I've never thought of how Asians were treated in that era and I'm not old enough to remember any of that. While it sparked a wonderful discussion with my daughter about racial discrimination, I didn't have an answer for her original question.

Does anyone here have an answer?

[amjezioro]

So last night, my daughter and I were watching Remember the Titans. It got to the scene where the players are back from camp and it is the first day of school. Outside the school are massive protests against the bussing of the black students. After explaining the basics of segregation to my daughter, she asked a question that I've never thought about.

"Dad, where would I have gone to school back then?"

I'd never thought of that. I've never thought of how Asians were treated in that era and I'm not old enough to remember any of that. While it sparked a wonderful discussion with my daughter about racial discrimination, I didn't have an answer for her original question.

Does anyone here have an answer?
that is a really good question that I had never thought of- Bonus to your daughter! I don't have an answer- but I will see what I can find out

[ShinyTop]

I was in school in Pensacola when schools there integrated. Asians were already in our schools. Not a thought to that constituting integration. Earlier when in Peoria, Il all schools were integrated already.

[RetFireCapt]

Well Mr Plunge, I know my parents' high school, which was Inglewood High in LA County, had no segregation of Asians as far back as I can see in the annuals daing back into the 30's. There was a culling out of the Japanese during the war though. I remember my Dad telling me about the "no niggers past sunset" law in Inglewood during his childhood. That's what it was known as. He never mentioned anything like that affecting Asians, and Inglewood and surrounding areas had many thousands of Japanese.

[Plunge]

Thanks so much for the replies! Learning a little bit of history today.

[Coot]

In rural South Dakota, our little town had a big fight on its hands. We had a couple of Sioux families living off the reservation amongst us. The federal government, the BIA to be specific, was hellbent on sending these kids to either the reservation school or bussing them all the way to the other side of Rapid City to the Air Force Base for school. As I recall, some agreement was made between the town, the county and the BIA to reimburse the federal government for the federally provided education these kids weren't taking advantage of by staying with their community to go to school.

[ShinyTop]

Anybody who has ever lived in a military town knows that at the beginning of the school year all students who have a parent working for the military or in the military have to fill out a form so the local schools can get reimbursed for the federal impact. I don't remember if native Americans were filling out the forms or not.

[ethics]

Asians, Jews, Italians, etc... were all integrated here in NYC. And by that I mean attend the same school. They did have their cliques, gangs, clubs, and spent more of their time in their own groups rather than mix among others. It was safer that way.

[Piobaireachd]

So last night, my daughter and I were watching Remember the Titans. It got to the scene where the players are back from camp and it is the first day of school. Outside the school are massive protests against the bussing of the black students. After explaining the basics of segregation to my daughter, she asked a question that I've never thought about.

"Dad, where would I have gone to school back then?"

I'd never thought of that. I've never thought of how Asians were treated in that era and I'm not old enough to remember any of that. While it sparked a wonderful discussion with my daughter about racial discrimination, I didn't have an answer for her original question.

Does anyone here have an answer?
Good question!

I went to HS in a dinky little town in Wisconsin. We were 99.99% White (Mostly Norwegian, Swede, or German ancestry). We had several Vietnamese families that were settled in the area when they were sent to the states in a refugee status. I know they had kids, but they didn't go to school with us. I don't know where they went.

Most of the parents were employed by Ortega (making taco shells) or Uniroyal (making Naugahide) or farming.

I got out of there shortly after graduation and haven't gone back.

[cdw]

Hmmm. '50's in my town....there were some blacks, not a lot...not any asians that I recall. Either way, there was no segregation on Long Island. You lived there, you went to school with everyone else. I have no idea about anywhere else.