" How Did Segregation Affect The Heart and Minds of Americans?"

When I hear questions like this, I automatically think of African Americans in the Deep South. I feel that this question implies to whom and where segregation had the most impact on. The way segregation affected the hearts and minds of Americans in the Deep South was just incredible. There's just not enough words to describe the way people must have felt. Imagine if you were an African American and had to live your life in fear because there are people who are not of your race trying to hurt you. Waking up everyday with fear, fear for your own life and you families lives. Some people probably didn't want to live at all if it meant living in such fear. Children scared of gangs like KKK coming to their schools to hurt them, when all they wanted to do was get a education like everybody else. What would a mother say to her child when they start asking questions like "Why can't I go past the signs that say Whites only?" or " What does the word negro mean?" - Kaitlyn