Segregation is the spitting of people or objects. At this time people were being segregated by skin color. They were faced with insults and unfair treatment and the harsh reality of the time. Segregation in the story is the unfairness of the white people of this time. It has affected the by not doing things that white people could do. The big effects where that they couldn’t sit on benches or at tables. They would get arrested for going into a restaurant they weren’t allowed to. They couldn’t eat at places that didn’t except them. They had to it at the back of the bus. Vivien Thomas had to deal with a lot of segregation because he was African American. Two examples from the text are that Thomas was not making enough money because he was African
