Reading about the way these people were treated is hard for me to fully understand due to the time era in which I was raised. However, back then, slavery just had just recently ended. Slavery ended in the year 1863. The Plessy v. Ferguson court case took place, thirty years later (Medley, 2003). Because slavery had just recently ended, the white population still had the mentality of inferiority. Changing in an instance is, and was very hard for the whites. Thinking they were above everyone else and, never having to mix with the blacks was just a part of their culture (Lutz, 2003). In today's society because of the way we were raised, we look back at history in disgust in our decisions and cannot fully comprehend the idea of this actually
