Segregation within Southern society was a way of life, layer upon layer of ignorance, supremacy and stubbornness encrusted the Southern white attitude towards the African-American proportion of the population. It is crucial, however, to consider the process of segregation before attempting to determine the events that will lead to its dismantling. It is then of particular significance that segregation is defined to resolve how it was built and what events occurred to demolish it. Segregation itself contains many characteristics that lead to its broader appearance. Many circumstances were highly significant for the dismantling of legalized segregation, which was deeply rooted in the South of the twentieth century. Segregation was the forced separation of different racial groups within Southern society, however during the 20th century gusts of change spread throughout the South. To investigate how the transformation of segregation occurred in the American South, 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 rooted attitude linked to the separation of the black and white spheres. Southern culture as a whole was protected by its own entrenched culture of segregation. Old ways of thinking were stubbornly embedded in Southern culture, this is especially demonstrated in 1963 when, when questioned about segregation and the civil rights movement, Atlanta-based Chancellor AY observed that supporters of the movement were completely disillusioned. “You are so foolish as to think that you can undo, overnight, the customs and society that have prevailed for these… middle of the paper… Southern culture. Bibliography Secondary Readings Ayers, E. L., Southern Crossing: A History of the American South 1877-1906 (Oxford, 1998) p. 157-181Sklaroff, L.R., Constructing GI Joe Louis: Cultural Soloutions to the “negro problem” during World War II Asstrom, K.L., Beginnings and Ends: Life Stories and the Periodization of the Civil Rights Movement in the Journal of American History Sokol , J., There's Anything Goes for Me: Southern Whites in the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1975 (USA, 2006) p.William Harris, "Etiquette, Lynching and Racial Boundaries in Southern History: A Mississippi Example", in American Historical Review 100:2 (April 1995): 387-410. JSTORInternet SourcesShepard & B. Stonaker, 'Segregation' (www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/brown_v_board/segregation.htm) (March 19, 2011).FilmAll the King's Men (1949)February 1 (2003)