Racial Inequality In The United States: Plessy Vs. Ferguson

Since the colonies were created in 1607, African-Americans were seen as property rather than human beings like everyone else. This is what initially established slavery and when that was ended on December 6th, 1865 it then proceeded to racial inequality. Racial Inequality has been recorded by having legal slavery, slave codes, allowing Jim Crow laws, and unjust Supreme Court cases such as Plessy Vs. Ferguson. The countless inequalities after slavery abruptly began in 1896 when segregation was labeled as legal when the ruling of Plessy vs. Ferguson which was when Homer Plessy sat in the wrong designated section for his race. When Reconstruction ended it was promised by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments that slavery would be abolished, being a free citizen in the United States, and having the right to vote. Although these things were granted there were many loop holes that the U.S Democracy didn’t include. Though colored people were given the right to voted there were clauses which made it virtually impossible such as the grandfather clause, and a literacy test. The grandfather clause
These laws were set in motion in 1876 and it’s role was to keep colored and caucasians separate but equal but that was not the case. Everything was separated to keep from interfering with one another such as bathrooms, schools, churches, water fountains, and even movie complexes. “A black male could not offer his hand (to shake hands) with a white male because it implied being socially equal. Obviously, a black male could not offer his hand or any other part of his body to a white woman, because he risked being accused of rape.” (Ferris State U) This quote stated above was one of the many Jim Crow laws that were just immoral unjust and it evens mentions that if a black man shook hands with a white man would imply being socially equal which proves that racial inequality was alive and