What does the tern separate but equal mean?

Answer 1

"Separate but equal" was an important topic of the mid-1900s. African Americans were not slaves of Caucasians anymore, but they were slaves to the unconstitutional law of the United States at the time. Laws that did not follow our constitution at the time rung, "separate but equal." However, life was anything but equal during the mid-1900s - the fact in itself that things were separate meant that things were unequal. Think: if people are equal, why the need to separate them?

Many whites during this time period did not approve of Jim Crow laws, but many of the same people did not speak up. In that era, people that did not follow the plan, were fired from their jobs, their friends left them, no one would speak to them, and worst of all, they (both Caucasians and African Americans) were often beaten and/or murdered. Almost all African Americans during the time felt that Jim Crow laws were unfair.