Me and Devlin's piece gives an example of how colored people, even though they had been liberated from slavery, were still not free to do all that they wanted to do. Most of the time, Jim Crow laws were simply separating blacks from whites by makings separate fixtures, rooms, and even buildings for colored people. There were colored drinking fountains, colored schools, colored waiting rooms (which is what is what is shown in this piece), colored train cars, colored restrooms, and more ridiculous things, and often, the colored versions of these everyday things were in much worse repair than the white ones (which is why the colored waiting room in the picture has no seats). Many shops also did not serve colored people, so it was very difficult to get good quality goods, such as clothing (which is why the person sitting on the floor in the colored waiting room is wearing rags), and many people would not give colored people good jobs, so they mostly ended up working for the same plantation owners who had kept them as slaves just a few years earlier, except that they got a small amount of pay, and didn't get whipped all the time. And some of these Jim Crow laws weren't even restricted to the South. Even in the North, they had colored drinking fountains and other ridiculous things.
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