During the late 1800’s to the mid 1900’s, the United States lived through a period time known as the “Jim Crow Era”, a system of government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation within our Country; individuals of the Negro/Black Race were openly frowned upon and discriminated against. There was a consensus belief that it was best for blacks and whites to live separate but equal lives, even with the majority knowing blacks were never treated equal to whites. Under Jim Crow, blacks would be subjected to serious troubles for such simple offenses as shaking a white man’s hand, or offering a white woman a light for her cigarette, because it was viewed as gesture implied intimacy. Given the deep level of constraints placed on a whole race
