African Americans Status In 1890
There were many problems that African Americans faced in the 1890's some of which still exist in today's society. African Americans have come a long way and earned many rights but still live with the hardships that they had in the 1890's. The status of African Americans at this time in United States history was not good. Blacks had a very hard time living especially in the south.
The problems that blacks dealt with were primarily found in the south where they were not accepted. Segregation became huge across the entire south after the Supreme Court ruled that "Separate but equal" was legal in the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Everything was separate but it was almost never equal. Whites always had things better than African Americans did. Blacks could not ride in the same train cars as whites. The national government gave blacks the right to vote but southern state governments took away that right through the use of poll taxes and literacy tests.......
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