Abstract
Race has always been an important issue in the United States. A lot of changes occurred since the 13th amendment of 1865 abolishing slavery. The 14th amendment in 1868 granted double citizenship to every Americans. In 1870, the 15th amendment gave freedmen the right to vote. The strong resistance in the South prevented black people to vote for a very long time. During the Second World War, the FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Committees) was in charge of making sure that the contracts that AA signed in the defense industry were not discriminatory.
Then, the decision of the Supreme Court Brown Vs Board of education put an end to the principle of «separate but equal», but there were still discrimination's in the access to the right to vote and in public areas. The most important pieces of legislation trying to resolve those problems were the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. We can see that the issues of race and racism shape the American society, the American law, the American social events, etc. The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act did not put an end to the issue, from the seventies until today, the aim has been to apply those acts and to fight against discrimination. We will see that during the seventies, race was an issue in education.
