Segregation within Southern society was a way of life, layers upon layers of ignorance, supremacy and stubbornness encrusted the attitude white South towards the African-American proportion of the population. It is, however, crucial to consider the process of segregation before attempting to determine the events that led to its dismantling. It is then particularly important to define segregation in order to determine how it was constructed and what events took place to demolish it. Segregation itself contains many characteristics that lead to its wider occurrence. Many circumstances were highly significant in dismantling the deep-rooted legalized segregation of the 20th-century South. Segregation was the forced separation of different racial groups within Southern society, but during the 20th century, bursts of change blew across the South. To study how the transformation of segregation in the American South occurred, it is important to define the process of segregation. in the years 1865-1950. In doing so, we can then understand why it was important for the well-being of the South as a whole to abandon the deeply ingrained attitude linked to the separation of white and black spheres. Southern culture as a whole was protected by its own culture of segregation. Old ways of thinking were stubbornly ingrained in Southern culture, especially in 1963, when asked about segregation and the civil rights movement, Atlanta-based Chancellor AY remarked that proponents of the movement were completely illusory. "Are you stupid enough to think that you can undo, overnight, the custom and society that has prevailed for these...... middle of paper ...... Southern culture. Bibliography Secondary reading Ayers, EL, Southern Crossing: A History of the American South 1877-1906 (Oxford, 1998) p. 157-181Sklaroff, LR, Constructing GI Joe Louis: Cultural Solutions to the "Negro Problem" during World War II Nasstrom, KL, Beginning and End: Life Stories and the Periodization of the Civil Rights Movement in Journal of American HistorySokol, J., There's All Right for Me: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1975 (United States, 2006) p. William Harris, “Etiquette, Lynching and Racial Boundaries in Southern History: A Mississippi Sample,” in American Historical Review 100:2 (April 1995): 387-410. JSTORSources InternetShepard & B. Stonaker, 'Segregation' (www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/brown_v_board/segregation.htm) (March 19, 2011).FilmsAll the King's Men (1949)February 1 (2003)