"African Americans: Separate but Equal?"

"African Americans: Separate but Equal?"

The "separate but equal" policy means the segregation that has been legally sanctioned as a result of the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in the year 1896. Since then, the landscape of the United States has been changed very much and it has opened the way for the Americans of African origins to be facing legal segregation based on their race and color in the society. In America, the "Separate but equal" laws have been allowing the states to enact and pass laws that require separate facilities for different races of people based on the color. This was an attempt to inhibit the intermingling of the black Americans who had recently been freed with the white Americans. This was because the whites thought that they were superior to the blacks who had for decades been their slaves.

The “separate but equal” law has been used by the white Americans to continue with their domination of the black Americans. They have also been employed to minimize their interactions with the white people. At the time when this law was passed, the lack Americans had little or no political power at all. This resulted in the black Americans being unable to fight for their rights. It led to their rights being violated by the whites for decades. Resultantly, the black Americans were left to suffer from laws which were not only unconstitutional but also were racist. These laws are yet to be overcome. The belief that the whites are superior to the blacks and that the only status of blacks is that of a slave dates back to being centuries old. Though the civil war brought with it several results, including the abolishment of slavery, yet on many fronts, racial segregation only increased due ...