Restaurants - "It shall be unlawful to run a restaurant in the city, at which white and coloured people are served in the same room, unless such while and coloured persons are separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment." (Alabama law) Beer and Wine - "All persons licensed to conduct the business of selling beer or wine...shall serve either white people exclusively or coloured people exclusively and shall not sell to two races within the same room at any time." (Georgia law) Baseball - "It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play baseball on any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a playground devoted to the Negro race, and it shall be unlawful for any amateur coloured baseball team to play baseball in any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of any playground devoted to the white race." (Georgia law) Burial - "The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any coloured persons upon ground set apart or used for the burial of white persons." (Georgia law) Libraries - "The state librarian is directed to fit up and maintain a separate place for the use of the coloured people who may come to the library for the purpose of reading books or magazines." (North Carolina law) Teaching - "Any instructor who shall teach in any school, college or institution where members of the white and coloured races are received and enrolled as pupils for instruction shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be fined..." (Oklahoma law) Schools - "The Board of Education shall provide schools of two kinds; those for white children and those for coloured children." (Texas law) Prison - "The warden shall see that the white convicts shall have separate apartments for both eating and sleeping from the negro convicts." (Mississippi law) Source 6 1896 segregation and the Jim Crow laws became normal in the USA. Black people had to put up with inferior conditions in schools, bus and railroad services, hotels, hospitals, theatres and wages. Segregation, which means the separation of people according to their race, had become respectable in the USA. The system of segregation did not change until 1954. Source 7 – When black protesters complained to President Wilson in 1916 about segregation in toilets and eating facilities in Federal government offices, and Jim Crow laws being used to make sure that black men only got the lowest paid jobs, President Woodrow Wilson said:
Restaurants - "It shall be unlawful to run a restaurant in the city, at which white and coloured people are served in the same room, unless such while and coloured persons are separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment." (Alabama law) Beer and Wine - "All persons licensed to conduct the business of selling beer or wine...shall serve either white people exclusively or coloured people exclusively and shall not sell to two races within the same room at any time." (Georgia law) Baseball - "It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play baseball on any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a playground devoted to the Negro race, and it shall be unlawful for any amateur coloured baseball team to play baseball in any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of any playground devoted to the white race." (Georgia law) Burial - "The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any coloured persons upon ground set apart or used for the burial of white persons." (Georgia law) Libraries - "The state librarian is directed to fit up and maintain a separate place for the use of the coloured people who may come to the library for the purpose of reading books or magazines." (North Carolina law) Teaching - "Any instructor who shall teach in any school, college or institution where members of the white and coloured races are received and enrolled as pupils for instruction shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be fined..." (Oklahoma law) Schools - "The Board of Education shall provide schools of two kinds; those for white children and those for coloured children." (Texas law) Prison - "The warden shall see that the white convicts shall have separate apartments for both eating and sleeping from the negro convicts." (Mississippi law) Source 6 1896 segregation and the Jim Crow laws became normal in the USA. Black people had to put up with inferior conditions in schools, bus and railroad services, hotels, hospitals, theatres and wages. Segregation, which means the separation of people according to their race, had become respectable in the USA. The system of segregation did not change until 1954. Source 7 – When black protesters complained to President Wilson in 1916 about segregation in toilets and eating facilities in Federal government offices, and Jim Crow laws being used to make sure that black men only got the lowest paid jobs, President Woodrow Wilson said:
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