The Disadvantaged

Those groups who have felt the sting of segregation and bigotry.

Blacks/African Americans Black slavery in the

United States. Segregation based on

race/color is legal after Plessy v. Ferguson.

What are some example of this segregation?

What is the result of this segregation?

The Japanese The Japanese have felt

the sting of oppression by the American government.

During WWII they were imprisoned in concentration camps for fear they might be spies for the Japanese Empire.

Why no Germans?

Native Americans

-Indian Removal Act

-Broken Treaties

-Sand Creek

Chinese Used by big business

to help expand the industrial might of the United States, because they were cheap labor.

Cast aside when the job was finished.

Only immigrant group not permitted admittance to the US by the federal government.

Irish Exploited for their labor this group was treated as

sub-human by many other groups of Americans. Also feared because of their ardent belief in

Catholicism.

Hispanics The modern day

scapegoat for many of the problems of America.

Many have and will continue to be asked to come to America

Questions Each of these groups have been denied

their rights in a variety of ways from time to time. Each of these groups have now and are continuing to gain equality in the United States.

How did they gain their rights? Why and how are the people in the back

an example of this struggle?