Even though the Amendments enacted after the American Civil War signified a big step to put a halt on racial discrimination against black people (The 13th, the 14th, and the 15th), The U.S. would still have a long way to go before putting an actual stop on discrimination, because a few years later after these amendments were enacted, there were also enacted a series of laws that promoted racial segregation and discrimination in the United States, called the Jim Crow laws.
These laws prohibited African American to attend and be in certain places where White people were and required them to use separate facilities instead. Racial segregation was common in neighborhoods, restrooms, building entrances, elevators, cemeteries, amusement-park, cashier windows, churches, hospitals, jails, public schools, public park, etc. And even though these facilities were supposed to be "equal" for both races, they were never equal as the black's facilities were inferior, poor and mediocre.
