“some one will at last arise who will champion our cause and compel the world to see that we deserve justice, as other heroes compelled it to see that we deserved freedom.”

While blacks gained freedom in the South, they hardly gained equality. Despite the Radical Republicans’ efforts at Reconstruction, many blacks in the South struggled with poverty, illiteracy, and unemployment. In the entry “racism in the south” by a black woman in 1902, the author talked about her life in the south, how she get racism from the white people Even the amendment abandons the slavery, but the society didn’t set white people and color people equally. Like what the author said in the entry, the park had the sign that no black people can enter except for the servant; and when she walked on the street, she was embarrassed by the stare of white people.

Discrimination in the South further intensified with the passage of Jim Crow laws in the 1880s. Jim Crow laws segregated many public accommodations such as trains, steamboats, streetcars, and schools, and restricted or forbade black access to other facilities, like theaters and restaurants. There are also some supreme court case can related to this situation, like Brown VS Broad of education, and plessy v. ferguson. Both cases happened for the segregation. One case happened before this article publishes and another was happened after fifty years later. During so many years, the society still with the “segregation but equal” by Jim Crow Law which tend to separate the color people and white. Colored people seem to have the same right with the white people, but actually, they still in the lower statue in the society. Colored people are not allowed attending the place which white people attend. If they tried to break the rule, they will get the law punishment. Therefore, during that time area, in every place, there are separate places for different people; even for the bathroom have different place for white people and color people. The Supreme Court upheld such segregation in its Plessy v. Ferguson decision (1896), which declared all “separate but equal” facilities to be constitutional. This decision cleared the way for decades of demoralizing discrimination against blacks.