Racism in the United States

Racism in the United States traces negative attitudes and views on ethnicity and race.^[1]

A number of Americans said in 2019 Donald Trump, then-President, had made racial relationships worse.^[1]

African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, Latinos and Native Americans in the United States have said that they are victims of racism and racial profiling while in college, at work or on streets.^[2]

In 2020 and 2021, protests erupted across the United States. Puerto Rican, Central Americans and Mexicans went across the border, including unaccompanied children and minors. African American and Asian Americans were attacked.^[3]

As of July 2016, Caucasian Americans are the largest number of people. Hispanics and Latino are the largest minority population. Many African Americans live either in the Southern United States, the Midwestern United States or Western United States.

Racism In The United States Media

Racial disparities in the share of prisoners, police officers, people shot by police, and judges in the United States in the late 2010s
A group of white men pose for a 1919 photograph as they stand over the body of the Black lynching victim Will Brown before they decide to mutilate and burn it during the Omaha race riot of 1919 in Omaha, Nebraska. Photographs and postcards of lynchings were popular souvenirs in the U.S.
White tenants seeking to prevent Blacks from moving into the housing project erected this sign. Detroit, 1942.
Due to threats and violence against her, U.S. Marshals escorted 6-year-old Ruby Bridges to and from the previously whites only William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, 1960. As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their children out.
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after being arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus to a white person
Bayard Rustin (left) and Cleveland Robinson (right), organizers of the March, on August 7, 1963
The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church where nine Black church-goers, including the pastor, were killed by a white man in the 2015 Charleston church shooting. The church, founded in 1817, is the oldest AME church in the South.
Reverend Al Sharpton speaking at the Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks in August 2020
Members of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma around 1877.