Racism in the United States has been manifested mostly among Americans of Anglo-Saxon origin against people of African, Asian, Italian, Polish, Native American, Latin American, and other immigrants in general. It is important to clarify that a religion, such as Islam, nationality, language, customs or culture does not determine a race.
Before the civil rights movement The reality was that educational, employment, housing, and economic opportunities were not equal. For example, white public schools received more money and new supplies, while black schools received as little money as possible. Another punctual and paradigmatic example, although not anecdotal and more dramatic, is the case of the black singer Bessie Smith, who was the victim of a car accident. The ambulance with the singer in it, had toured all the hospitals of the Mississippi in search of blood transfusion. In none they let her in because they were "hospitals for whites". Bessie Smith bled on the stretcher, dying as a result of this "legal" segregation This fact and many others later gave rise to the equal rights movement of blacks led by Martin Luther King.
