We Who Believe in Freedom by Lea E. Williams

Author:Lea E. Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: North Carolina Office of Archives and History
Published: 2017-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

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The Birth of SNCC

In the decades after the Civil War, social customs and, later, Jim Crow laws mandated strict separation of the races. Communities throughout the South maintained separate public facilities. There were separate black schools, separate black libraries, separate YMCA and YWCA branches, separate parks and swimming pools. Blacks were prohibited from drinking at the same water fountains or using the same restrooms as whites. At train and interstate bus stations, there were segregated black waiting rooms with separate entrances. At movie theaters, blacks were restricted to seating in the balcony, nicknamed the crows’ nest. Even more belittling, some high-end department stores did not allow black customers to try on clothes; others had separate entrances for blacks and whites. The African American facilities were nearly always inferior and second rate.

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