African Americans were treated very unfairly during the 1890s and the 1990s. What would happen if people called you disgusting names to your face, threaten to stab you, and call the police for calling them mean, just because of your skin color? That’s what happened to almost all the “Black” people in the time of segregation. The court decided that the two racial lines would be “separate but equal”, but this ended up turning into “separate but rarely equal.” Restaurants, parking lots, drinking fountains, etc., were divided into three sections: blacks only, whites only, and colored/ both. Whites had more rights than Blacks. They were allowed to beat up a black person and get away with it. When buying shoes, a white person was allowed to try on
