Plessy Vs. Ferguson
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Plessy Vs. Ferguson
The Civil War had finally come to and end bringing freedom along with it. However, The United states simply couldnt adjust to the fact overnight because it was now illegal. Principals and beliefs that ran skin deep in many southerners for over two hundred years would definitely not change, overnight. They were told all their lives, generation after generation, that African Americans were never to be equal amongst Whites. How would America Adjust? The whites strived to keep African Americans inferior, the law created separate but equal, causing violence hate and terror. American life will forever be changed.
The law declared freedom, south fought for slavery. No exceptions, however some southerners still held slaves illegally. This led to government involvement, but they never said they could not be discriminated. African Americans were then treated anything but equal. They were discriminated and violently tormented, looked down upon and spat at. Most of America chose nothing to do with them. The African Americans were given completely separate facilities all the way down to drinking fountains. Whites could not stand to think they would be equal one day, they strived to keep them below their feet.
One night a African American felt that he should be given equal rights, he rode in the first class section of a railcar. Later to be arrested. He then took he case to supreme court, only to be turned away. The law then stated that African Americans could be separated although equally privileged. Everything from schools to restaurants were separated, even movie entrances. The whites did anything to separate themselves from the African Americans.